KT

KT, kT or kt may refer to:

Arts and media

• KT Bush Band, group formed by musician Kate Bush
• KT (film), a 2002 Japanese political thriller film, based on the real-life kidnapping of Kim Dae-jung
• Karlstads-Tidningen (KT), a Swedish newspaper released in Karlstad
• Knight (chess), a board game piece (as used in notation)

Businesses and organizations

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

People

• 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 (born 1942), 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
• Kola Tubosun, Nigerian writer and linguist

Places

• KT postcode area, UK, covering south west London and north Surrey in England
• Christmas Island [NATO country code: KT], an Australian territory in the Indian Ocean
• Kastoria, Greece (vehicle plate code KT)
• Katy, Texas, named after the railroad line Kansas-Texas-Missouri
• Kitzingen, Germany (vehicle plate code KT)
• 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_T)
• 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

• Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event or K-Pg event, formerly known as the Cretaceous-Tertiary or KT event, a mass extinction of species approximately 66 million years ago
• K–Pg boundary, formerly the K-T boundary, geologic abbreviation for the transition between the Cretaceous and Paleogene periods
• Kardashev scale, method of measuring an advanced civilization's level of technological advancement

Titles

• Knight Bachelor, part of the British honours system
• Knight of the Thistle, a member of the Order of the Thistle

Other uses

• "Kept Term" as in ATKT (Allowed to keep terms), used in Indian education system
• KT, acronym for Knowledge transfer, transferring knowledge from one part of an organization to another

See also

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