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Meaning of PE | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2
ˌpiːˈʔiː

Definitions

  1. A surname.
  2. Initialism of Prince Edward Island: a province of Canada.
  3. Initialism of professional engineer.
  4. The seventeenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew פ, Syriac ܦ, and others; Arabic has the analog faa).
  5. The name of the Cyrillic script letter П / п.
  6. Initialism of Port Elizabeth: a city in South Africa.
  7. Initialism of physical education.
  8. Initialism of Portable Edition (usually used for a software version).
  9. Initialism of preliminary examination.
  10. Initialism of Preinstallation Environment.
  11. Initialism of protective earthing.
  12. Initialism of Portable Executable (executable file format used by modern versions of Microsoft Windows).
  13. Initialism of polyethylene.
  14. Abbreviation of Pernambuco: a state of Brazil.
  15. Initialism of polyether.
  16. Abbreviation of Highland Papua: a province of Indonesia.
  17. Initialism of pulmonary embolism.
  18. Initialism of premature ejaculation.
  19. Initialism of private equity.
  20. Initialism of permanent establishment.

Equivalents

Català pe
Español peí
Suomi liikka pe
Français pe
עברית פ״א
Italiano PE
Kurdî
Português
Svenska idrott
Українська фізра

Examples

“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 […]”
“The PE industry, which runs funds that can invest outside public markets, has trillions of dollars in assets under management.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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