PED

Acronyms

• Performance-enhancing drugs a substance designed to enhance the metabolism of the human body in certain medical situations
• Platform edge doors, another term for Platform screen doors
• Price elasticity of demand in economics
• PIN Entry Device, an automated teller machine or point of sale terminal that requires a PIN to complete a transaction
• Pressure Equipment Directive, a set of standards for the design and manufacture of pressure equipment in the European Union
• Portable Electronic Device
• Post EYP Depression Unexplainable huge feeling of absence of an undefinable something that an EYPer gets right after a Session is over. Can only be cured by attending another session or EYP-related event.

Other

• A soil ped - a unit of soil structure such as an aggregate, crumb, prism, block, or granule, formed by natural processes. (See soil structure)
• A word component of Latin origin meaning "foot"
• USA spelling (UK "paed") of a word component of Greek origin meaning "child"