Forte

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Forte/Forté may refer to:

  • Forte, an individual's strongest talent or greatest strength ("Preparing gourmet cuisine is his forte")
  • Forte (music), a musical dynamic meaning "loudly" or "strong"
  • Forte (fencing), a fencing term for the "strong" part of the blade
  • Forte (film), a defunct manufacturer of sheet film
  • Trust House Forte, a British hotel and catering firm

[edit] People

Forte/Forté is a human surname of:

[edit] Fictional characters

In some fictional stories, writers choose to use fanciful words such as Forte or Forté as given names. Characters with such names include:

[edit] Technology

  • FORTE (satellite), the Fast On-orbit Rapid Recording of Transient Events satellite
  • Forte 4GL, a proprietary application server
  • Forté Agent, an email and news client used on the Windows operating system
  • Forte TeamWare, a family of development environments from Sun Microsystems

[edit] Company

  • Forte Land, a large-scale real estate company in Shanghai, China
  • Forte Group, a former British hotel company
  • Forte Films, an up and coming video production company