KT, kT or kt may refer to:

Arts and media

* KT Bush Band, group formed by musician

Kate Bush Catherine Bush (born 30 July 1958) is an English singer, songwriter, record producer, and dancer. Bush began writing songs at age 11. She was signed to EMI Records after David Gilmour of Pink Floyd helped produce a demo tape. In 1978, at the ...

* ''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) The knight (♘, ♞) is a piece in the game of chess, represented by a horse's head and neck. It moves two squares vertically and one square horizontally, or two squares horizontally and one square vertically, jumping over other pieces. Each pla ...

, 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 * AirAsia Cambodia (IATA code KT) * Birgenair (IATA code KT), a former Turkish charter airline company with headquarters in Istanbul, Turkey

People

* (active mid-late 20th century), dissident Polish journalist known as K.T., brother of film educator Jerzy Toeplitz * 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 (1942–2020), American country music singer and songwriter * K.T. Sankaran (born 1954), Indian judge * KT Sullivan, American singer and actress *

KT Tunstall Kate Victoria "KT" Tunstall (born 23 June 1975) is a Scottish singer-songwriter and musician. She first gained attention with a 2004 live solo performance of her song "Black Horse and the Cherry Tree" on ''Later... with Jools Holland'', and h ...

(born 1975), Scottish singer-songwriter

Places

* KT postcode area, UK, covering south west London and north Surrey in England *

Christmas Island Christmas Island, officially the Territory of Christmas Island, is an States and territories of Australia#External territories, Australian external territory in the Indian Ocean comprising the island of the same name. It is about south o ...

ATO country code: KT an Australian territory in the Indian Ocean *

Kastoria Kastoria (, ''Kastoriá'' ) is a city in northern Greece in the modern regions of Greece, region of Western Macedonia. It is the capital of Kastoria (regional unit), Kastoria regional unit, in the Geographic regions of Greece, geographic region ...

, Greece (vehicle plate code KT) *

Katy, Texas Katy is a city in the U.S. state of Texas. It is in the Greater Katy area, itself forming the western part of the Greater Houston metropolitan area. Homes and businesses may have Katy postal addresses without being in the City of Katy. The city ...

, named after the railroad line Kansas-Texas-Missouri *

Kitzingen Kitzingen () is a town in the Germany, German state of Bavaria, capital of the Kitzingen (district), district Kitzingen. It is part of the Franconia geographical region and has around 21,000 inhabitants. Surrounded by vineyards, Kitzingen County i ...

, Germany (vehicle plate code KT) * Kuala Terengganu, a city in Malaysia * Kutina, Croatia (vehicle plate code KT) *

Tarnów Tarnów () is a city in southeastern Poland with 105,922 inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of 269,000 inhabitants. The city is situated in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship. It is a major rail junction, located on the strategic east– ...

, 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 TNT equivalent is a convention for expressing energy, typically used to describe the energy released in an explosion. A ton of TNT equivalent is a unit of energy defined by convention to be (). It is the approximate energy released in the det ...

(kt), a measure of energy released in explosions * motor torque constant (K_T) *

Knot (unit) The knot () is a unit of speed equal to one nautical mile per hour, exactly (approximately or ). The ISO standard symbol for the knot is kn. The same symbol is preferred by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ( IEEE), whil ...

, 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

* ''KT Event'' -

Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event The Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) extinction event, also known as the K–T extinction, was the extinction event, mass extinction of three-quarters of the plant and animal species on Earth approximately 66 million years ago. The event cau ...

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 *

Kotlin (programming language) Kotlin () is a Cross-platform software, cross-platform, static typing, statically typed, general-purpose programming language, general-purpose High-level programming language, high-level programming language with type inference. Kotlin is design ...

, a programming language for the Java Virtual Machine

Titles

Knight Bachelor The title of Knight Bachelor is the basic rank granted to a man who has been knighted by the monarch but not inducted as a member of one of the organised Order of chivalry, orders of chivalry; it is a part of the Orders, decorations, and medals ...

(Kt), part of the British honours system * Knight of the Thistle (KT), a member of the Order of the Thistle * Knight Templar, top degree of York Rite system - freemansory

Other uses

* "Kept Term" as in ATKT ( Allowed to keep terms), used in Indian education system * KT, acronym for

Knowledge transfer Knowledge transfer refers to transferring an awareness of facts or practical skills from one entity to another.Kjell Arne Røvik (2016). "Knowledge Transfer as Translation: Review and Elements of an Instrumental Theory." ''International Journa ...

, transferring knowledge from one part of an organization to another * Kaituozhe (rocket family), which uses the prefix ''KT'' * Kennitala (kt.), the Icelandic identification number