APT

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APT or Apt may mean:

• APT, Advanced Portfolio Technologies, a financial software and data vendor based out of New York, USA
• Apt, Vaucluse, a commune of the Vaucluse département of France, sous-préfecture
  • Arrondissement of Apt, an arrondissement located in the Vaucluse département of France
• APT programming language, a high-level computer programming language used to generate instructions for numerically controlled machine tools (the name is derived from the acronym for Automatically Programmed Tool)
• Apt, a surname:
  • Jerome Apt, Ph.D. (born 1949), an American astronaut
• APT, the postal abbreviation for apartment
• Apt Records, a subsidiary record label of ABC-Paramount Records
• Arbitrage pricing theory, a modeling theory in finance and financial economics
• Advanced Packaging Tool, a package management system created for Debian, but also used by some other GNU/Linux distributions
• American Public Television, a television program provider in the United States
• American Players Theatre, a classical theater located in Spring Green, Wisconsin
• Automatic Picture Transmission, a weather satellite system that provides a reduced resolution data stream from the radiometer instrument
• Advanced Passenger Train, an ambitious tilting passenger train designed during late 1970s which proved to be unreliable (and failed to achieve all of its design objectives) under operating conditions
  • British Rail APT-E (Advanced Passenger Train Experimental tilting train), the prototype Advanced Passenger Train unit
• Alabama Public Television, a network of Public Broadcast TV stations run by the U.S. state of Alabama
• Airport Tycoon, a simulation computer game where players build and manage an airport
• Atom Probe Tomograph or Atom Probe Tomography, an instrument or technique in which a sharp tip is ionized and a 3D atomic reconstruction is made.
• ASEAN Plus Three, a forum that functions to coordinate cooperation between the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and the three East Asian nations of China, Japan and South Korea