Science and Technology
- Parts per trillion, a measure of fractions
- PPT format, the file format used by Microsoft PowerPoint
- Polypyrimidine tract, a region of messenger RNA
- Positive partial transpose, a criterion used in quantum mechanics
- Precipitate, the formation of a solid in a solution during a chemical reaction
- Primitive Pythagorean triple, in mathematics
- Protopanaxatriol, a molecule found in ginseng
- Pulsed plasma thruster, a method of spacecraft propulsion
- DL-Phosphinothricin, a herbicide
- Probabilistic Polynomial Time, in complexity theory
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