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FET

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  1. Banking. federal estate tax.
  2. Electronics. field-effect transistor.
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feti-

  1. a combining form representing fetus or fetal in compound words: fetoscope.
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Also especially before a vowel, fet-, feto-.

F.E.T.

  1. Federal Excise Tax.
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Examples from the Web for fet

Historical Examples

  • The pro- fyte of the dede / or the commoditie may be fet at the circumstaunce of it.

    The Art or Crafte of Rhetoryke

    Leonard Cox

  • Hassard, "fet not hassard nor rioter" (IP,320,c); so in original.

  • It is found also in the dative singular (fet), for it too goes back to an older foti.

    Language

    Edward Sapir

  • The fot: fet type of plural secured but a momentary foothold.

    Language

    Edward Sapir

  • It was at Fet's, at Stepanovka, that my father and Turgenieff quarreled.

British Dictionary definitions for fet

FET

abbreviation for
  1. field-effect transistor
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Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Word Origin and History for fet

v.

"to fetch," Old English fetian "to bring near, fetch, obtain," of uncertain origin. Cf. fetch (v.).

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Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
fet in Medicine

FET

abbr.
  1. forced expiratory time
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