Peta or PETA may refer to:
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Pembela Tanah Air
''Pembela Tanah Air'' (abbreviated PETA; ) or was an Indonesian volunteer army established on 3 October 1943 in Indonesia by the occupying Japanese. The Japanese intended PETA to assist their forces in opposing a possible invasion by the Allies ...
, a militia established by the occupying Japanese in Indonesia in 1943
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People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA; , stylized as PeTA) is an American animal rights nonprofit organization based in Norfolk, Virginia, and led by Ingrid Newkirk, its international president. PETA reports that PETA entities hav ...
, an American animal rights organization
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People Eating Tasty Animals
''People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals v. Doughney'', 263 F.3d 359 (4th Cir. 2001), was an important Internet domain trademark infringement decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. The ruling became an early ...
, an organization mocking the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals' stance on vegetarianism
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Philippine Educational Theater Association
The Philippine Educational Theater Association (PETA) is a theatrical association of artists and educators. It is the UNESCO-International Theater Institute Center in the Philippines. It is a non-profit, non-stock, non-governmental, and a regist ...
, a Philippine theatrical association
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Pulse Ejector Thrust Augmentor A Pulse Ejector Thrust Augmentor or PETA is a proprietary pulse jet engine developed by Boeing.
The Boeing PETA design embeds the pulse jet inside a thrust augmenting duct which entrains surrounding air into the exhaust stream. This entrained air i ...
, a type of jet engine
People
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Peta (given name) Peta is a feminine given name. Notable individual with this name include:
People Women
* Peta Bala'c (born 1953), English football goalkeeper
* Peta Brady (born 1972), Australian actress
* Peta Buscombe, Baroness Buscombe (born 1954), English barr ...
, including a list of people and fictional characters with the name
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Tomasz Peta
Tomasz Bernard Peta (russian: Томаш Бернард Пэта; born on 20 August 1951 in Inowrocław, Poland) is the current Catholic Archbishop of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Saint Mary in the city of Astana, and the President of the Bisho ...
(born 1951), Roman Catholic Archbishop of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Saint Mary in Astana, Kazakhstan
Places
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Peta, Greece
Peta ( el, Πέτα) is a town and a former municipality in the Arta regional unit, Epirus, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Nikolaos Skoufas, of which it is the seat and a municipal unit. The municipa ...
, a town
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Peţa River, a river in Romania
Other uses
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peta-
A metric prefix is a unit prefix that precedes a basic unit of measure to indicate a multiple or submultiple of the unit. All metric prefixes used today are decadic. Each prefix has a unique symbol that is prepended to any unit symbol. The pre ...
, a metric prefix denoting a factor of 10
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Battle of Peta
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Peta (cat)
Manninagh KateDhu, commonly known as Peta (1963/64 – early 1980), was the Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office of the United Kingdom government between 1964 and , and was the first female cat in that role. She became the replacement of Peter III, ...
, the unofficial Chief Mouser to the UK Cabinet Office 1964-78
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Mysore peta, a type of Indian royal attire
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Pentaerythritol tetraacrylate
Pentaerythritol tetraacrylate (PETA or sometimes PETTA,PETRA) is an organic compound. It is a tetrafunctional acrylate ester used as a monomer in the manufacture of polymers. As it is a polymerizable acrylate monomer it is nearly always supplie ...
, an organic chemical
See also
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Petta (disambiguation)
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Pettah (disambiguation)
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Pita (disambiguation)
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