PT, Pt, or pt may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

* ''P.T.'' (''Silent Hills''), initialism for "playable teaser", a short video game released to promote the cancelled video game ''Silent Hills'' *

Porcupine Tree Porcupine Tree are an English rock band formed by musician Steven Wilson in 1987. During an initial career spanning more than twenty years, they earned critical acclaim from critics and fellow musicians, developed a cult following, and became ...

, 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 job * Perseroan Terbatas, 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 dos Trabalhadores'' (Guinea-Bissau) (Workers' Party), a Bissau-Guinean political party * ''Partido del Trabajo'' (Mexico) (Labor 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 Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country on the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe. Featuring Cabo da Roca, the westernmost point in continental Europe, Portugal borders Spain to its north and east, with which it share ...

(ISO country code PT) ** .pt, an Internet top-level domain name for Portugal **

Portuguese language Portuguese ( or ) is a Western Romance language of the Indo-European language family originating from the Iberian Peninsula of Europe. It is the official language of Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal and São Tom� ...

(ISO 639 alpha-2 code "pt") *

Palestinian territories The occupied Palestinian territories, also referred to as the Palestinian territories, consist of the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) and the Gaza Strip—two regions of the former Mandate for Palestine, British Mandate for Palestine ...

, 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 The Pacific Time Zone (PT) is a time zone encompassing parts of western Canada, the western United States, and western Mexico. Places in this zone observe standard time by subtracting eight hours from Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC−08:00 ...

, a time zone 8 hours behind UTC

Science, technology, and mathematics

Biology and medicine

* pt,

patient A patient is any recipient of health care services that are performed by Health professional, healthcare professionals. The patient is most often Disease, ill or Major trauma, injured and in need of therapy, treatment by a physician, nurse, op ...

, a medical abbreviation *

Physical therapy Physical therapy (PT), also known as physiotherapy, is a healthcare profession, as well as the care provided by physical therapists who promote, maintain, or restore health through patient education, physical intervention, disease preventio ...

/Physiotherapy or Physical therapist/Physiotherapist * Pararosaniline, Toluidine histological stain * Percutaneous surgery * Pertussis toxin, a protein-based exotoxin which causes whooping cough * Petunidin, an anthocyanidin plant pigment * Prothrombin time, a measurement of blood coagulation * Pump thrombosis, a major device malfunction due to a suspected or confirmed development of a pump thrombus

Computing

* .pt, an Internet top-level domain name for Portugal *

Plain text In computing, plain text is a loose term for data (e.g. file contents) that represent only characters of readable material but not its graphical representation nor other objects ( floating-point numbers, images, etc.). It may also include a lim ...

, data consisting in unformatted characters * Panorama Tools, a suite of programs and libraries originally by Helmut Dersch * Pluggable Transport, an API in the Tor Project * Penetration testing, checking to see how secure a computer system is

Physics and chemistry

Platinum Platinum is a chemical element; it has Symbol (chemistry), symbol Pt and atomic number 78. It is a density, dense, malleable, ductility, ductile, highly unreactive, precious metal, precious, silverish-white transition metal. Its name origina ...

, symbol Pt, a chemical element * Polythiophene, a molecule * Total pressure (P), in fluid dynamics

Transportation

* A US Navy hull classification symbol: Patrol torpedo boat (PT) *

Public transport Public transport (also known as public transit, mass transit, or simply transit) are forms of transport available to the general public. It typically uses a fixed schedule, route and charges a fixed fare. There is no rigid definition of whic ...

, or public transit * Chrysler PT Cruiser, a car model *

PT-91 The PT-91 Twardy (, English: Hard) is a Polish main battle tank. A development of the T-72#Models, T-72M1, it entered service in 1995. The PT-91 was designed at the :pl:Ośrodek Badawczo-Rozwojowy Urządzeń Mechanicznych „OBRUM”, OBRUM ...

, a military tank

Units of measurement

Percentage point A percentage point or percent point is the unit (measurement), unit for the difference (mathematics), arithmetic difference between two percentages. For example, moving up from 40 percent to 44 percent is an increase of 4 percentage points (altho ...

(pt), a unit for the arithmetic difference of two percentages * ''pt'', a measurement in the print industry for thickness of

card stock Card stock, also called cover stock and pasteboard, is paper that is thicker and more durable than normal writing and printing paper, but thinner and more flexible than other forms of paperboard. Card stock is often used for business cards, ...

* Pint (Pt.), a unit of volume or capacity *

Point (typography) In typography, the point is the smallest unit of measure. It is used for measuring font size, leading, and other items on a printed page. The size of the point has varied throughout printing's history. Since the 18th century, the size of a point ...

(Pt.), a unit of measure used in typography

Other uses in science, technology, and mathematics

* Permian-Triassic extinction event, a mass extinction between the Paleozoic and Mesozoic eras *

Peat Peat is an accumulation of partially Decomposition, decayed vegetation or organic matter. It is unique to natural areas called peatlands, bogs, mires, Moorland, moors, or muskegs. ''Sphagnum'' moss, also called peat moss, is one of the most ...

, in the Unified Soil Classification System * Post-tensioned concrete, a reinforcement method in structural engineering * Potential transformer, an electrical component for changing voltage * Pressure treated wood

Sport

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

Physical fitness

Physical education Physical education is an academic subject taught in schools worldwide, encompassing Primary education, primary, Secondary education, secondary, and sometimes tertiary education. It is often referred to as Phys. Ed. or PE, and in the United Stat ...

, known in many Commonwealth countries as physical training or PT * Physical training instructor, in the British & Commonwealth military; also in the British police * , physical training

Other uses

* Pandit, a Hindu honorific applied to certain scholars of law, religion, philosophy or music * Perpetual traveler or "permanent tourist" * '' Perspectives on Terrorism'', an academic journal * ''

Pro tempore ''Pro tempore'' (), abbreviated ''pro tem'' or ''p.t.'', is a Latin phrase which best translates to 'for the time being' in English. This phrase is often used to describe a person who acts as a '' locum tenens'' ('placeholder'). The phrase is ...

'', a Latin phrase "for the time being" (temporary) * Pyramid Texts, an ancient Egyptian funerary text * '' Processo transexualizador'', a term for gender transition health care in Brazil