PT explained

PT, Pt, or pt may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

• P.T. (video game), acronym for Playable Teaser, a short video game released to promote the cancelled video game Silent Hills
• Porcupine Tree, a British progressive rock group

In business

Businesses

• Capital Cargo International Airlines (IATA airline designator PT)
• West Air Sweden (IATA airline designator PT)
• Putnam Transit, a bus system that serves Putnam County, New York
• Portugal Telecom, the largest telecommunications service provider in Portugal
• Piteå-Tidningen, a Swedish local newspaper

Business terminology

• Part-time job
• Perseroan Terbatas, the Indonesian name for a limited liability company

Political parties

• Partido dos Trabalhadores (Brazil) (Workers' Party), a Brazilian political party
• Parti des travailleurs (France) (Workers' Party), a defunct French political party
• Partido dos Trabalhadores (Guinea-Bissau) (Workers' Party), a Bissau-Guinean political party
• Partido del Trabajo (Mexico) (Labor Party), a Mexican political party

Places

• Promontory or point, a prominent mass of land that overlooks lower-lying land or a body of water

Specific places

• Portugal (ISO country code PT)
  • .pt, an Internet top-level domain name for Portugal
  • Portuguese language (ISO 639 alpha-2 code "pt")
• Palestinian territories, comprise the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) and the Gaza Strip
• Pistoia, a city in Italy
• Port Townsend, Washington, a city in Jefferson County, Washington, in the United States
• Pacific Time Zone, a time zone 8 hours behind UTC

Science, technology, and mathematics

Biology and medicine

• pt, patient, a medical abbreviation
• Physical therapy/Physiotherapy or Physical therapist/Physiotherapist
• Pararosaniline, Toluidine histological stain
• Percutaneous surgery
• Pertussis toxin, a protein-based exotoxin which causes whooping cough
• Petunidin, an anthocyanidin plant pigment
• Prothrombin time, a measurement of blood coagulation
• Pump thrombosis, a major device malfunction due to a suspected or confirmed development of a pump thrombus

Computing

• .pt, an Internet top-level domain name for Portugal
• Plain text, data consisting in unformatted characters
• Panorama Tools, a suite of programs and libraries originally by Helmut Dersch
• Pluggable Transport, an API in the Tor Project
• Penetration testing, checking to see how secure a computer system is

Physics and chemistry

• Platinum, symbol Pt, a chemical element
• Polythiophene, a molecule
• Total pressure (P), in fluid dynamics

Transportation

• A US Navy hull classification symbol: Patrol torpedo boat (PT)
• Public transport, or public transit
• Chrysler PT Cruiser, a car model
• PT-91, a military tank

Units of measurement

• Percentage point (pt), a unit for the arithmetic difference of two percentages
• pt, a measurement in the print industry for thickness of card stock
• Pint (Pt.), a unit of volume or capacity
• Point (typography) (Pt.), a unit of measure used in typography

Other uses in science, technology, and mathematics

• Permian-Triassic extinction event, a mass extinction between the Paleozoic and Mesozoic eras
• Peat, in the Unified Soil Classification System
• Post-tensioned concrete, a reinforcement method in structural engineering
• Potential transformer, an electrical component for changing voltage
• Pressure treated wood

Sport

• Personal trainer, in fitness and bodybuilding
• Pro Tour (disambiguation)

Physical fitness

• Physical education, known in many Commonwealth countries as physical training or PT
• Physical training instructor, in the British & Commonwealth military; also in the British police
• , physical training

Other uses

• Pandit, a Hindu honorific applied to certain scholars of law, religion, philosophy or music
• Perpetual traveler or "permanent tourist"
• Perspectives on Terrorism, an academic journal
• Pro tempore, a Latin phrase "for the time being" (temporary)
• Pyramid Texts, an ancient Egyptian funerary text
• Processo transexualizador, a term for gender transition health care in Brazil

See also

• P. T. (disambiguation)
• Petey (disambiguation)
• Abbreviation of Pumper Tanker in Fire Rescue Victoria