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PT, Pt, or pt may stand for:

Places

Types of places

  • Port, a location on a coast or shore containing one or more harbors where ships can dock and transfer people or cargo to or from land
  • Point, a prominent mass of land that overlooks lower-lying land or a body of water

Mathematics, science, and technology

Mathematics

Units of measurement

  • Pt., an abbreviation for pint, a unit of volume or capacity
  • Pt., an abbreviation for point (typography), a unit of measure used in typography.
  • pt, a measurement in the print industry for thickness of card stock

Botany and forestry

  • Petunidin, an anthocyanidin plant pigment
  • a symbol for peat in the Unified Soil Classification System

Chemistry

Computers and the Internet

Engineering

Electrical

Geology

  • Pressure and temperature, often used in the phrase "PT conditions" in reference to metamorphism

Medicine

Diseases

Physics

  • Pt is the symbol, in particle physics formulae, for the transverse momentum (the momentum that is perpendicular to the beamline of a particle detector)
  • Pt, or total pressure is used in fluid dynamics

Transportation

  • PT Cruiser, a car model made by Chrysler
  • PT boat, a type of small fast ship used by the US Navy in World War II
  • PT., an abbreviation for Public Transit, or Public Transport

Society

  • Perpetual traveler or "permanent tourist"
  • Pt., an abbreviation for Pandit, a Hindu honorific applied to certain scholars of law, religion, philosophy or music

Business

Finance

Law

  • Pro tempore, a Latin phrase "for the time being" (temporary)

Military

  • Physical training (see Physical fitness), commonly abbreviated PT in the United States military
  • PT boat, a type of small fast ship used by the U.S. Navy in World War II

Political parties

Entertainment

Bands

Games

Music theory

  • Passing tone, one of many nonharmonic tones that is approached by step and then continues by step in the same direction

Sports


References

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