PE

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. Initialism of Prince Edward Island: a province of Canada.
  2. Initialism of Port Elizabeth: a city in South Africa.
  3. Initialism of Portable Edition (usually used for a software version).
  4. Initialism of Preinstallation Environment.
  5. Initialism of Portable Executable (executable file format used by modern versions of Microsoft Windows).
  6. Abbreviation of Pernambuco: a state of Brazil.
  7. Abbreviation of Highland Papua: a province of Indonesia.
noun
  1. Initialism of professional engineer.
  2. Initialism of physical education.
  3. Initialism of preliminary examination.
  4. Initialism of protective earthing.
  5. Initialism of polyethylene.
  6. Initialism of polyether.
  7. Initialism of pulmonary embolism.
  8. Initialism of premature ejaculation.
  9. Initialism of private equity.
  10. Initialism of permanent establishment.
noun
  1. The seventeenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew פ, Syriac ܦ, and others; Arabic has the analog faa).
noun
  1. The name of the Cyrillic script letter П / п.
name
  1. Alternative form of Pi.
name
  1. A surname.

Pronunciation

pē′ē′ /ˌpiːˈʔiː/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-PE.wav /ˌpiˈʔi/ /peɪ/

Word forms

PE PEs pei pey

Etymology

From Hebrew פֵּא (pê), from Proto-Semitic *pay- (“mouth”). Doublet of pi.

Related words

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