Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1956 as an abbreviation of physical education (see physical).
Wiktionary
n. The seventeenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
WordNet
n. the 17th letter of the Hebrew alphabet
Gazetteer
Wikipedia
Pe may refer to:
Letters:
- Pe (Cyrillic), a letter (П) in the Cyrillic alphabet
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Pe (letter), a letter (פ ,ف, etc.) in several Semitic alphabets
- Pe (Persian), this letter (پ) in the Arabic alphabet
In mathematics, science, and technology:
- Weierstrass p (also called "pe"), a mathematical letter (℘) used in Weierstrass's elliptic functions and power sets
- Péclet number (abbreviated "Pe."), a dimensionless number used in physics
- Pe (text editor), a text editor for BeOS
- Pulmonary emphysema, a lung disease
- Pulmonary embolism
- Portable Executable, a Microsoft Windows executable file format
Places:
- Pe, Tibet, a town on the Yarlung Tsangpo River
- Pe, one of two cities which merged into Buto
- .pe, the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Peru
- Prince Edward Island, Canada (postal abbreviation PE)
Pe is the seventeenth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician Pē , Hebrew Pē , Aramaic Pē , Syriac Pē ܦ, and Arabic (in abjadi order) and also Persian .
The original sound value is a voiceless bilabial plosive: ; it retains this value in most Semitic languages except for Arabic, which having lost now uses it to render a voiceless labiodental fricative .
The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek Pi (Π), Latin P, and Cyrillic П.
Pe (П п; italics: П п) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.
It commonly represents the unaspirated voiceless bilabial plosive , like the pronunciation of in "spin".
Pe, short for Programmer’s Editor, is an open source text editor for the Be Operating System (BeOS), Haiku and other BeOS-like operating systems. It is targeted towards source-code editing, and features syntax highlighting for a large number of programming languages. It also works as a basic source-level HTML editor, with some HTML auto-completion support, automatic updating of files included within other files, and direct FTP integration. It is conceptually based on the Macintosh Programmer's Workshop and BBEdit, both of which are editing programs for the Mac OS.
Pe was written by the Dutch programmer Maarten Hekkelman, who also wrote BDB, the source-level debugger for the BeOS, and the spreadsheet Sum-It!, first for classic Mac OS and later BeOS where it was packaged by Beatware as half of BeBasics; a lightweight office suite, which was also open-sourced.
Pe was used to write the BeOS Bible and possible other similar-era Scot Hacker works, as well as In the Beginning... Was the Command Line by Neal Stephenson; both of which works mention it.
Pe is a letter in the Perso-Arabic alphabet used for .
It is used in Persian and Kurdish and other Iranian languages, Uyghur, Urdu, Sindhi and Turkic languages (before adoption of Latin/Cyrillic script) but not in Arabic, where it is usually substituted by the letter bāʼ .
But it is sometimes used in some Arabic dialects for the transliteration of foreign words.
Usage examples of "pe".
PETA, better known as People for the Unethical Treatment of Humans, has joined the Dogs of Hate in bashing religion.
Its capacity was most meaningfully expressed not in giga-, tera-, peta-, exa-, or even zettabytes, but in yottabytes, or sextillions of bytes.
From where she was standing, Peta could hear her Rasta friend Jimmy and his buddies playing soca on the steel drums that lined the fringes of Tanteen Park, which lay directly below her.
Peta could hear her Rasta friend Jimmy and his buddies playing soca on the steel drums that lined the fringes of Tanteen Park, which lay directly below her.
Peta on to questioning Zoehrer and any other of the lawyers who might give us some light on why Brame was done in.
Gimmel, Dalet, He, Waw, Zain, Het, Tet, Jod, Kaf, Lamed, Mem, Nun, Samech, Ajin, Pe, Cade, Qof, Resz, Szin i Taw.
Great Danes, Sheba and Maverick, greeted them ebulliently as they clambered on board, though Peta knew that the animals would not be so friendly were their master not in the group.
The nutcases at PETA would chain themselves to the gates of our military bases, protesting the fact that bombs hurt wildlife and their natural habitat.
He was as surprised as Clements at his reaction to Peta Smith's death.
She'd spent eight or nine years growing up amongst 'em, and it was only after she'd been initiated as a full-grown Comanche woman that the distinguished war chief Peta Nocona courted her fair and proper, playing his nose flute at her and reciting all the wondrous coups he counted.
I remember because you borrowed a pad from me after PE, and then you ate two whole packs of Yodels at lunch.