English
Etymology
From polyethylene + terephthalate.
Pronunciation
Noun
polyethylene terephthalate
- (organic chemistry) A thermoplastic resin of the polyester family used particularly in the manufacture of plastic bottles (PET) and fabrics (Terylene).
- Synonyms: (initialisms) PET, PET-E, PETE, PET-P, PETP
- Hypernym: polyester
- Near-synonym: ♳
2022 April 3, Sabrina Imbler, “In the Ocean, It’s Snowing Microplastics”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN, archived from the original on 5 April 2022: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.
Derived terms
Translations
type of polyester
- Arabic: please add this translation if you can
- Armenian: please add this translation if you can
- Catalan: politereftalat d'etilè m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 聚對苯二甲酸乙二酯 / 聚对苯二甲酸乙二酯 (jùduìběn èrjiǎsuān yǐ'èrzhǐ)
- Dutch: polyethyleentereftalaat n
- Finnish: polyetyleenitereftalaatti
- French: polytéréphtalate d'éthylène (fr) m, PET (fr) m, polyéthylène téréphtalate
- German: Polyethylenterephthalat (de) n
- Greek: please add this translation if you can
- Hebrew: פוליאתילן טרפתאלט m (polietilén tereftalát)
- Italian: polietilene tereftalato m
- Japanese: ポリエチレンテレフタラート (ja) (poriechiren terefutarāto), PET (ja) (PET)
- Korean: 폴리에틸렌 테레프탈레이트 (pollietillen terepeutalleiteu)
- Russian: полиэтиле́нтерефтала́т (ru) m (polietiléntereftalát), ПЭТФ m (PETF), ПЭТ (ru) m (PET)
- Spanish: tereftalato de polietileno m, politereftalato de etileno m
- Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Turkish: polietilen tereftalat
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