KT, kT or kt may refer to:

Arts and media

  • Karlstads-Tidningen, a Swedish newspaper released in Karlstad
  • Knight (chess), a board game piece (as used in notation)
  • KT (film), a 2002 Japanese political thriller
  • KT Bush Band, group formed by musician Kate Bush

Businesses and organizations

  • AirAsia Cambodia (IATA code KT)
  • Birgenair (IATA code KT), a former Turkish charter airline company with headquarters in Istanbul, Turkey
  • 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
  • KT Corporation, a telecommunications company in South Korea, formerly Korea Telecom

People

  • (active mid-late 20th century), dissident Polish journalist known as K.T., brother of film educator Jerzy Toeplitz
  • 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

Places

  • Christmas Island, an Australian territory in the Indian Ocean with the NATO country code KT
  • Kastoria, Greece (vehicle plate code KT)
  • Katy, Texas, formerly known as the "KT stop" on the Kansas-Texas-Missouri railroad line
  • Kitzingen, Germany (vehicle plate code KT)
  • KT postcode area, UK, covering south west London and north Surrey in England
  • 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 (K<sub>T</sub>)
  • 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

  • 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

  • KT Event - Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event or K-Pg event, formerly named the Cretaceous-Tertiary or KT event, a mass extinction of species about 66 million years ago
  • K–Pg boundary, formerly the K-T boundary, geologic abbreviation for the transition between the Cretaceous and Paleogene eras
  • Kardashev scale, an abbreviation of a method to rank an advanced civilization's level of technologic advance
  • Kotlin, an abbreviation of a programming language for the Java virtual machine

Titles

  • 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

  • Kaituozhe (rocket family), which uses the prefix KT
  • Kennitala (kt.), the Icelandic identification number
  • Knowledge transfer
  • KT, vehicle registration prefix for East Kalimantan, Indonesia

See also

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