KT
KT, kT or kt may refer to:
Arts and media
[edit]- KT Bush Band, group formed by musician Kate Bush
- KT (film), a 2002 Japanese political thriller film, based on the real-life kidnapping of Kim Dae-jung
- Karlstads-Tidningen (KT), a Swedish newspaper released in Karlstad
- Knight (chess), a board game piece (as used in notation)
Businesses and organizations
[edit]- KT Corporation, a telecommunications company in South Korea, formerly Korea Telecom
- Kataller Toyama, a football club in Japan
- Kensington Temple, a Pentecostal church in west London, UK
- Koei Tecmo, a holding company created in 2009 by the merger of Japanese video game companies Koei and Tecmo
- Birgenair (IATA code KT), a former Turkish charter airline company with headquarters in Istanbul, Turkey
People
[edit]- KT Manu Musliar (born 1934), Indian Islamic scholar, orator, and writer
- K. T. McFarland (born 1951), American government official and political commentator
- K. T. Oslin (1942–2020), American country music singer and songwriter
- K.T. Sankaran (born 1954), Indian judge
- KT Sullivan, American singer and actress
- KT Tunstall (born 1975), Scottish singer-songwriter
- Kola Tubosun, Nigerian writer and linguist
Places
[edit]- KT postcode area, UK, covering south west London and north Surrey in England
- Christmas Island [NATO country code: KT], an Australian territory in the Indian Ocean
- Kastoria, Greece (vehicle plate code KT)
- Katy, Texas, named after the railroad line Kansas-Texas-Missouri
- Kitzingen, Germany (vehicle plate code KT)
- Kuala Terengganu, a city in Malaysia
- Kutina, Croatia (vehicle plate code KT)
- Tarnów, Poland (vehicle plate code KT)
Science and technology
[edit]Physics and chemistry
[edit]- Kt, karat or Carat, in analyzing gold alloys
- kT (energy), in physics, used as a scaling factor for energy values in molecular-scale systems
- Kilotesla (kT), a unit of magnetic flux density
- Kiloton (kt), a measure of energy released in explosions
- motor torque constant (KT)
- Knot (unit), a unit of velocity (although "kn" is the preferred symbol)
- Kosterlitz–Thouless transition in statistical mechanics
Vehicles
[edit]- Kriegstransporter, a series of World War II German merchant ships (KT 1 - KT 62), such as KT 3
- King Tiger, a German tank designed during World War II
- KT for Krylatyj Tank, the Antonov A-40 tank, also nicknamed the "flying tank" or "winged tank"
Medicine
[edit]- Klippel–Trénaunay syndrome, a rare congenital medical condition in which blood vessels and/or lymph vessels fail to form properly.
Other uses in science and technology
[edit]- KT Event - Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event or K-Pg event, formerly known as the Cretaceous-Tertiary or KT event, a mass extinction of species approximately 66 million years ago
- K–Pg boundary, formerly the K-T boundary, geologic abbreviation for the transition between the Cretaceous and Paleogene periods
- Kardashev scale, method of measuring an advanced civilization's level of technological advancement
- Kotlin (programming language), a programming language for the Java Virtual Machine
Titles
[edit]- Knight Bachelor (Kt), part of the British honours system
- Knight of the Thistle (KT), a member of the Order of the Thistle
- Knight Templar, top degree of York Rite system - freemansory
Other uses
[edit]- "Kept Term" as in ATKT (Allowed to keep terms), used in Indian education system
- KT, acronym for Knowledge transfer, transferring knowledge from one part of an organization to another
- Kaituozhe (rocket family), which uses the prefix KT
- Kennitala (kt.), the Icelandic identification number