PT

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PT, Pt, or pt may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

• P.T. (video game), short for Playable Teaser, a video game developed 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 employment
• Perseroan Terbatas (PT), 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 del Trabajo (Mexico) (Labour 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 that observes standard time by subtracting eight hours from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC−8)

Science, technology, and mathematics

Biology and medicine

• pt, patient, a medical abbreviation
• PT, physical therapy, physical therapist or physiotherapy
• Pararosaniline, Toluidine histological stain
• Percutaneous surgery
• Pertussis toxin, a protein-based exotoxin which causes whooping cough
• Mitochondrial permeability transition, a loss of impermeability of the membranes of mitochondria
• Petunidin, an anthocyanidin plant pigment
• Prothrombin time, a measurement of blood coagulation
• Pulmonary hypertension, an increase of blood pressure in the pulmonary artery, pulmonary vein, or pulmonary capillaries

Computing

• .pt, an Internet top-level domain name for Portugal
• Panorama Tools, a suite of programs and libraries originally written by the German physics and mathematics professor Helmut Dersch

Physics and chemistry

• Platinum, a chemical element
• Polythiophene, a molecule
• Total pressure (P_t), in fluid dynamics

Transportation

• Chrysler PT Cruiser, a car model
• PT boat, a type of small fast ship used by the US Navy in World War II
• Public transport, or public transit

Other uses in science, technology, and mathematics

• Peat, in the Unified Soil Classification System
• Post-tensioned concrete, a reinforcement method in structural engineering; see prestressed concrete
• Potential transformer, a type of electrical instrument transformer
• Pressure treated wood

Sport

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

Units of measurement

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

Other uses

• Pandit, a Hindu honorific applied to certain scholars of law, religion, philosophy or music
• Perpetual traveler or "permanent tourist"
• Pro tempore, in law, a Latin phrase "for the time being" (temporary)
• Physical training instructor, in the British & Commonwealth military; also in the British police
• Physical training instructor, in the U.S. military