Belt Explained
Belt or The Belt may refer to:
Apparel
Geology
Mechanical and vehicular
- Belt (mechanical), a looped strip of material used to link multiple rotating shafts
- Conveyor belt, a device for transporting goods along a fixed track
- Belt manlift, a device for moving people between floors in a building or grain elevator.
- Seat belt, a safety device in automobiles and on the plane
- Timing belt, part of an internal combustion engine
- Serpentine belt, move accessories of a combustion engine.
- Belt track, a type of track used on Caterpillar-style vehicles
- Belt armor, a layer of heavy metal armor plated onto or within the outer hulls of warships
- Belt (firearms), a type of ammunition used in light machine guns, like the M240 and Mk 48.
- Steel belt, a type of conveyor belt
Places
- Belt, North Holland
- Belt, Montana, United States
- Belt Parkway, a series of highways around New York City, United States
- Danish belts, several straits in and around Denmark:
- Any of several informally defined elongated regions of the United States and elsewhere
- Belts, Yiddish name of Bălți, Moldova
- Il-Belt, Maltese name of Valletta, Malta
Astronomy
- Asteroid belt, a region of the solar system between Mars and Jupiter
- Gould Belt, a partial ring of stars representing the local spiral arm to which the Sun belongs
- Kuiper belt, a region of the solar system beyond the orbit of Neptune
- Orion's Belt
People with the surname
Other uses
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