PEP

PEP may refer to:

In computing:

• Packetized Ensemble Protocol, used by Telebit modems
• PEP tool, a programming environment based on Petri nets
• Personal Eventing Protocol, a protocol using the XMPP publish-subscribe protocol to broadcast state change events associated with an instant messaging and presence account
• pretty Easy privacy (pEp), a project for comprehensive encryption
• Python Enhancement Proposal, a public design document for the Python programming language
• Packet Exchange Protocol, a networking protocol from Xerox
• Performance Enhancing Proxy, mechanisms to improve end-to-end TCP performance
• Policy Enforcement Point, interference point for access control e.g. a web agent

In organizations:

• Provincial Emergency Program, the emergency preparedness program in the Province of British Columbia, Canada
• The consortium for the Promotion of European Passive Houses
• Political and Economic Planning, a British think tank formed in 1931
• Politically exposed person, a Significant Political Figure
• Promoting Enduring Peace
• Propellants, Explosives, Pyrotechnics, a peer-reviewed chemistry journal
• Principals, Equality and Professionalism in Films[1]

In biology and medicine:

• Polymorphic eruption of pregnancy, British term for condition of pruritic urticarial papules and plaques of pregnancy
• Post-exposure prophylaxis, a method of disease prevention and treatment
• Phosphoenolpyruvic acid, a biochemical compound
• Pre ejection period, as measure for the inotropic status of the heart in impedance cardiography
• Positive expiratory pressure or positive airway pressure, a method of respiratory ventilation in the treatment of sleep apnea
• Protein Electrophoresis

Other:

• PEP, a particle experiment that took place in the 1980s at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center.
• PEP-II, the follow up to the PEP experiment at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center.
• Peak envelope power, a measure of radio transmitter signal strength
• Pairwise error probability, a measure of digital communication error probability
• Peppermint, particularly in connection with drinks
• Personal Equity Plan, a form of tax-privileged investment account in the UK
• Personal Exercise Plan, a plan to improve a health or skill related component of fitness
• Passaporte Electrónico Português, a biometric Portuguese passport
• Primary Entry Point, a distributor of a nationwide Emergency Alert System alert
• Primate Equilibrium Platform, a device used in animal experimentation and training
• Pulsed Energy Projectile, a type of non-lethal weapon employing laser pulses
• Politically exposed person, a prominent political figure or close relative at risk for involvement in corruption
• PepsiCo, uses PEP as its NYSE symbol
• Private equity partnership
• Programme Evaluation Procedure
• Project Execution Plan
• Pauli exclusion principle

See also:

• Pep (disambiguation)