Alt or ALT may refer to:
Abbreviations for words
* Alt account, an alternative online identity also known as a
sock puppet account
A sock puppet, sock puppet account, or simply sock is a false online identity used for deceptive purposes. The term originally referred to a sock puppet, hand puppet made from a sock. Sock puppets include online identities created to praise, ...
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Alternate character
In role-playing games, an alternate character, often referred to in slang as alt, alt char, or less commonly multi, is a character in addition to one's "primary" or "main" player character. Players are generally not secretive about their alterna ...
, in online gaming
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Alternate route, type of highway designation
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Alternating group
In mathematics, an alternating group is the Group (mathematics), group of even permutations of a finite set. The alternating group on a set of elements is called the alternating group of degree , or the alternating group on letters and denoted ...
, mathematical group of even permutations
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Alternative lifestyle
An alternative lifestyle or unconventional lifestyle is a lifestyle (sociology), lifestyle perceived to be outside the social norm, norm for a given culture. The term ''alternative lifestyle'' is often used pejoratively. Description of a related ...
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Alternative rock
Alternative rock (also known as alternative music, alt-rock or simply alternative) is a category of rock music that evolved from the independent music underground of the 1970s. Alternative rock acts achieved mainstream success in the 1990s w ...
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Alternator
An alternator (or synchronous generator) is an electrical generator that converts mechanical energy to electrical energy in the form of alternating current. For reasons of cost and simplicity, most alternators use a rotating magnetic field wit ...
* Alternative subculture or
youth subculture
Youth subculture is a youth-based subculture with distinct styles, behaviors, and interests. Youth subcultures offer participants an identity outside of that ascribed by social institutions such as family, employment, work, home and school. Youth ...
, particularly with regard to fashion or aesthetics ("alt fashion," "alt aesthetics")
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Altimeter
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Altitude
Altitude is a distance measurement, usually in the vertical or "up" direction, between a reference datum (geodesy), datum and a point or object. The exact definition and reference datum varies according to the context (e.g., aviation, geometr ...
Acronyms and initialisms
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Aboriginal Land Trust
In Australia, an Aboriginal land trust (ALT) is a type of Non-profit organization, non-profit organisation that holds the Freehold (law), freehold title to an area of Real property, land on behalf of a community of Aboriginal Australians. The land ...
, a type of organisation in Australia
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Alanine transaminase, a liver enzyme of the transaminase family
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Altona railway station, Melbourne
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Alternative lengthening of telomeres, in cellular biology
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Approach and Landing Tests
The Approach and Landing Tests were a series of sixteen taxiing, taxi and flight trials of the prototype Space Shuttle Orbiter, Space Shuttle ''Space Shuttle Enterprise, Enterprise'' that took place between February and October 1977 to test the ...
, in space transportation
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Argon laser trabeculoplasty, a type of glaucoma surgery
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Assistant Language Teacher, in Japan
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Association for Learning Technology, in Oxford, England
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Association for Linguistic Typology
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Accelerated life testing, testing a product in excess of its normal service parameters
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International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory, a conference in theoretical computer science
Places and geographical features
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Alt, Greater Manchester, formerly a constituent parish of Limehurst Rural District, near Oldham, England
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River Alt, in Merseyside, England
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Olt (river) (), river in Romania
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Altoona Transportation Center
The Altoona Transportation Center is an intermodal passenger transport, intermodal passenger facility in downtown Altoona, Pennsylvania. It is served by the daily Amtrak , Greyhound Lines intercity buses, and AMTRAN (Altoona Transit), AMTRAN lo ...
, Pennsylvania, U.S. (Amtrak code ALT)
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Altrincham station, in Altrincham, England (National Rail station code ALT)
People
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Alt (surname)
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A.L.T. (born 1970), Mexican-American rapper
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André Leon Talley, fashion magazine editor
Music
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ALT (band), Andy White, Liam Ó Maonlaí, Tim Finn
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''ALT'' (album), a 2012 music album by Van der Graaf Generator
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''ALT'' (EP), a 2015 EP by Vanna
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Alt-J
Alt-J (stylised as alt-J, real name Δ) are an English indie rock band formed in 2007 in Leeds. Their lineup includes Joe Newman (guitar/lead vocals), Thom Sonny Green (drums), Gus Unger-Hamilton (keyboards/vocals), and formerly Gwil Sainsbury ...
, band
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in alt, singing in the octave above the treble staff (G
5 to F
6)
* ALT, a robotic singer with songs in the
Bemani game series including Pop'n Music, Reflec Beat and Jubeat
Technology
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Southern Altai language (ISO-639-3 code "alt")
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Alt attribute, in HTML computer language
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Alt key, on a computer keyboard
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ALT Linux, computer software
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''alt.*'' hierarchy, in USENET newsgroups
Other
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Altbier, German beer
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''Alt'' (film), a 2013 Venezuelan short film
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Alt-right
The alt-right (abbreviated from alternative right) is a Far-right politics, far-right, White nationalism, white nationalist movement. A largely Internet activism, online phenomenon, the alt-right originated in the United States during the late ...
, an abbreviation of alternative right, a loosely connected far-right, white nationalist movement based largely in the United States
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