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 KT Corporation (Hangul: 주식회사 케이티), formerly Korea Telecom, is a South Korean telecommunications company, mobile network operator (MNO) and List of mobile virtual network operators in South Korea, mobile virtual network operator (M ...

, a telecommunications company in South Korea, formerly Korea Telecom *

Kataller Toyama is a football club based in Toyama, Capital of Toyama Prefecture. The club currently play in J2 League after promotion from J3 in 2024, Japanese second tier of professional football. History The idea of a merged club had been discussed by t ...

, a football club in Japan *

Kensington Temple Kensington Temple is a Pentecostal Church in the Notting Hill area of London, England. It is the largest church in its denomination, the Elim Pentecostal Church. History The present church building was founded as Horbury Chapel, and used by the ...

, a Pentecostal church in west London, UK *

Koei Tecmo is a Japanese video game, amusement and anime holding company created in 2009 by the merger of Koei and Tecmo. Koei Tecmo Holdings owns several companies, the biggest one of those being its flagship video game developer and publisher Koei Tecmo ...

, a holding company created in 2009 by the merger of Japanese video game companies Koei and Tecmo *

AirAsia Cambodia AirAsia Cambodia () is a Cambodian low-cost airline based at Phnom Penh International Airport. It is a joint venture between the Malaysian AirAsia and Cambodian local enterprise Sivilai Asia. The airline was launched on 9 December 2022 and st ...

(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 Jerzy Bonawentura Toeplitz (24 November 190924 July 1995) was a Polish film educator and theorist. He was a co-founder of the national film school in Łódź, Poland, now known as now known as Łódź Film School, which had a significant impact ...

* 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 K.T. Sankaran (born 25 December 1954) was a judge of the Kerala High Court. The High Court of Kerala is the highest court in the Indian state of Kerala and in the Union Territory of Lakshadweep. The High Court of Kerala is headquartered at Ernaku ...

(born 1954), Indian judge *

KT Sullivan KT Sullivan is an American singer and actress known for her performances in cabaret and musical theatre. Early years Born Kathleen Sullivan in Coalgate, Oklahoma to Elizabeth, a poet and composer, and James A. Sullivan, a director of the Agricult ...

, 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 The KT postcode area, also known as the Kingston upon Thames postcode area,Royal Mail, ''Address Management Guide'', (2004) is a group of 24 postcode districts in England, within 19 post towns. These cover boroughs in south-west Greater London ...

, 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 Kuala Terengganu (; Terengganu Malay language, Terengganu Malay: ''Kole Tranung''), colloquially referred to as KT, is the administrative, economic and royal List of capitals in Malaysia, city of the state of Terengganu, Malaysia. Kuala Tereng ...

, a city in Malaysia *

Kutina Kutina is a town in central Croatia, the largest settlement in the hilly region of Moslavina, in the Sisak-Moslavina County. The town proper has a population of 13,735 (2011), while the total municipal population is 22,760. The settlement of Ku ...

, 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 The tesla (symbol: T) is the unit of magnetic flux density (also called magnetic B-field strength) in the International System of Units (SI). One tesla is equal to one weber per square metre. The unit was announced during the General Conferenc ...

(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 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 Swed ...

'' *

King Tiger The Tiger II was a Nazi Germany, German heavy tank of the World War II, Second World War. The final official German designation was ''Panzerkampfwagen'' Tiger ''Ausf''. B, often shortened to Tiger B.Jentz and Doyle 1993, p. 16. The ordnance inve ...

, a German tank designed during World War II * KT for ''Krylatyj Tank'', the

Antonov A-40 The Antonov A-40 ''Krylya Tanka'' (, meaning "tank wings") was a Soviet attempt to allow a tank to glide onto a battlefield after being towed aloft by an airplane, to support airborne forces or partisans.Winchester 2005, p. 62 A prototype was ...

tank, also nicknamed the "flying tank" or "winged tank"

Medicine

Klippel–Trénaunay syndrome Klippel–Trénaunay syndrome, formerly Klippel–Trénaunay–Weber syndrome and sometimes angioosteohypertrophy syndrome and hemangiectatic hypertrophy, is a rare congenital medical condition in which blood vessels and/or lymph vessels fail to f ...

, 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 The Kardashev scale () is a method of measuring a civilization's level of technology, technological advancement based on the amount of energy it is capable of harnessing and using. The measure was proposed by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Kardashev i ...

, 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 The Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle is an order of chivalry associated with Scotland. The current version of the order was founded in 1687 by King James VII of Scotland, who asserted that he was reviving an earlier order. The ...

(KT), a member of the Order of the Thistle *

Knight Templar The Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon, mainly known as the Knights Templar, was a Military order (religious society), military order of the Catholic Church, Catholic faith, and one of the most important military ord ...

, top degree of York Rite system - freemansory

Other uses

* "Kept Term" as in ATKT (

Allowed to keep terms Allowed to keep terms (ATKT) is a process in the Indian education system to allow students of pre-graduation and graduation to study in the next grade if they have failed in 1 to 4 subjects. The students must pass the papers they failed before ent ...

), 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) The Kaituozhe ( zh, s=开拓者, p=kāi tuò zhě, l=pioneer) or KT rocket family is a series of launch vehicles built by the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC). Kaituozhe-1 Kaituozhe-1 (KT-1) was a small, solid fueled ...

, which uses the prefix ''KT'' * Kennitala (kt.), the Icelandic identification number