Pe
name, noun ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 1 Initialism of professional engineer. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
- 2 The seventeenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew פ, Syriac ܦ, and others; Arabic has the analog faa).
- 3 The name of the Cyrillic script letter П / п.
- 4 the 17th letter of the Hebrew alphabet wordnet
- 5 Initialism of physical education. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
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- 6 Initialism of preliminary examination. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
- 7 Initialism of protective earthing. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
- 8 Initialism of polyethylene. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
- 9 Initialism of polyether. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
- 10 Initialism of pulmonary embolism. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
- 11 Initialism of premature ejaculation. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
- 12 Initialism of private equity. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
"The PE industry, which runs funds that can invest outside public markets, has trillions of dollars in assets under management."
- 13 Initialism of permanent establishment. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
- 1 Initialism of Prince Edward Island: a province of Canada. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable, usually
- 2 Alternative form of Pi. alt-of, alternative, obsolete
- 3 A surname.
- 4 Initialism of Port Elizabeth: a city in South Africa. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable, usually
- 5 Initialism of Portable Edition (usually used for a software version). abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable, usually
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- 6 Initialism of Preinstallation Environment. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable, usually
- 7 Initialism of Portable Executable (executable file format used by modern versions of Microsoft Windows). abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable, usually
"In ELF executables, there aren't a whole lot of code caves (such as in the PE format), so you are not likely to be able to shove more than just a meager amount of shellcode into existing code slots […]"
- 8 Abbreviation of Pernambuco: a state of Brazil. abbreviation, alt-of, uncountable, usually
- 9 Abbreviation of Highland Papua: a province of Indonesia. abbreviation, alt-of, uncountable, usually
Example
More examples"I injured myself during PE class."
Etymology
From Hebrew פֵּא (pê), from Proto-Semitic *pay- (“mouth”). Doublet of pi.
From an idiosyncratic romanization of Chinese 郫 (pí)縣 /县 (Píxiàn).
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.