KT

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KT, kT or kt may refer to:

Arts and media

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

Physics and chemistry

  • 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

  • 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

Other uses in science and technology

  • 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

Other uses

  • "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

See also

  • Kati (disambiguation)
  • Katie
  • Katy (disambiguation)
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