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Definition of PET noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

PET

noun [uncountable]
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  1.  
    /ˌpiː iː ˈtiː/
     
    /ˌpiː iː ˈtiː/
     an artificial substance used to make materials for packaging food, including plastic drinks bottles (the abbreviation for ‘polyethylene terephthalate’) Topics The environmentc2
  2.  
    /pet/
     
    /pet/
     (medical) a process that produces an image of your brain or of another part inside your body (the abbreviation for ‘positron emission tomography’)
    • a PET scan
  3.  
    /pet/
     
    /pet/
     a British test, now called ‘B1 Preliminary’, that measures a person’s ability to speak and write English as a foreign language at an intermediate level (the abbreviation for ‘Preliminary English Test’)
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