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PED

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PED, Ped-, or ped may refer to:

Abbreviations

  • Parliamentary estates directorate, the body responsible for the buildings and estate of the Palace of Westminster
  • Performance-enhancing drugs, substances designed to enhance the metabolism of the human body in certain medical situations
  • Personal emergency device, a one-way text paging device used in the mining industry
  • Pipeline embolization device, a braided stent used for the treatment of brain aneurysms
  • Platform edge door, another term for a platform screen door
  • Porcine epidemic diarrhoea
  • Pressure Equipment Directive, a set of standards for the design and manufacture of pressure equipment in the European Union
  • Price elasticity of demand, in economics
  • (S)-1-phenylethanol dehydrogenase, an enzyme
  • Phazon Enhancement Device, a fictional apparatus in the science fiction video game Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
  • PIN entry device (see PIN pad)

Codes

Other uses

  • An English prefix of Greek origin, meaning "child"
  • An English prefix of Latin origin, meaning "foot"
  • Ped, a unit of soil structure such as an aggregate, crumb, prism, block, or granule, formed by natural processes
  • Pedal Mark 1.svg, a musical symbol indicating use of the sustain pedal on a piano or other instrument so equipped
  • Programmer's EDitor, a screen-oriented text editor from Norsk Data

See also

  • Pedestal (disambiguation)
  • Pedestrian (disambiguation)
  • Pedo (disambiguation), various meanings, most prominently as a prefix
  • All pages with titles beginning with PED
  • All pages with titles containing ped
  • Pes (disambiguation)
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