polyethylene terephthalate en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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Etymology
From polyethylene + terephthalate.
Meanings
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A thermoplastic resin of the polyester family used particularly in the manufacture of plastic bottles (PET) and fabrics (Terylene).
For eons, the debris has contained the same things — flecks from plant and animal carcasses, feces, mucus, dust, microbes, viruses — and transported the ocean’s carbon to be stored on the seafloor. Increasingly, however, marine snowfall is being infiltrated by microplastics: fibers and fragments of polyamide, polyethylene and polyethylene terephthalate. And this fauxfall appears to be altering our planet’s ancient cooling process.
2022 April 3, Sabrina Imbler, “In the Ocean, It’s Snowing Microplastics”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 05 Apr 2022:An effort was made to fit the flexible tube at least 3 mm deep onto the vasculature; (2) for the remaining systems, 3D-printed polyethylene terephthalate (PET) reservoir blocks were manufactured by PrintPlace using FDM technology. The additively manufactured PET reservoir blocks were previously applied and proven to effectively circulate the agent through the healing network [6].
2022 May 9, Eleni Tsangouri et al., “Reservoir-Vascular Tubes Network for Self-Healing Concrete: Performance Analysis by Acoustic Emission, Digital Image Correlation and Ultrasound Velocity”, in Applied Sciences, volume 12, number 10, →DOI, archived from the original on 18 Apr 2025:
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Synonyms
PET-E · PETE · PET · PETP · PET-P
Translations (21)
ru ПЭТ (type of polyester) · fr polyéthylène téréphtalate (type of polyester) · he פוליאתילן טרפתאלט (type of polyester) · el τερεφθαλικό πολυαιθυλένιο (type of polyester) · ja ポリエチレンテレフタラート (type of polyester) · ru полиэтиле́нтерефтала́т (type of polyester) · es tereftalato de polietileno (type of polyester) · es politereftalato de etileno (type of polyester) · ja PET (type of polyester) · ca politereftalat d'etilè (type of polyester) · fr polytéréphtalate d'éthylène (type of polyester) · ru ПЭТФ (type of polyester) · it polietilene tereftalato (type of polyester) · cmn 聚對苯二甲酸乙二酯 /聚对苯二甲酸乙二酯 (type of polyester) · de Polyethylenterephthalat (type of polyester) · tr polietilen tereftalat (type of polyester) · fr PET (type of polyester) · nl polyethyleentereftalaat (type of polyester) · fi polyetyleenitereftalaatti (type of polyester) · pl politereftalan etylenu (type of polyester) · ko 폴리에틸렌 테레프탈레이트 (type of polyester)