Het or HET may refer to:

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Hall-effect thruster In spacecraft propulsion, a Hall-effect thruster (HET) is a type of ion thruster in which the propellant is accelerated by an electric field. Hall-effect thrusters (based on the discovery by Edwin Hall) are sometimes referred to as Hall thruste ...

, a type of ion thruster used for spacecraft propulsion * Heavy Equipment Transporter, a vehicle in the US Army's

Heavy Equipment Transport System Heavy Equipment Transporter System (HETS) is the name of a U.S. Army logistics vehicle transport system, the primary purpose of which is to transport the M1 Abrams tank. It is also used to transport, deploy, and evacuate armored personnel carrie ...

Hobby–Eberly Telescope The Hobby–Eberly Telescope (HET) is a telescope located at the McDonald Observatory in Davis Mountains, Texas. The Hobby–Eberly Telescope is one of the largest optical telescopes in the world. It combines a number of features that differe ...

, an instrument at the University of Texas McDonald Observatory *

Human enhancement Human enhancement is the natural, artificial, or technological alteration of the human body in order to enhance physical or mental capabilities. Technologies Existing technologies Three forms of human enhancement currently exist: reproductive ...

Technologies, devices for enhancing the abilities of human beings * Heterozygote, a diploid organism with differing alleles at a genetic locus; see

zygosity Zygosity (the noun, zygote, is from the Greek "yoked," from "yoke") () is the degree to which both copies of a chromosome or gene have the same genetic sequence. In other words, it is the degree of similarity of the alleles in an organism. Mos ...

* Hexaethyl tetraphosphate, in chemistry * HET acid, alternate term for

Chlorendic acid Chlorendic acid, or 1,4,5,6,7,7-hexachlorobicyclo .2.1hept-5-ene-2,3-dicarboxylic acid, is a chlorinated carboxylic acid used in the synthesis of some flame retardants and polymers. It is a common breakdown product of several organochlorine insecti ...

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Hét Hét is a village in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County in northeastern Hungary Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning much of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the ...

, a village in Hungary *

Het peoples Het is the term used by Thomas Falkner, an English Jesuit, at the end of the 18th century for various nomadic groups from the and Patagonia, including the so-called and northern Tehuelches, but excluding the Mapuche (speakers of Mapudungun). ...

, or their language *

Heterosexuality Heterosexuality is romantic attraction, sexual attraction, or Human sexual activity, sexual behavior between people of the opposite sex or gender. As a sexual orientation, heterosexuality is "an enduring pattern of emotional, romantic, and/or ...

, sexual attraction to the opposite sex * ''HighEnd Teen'' (2008–2017), a former Indonesian magazine *

Historical Enquiries Team The Historical Enquiries Team was a unit of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) set up in September 2005 to investigate the 3,269 unsolved murders committed during the Troubles, specifically between 1968 and 1998. It was wound up in S ...

(2005–2014), a former unit of the Police Service of Northern Ireland *

Holocaust Educational Trust The Holocaust Educational Trust (HET) is a British charity, based in London, whose aim is to "educate young people of every background about The Holocaust and the important lessons to be learned for today." One of the Trust's main achievements ...

, a British charity * HET, IATA code for

Hohhot Baita International Airport Hohhot Baita International Airport is an international airport serving Hohhot, the capital of Inner Mongolia, China. It is the largest airport in Inner Mongolia and lies east of downtown Hohhot. Its name Baita, meaning White Pagoda, derives ...

, in Inner Mongolia, China * HET, former ticker symbol for Harrah's Entertainment, later renamed

Caesars Entertainment Corporation Harrah's Entertainment (later named Caesars Entertainment Corporation, previously The Promus Companies) was an American casino and hotel company founded in Reno, Nevada, and based in Paradise, Nevada, that operated over 50 properties and seven g ...

, an American hotel and casino corporation * HET, initialism for ''Hoofdklasse, Eerste klasse, Tweede klasse'', the three divisions of

Football in the Netherlands Football is the most popular sport in the Netherlands. Association football, Football was introduced to the Netherlands by Pim Mulier in the 19th century when in 1879, at the age of 14, he founded Koninklijke HFC, Haarlemsche Football Club. Ov ...

Heth Heth, sometimes written Chet or Ḥet, is the eighth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician ''ḥēt'' 𐤇, Hebrew ''ḥēt'' , Aramaic ''ḥēṯ'' 𐡇, Syriac ''ḥēṯ'' ܚ, and Arabic ''ḥāʾ'' . It is also related to ...

, a letter of many Semitic alphabets *Cyrillic spelling of the Russian word for no, pronounced "Nyet" *HET, 80s Swiss Synthpunk band

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