SPT may refer to:

Organisations

Society for Philosophy and Technology The Society for Philosophy and Technology (SPT) is an independent international organization founded in 1976 whose purpose is to promote philosophical consideration of technology. SPT publishes ''Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology'', a t ...

Strathclyde Partnership for Transport Strathclyde Partnership for Transport (SPT) is a regional transport partnership for the Strathclyde area of western Scotland. It is responsible for planning and coordinating regional transport, especially the public transport system in the ar ...

, Scotland *

Sunpentown Sunpentown () is a Taiwanese appliance manufacturing company founded in Keelung, Taiwan in 1985 under the name Sunpentown Electric Company. The company specializes in manufacturing home and kitchen appliances. According to the website, the company' ...

, a Taiwanese appliance manufacturer

Science and technology

Septic pelvic thrombophlebitis Septic pelvic thrombophlebitis (SPT), also known as suppurative pelvic thrombophlebitis, is a rare postpartum complication which consists of a persistent postpartum fever that is not responsive to broad-spectrum antibiotics, in which pelvic infect ...

, a postpartum complication *

Serine C-palmitoyltransferase In enzymology, a serine ''C''-palmitoyltransferase () is an enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction: :palmitoyl-CoA + -serine \rightleftharpoons CoA + 3-dehydro--sphinganine + CO2 Thus, the two substrates of this enzyme are palmitoyl-C ...

, an enzyme catalyst * Shortest processing time in single machine scheduling *

Single-particle tracking Single-particle tracking (SPT) is the observation of the motion of individual particles within a medium. The coordinates time series, which can be either in two dimensions (''x'', ''y'') or in three dimensions (''x'', ''y'', ''z''), is referred to ...

within a medium *

Skin prick test Skin allergy testing comprises a range of methods for medical diagnosis of allergies that attempts to provoke a small, controlled, allergic response. Methods A microscopic amount of an allergen is introduced to a patient's skin by various mean ...

, in diagnosis of allergies *

South Pole Telescope The South Pole Telescope (SPT) is a diameter telescope located at the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station, Antarctica. The telescope is designed for observations in the microwave, millimeter-wave, and submillimeter-wave regions of the electrom ...

Standard penetration test The standard penetration test (SPT) is an in-situ dynamic penetration test designed to provide information on the geotechnical engineering properties of soil. This test is the most frequently used subsurface exploration drilling test performe ...

, used to measure soil properties *

Stationary Plasma Thruster In spacecraft propulsion, a Hall-effect thruster (HET) is a type of ion thruster in which the propellant is accelerated by an electric field. Hall-effect thrusters (based on the discovery by Edwin Hall) are sometimes referred to as Hall thruste ...

, a type of ion engine ion for spacecraft *

Symmetry-protected topological order Symmetry-protected topological (SPT) order is a kind of order in absolute zero, zero-temperature quantum-mechanical states of matter that have a symmetry and a finite energy gap. To derive the results in a most-invariant way, renormalization gro ...

, in zero-temperature matter *

Social penetration theory The social penetration theory (SPT) proposes that interpersonal communication moves from relatively shallow, non-intimate levels to deeper, more Intimate relationship, intimate ones as relationships. The theory was formulated by psychologists Irw ...

, a proposed theory of relationship development

Mathematics

Shortest-path tree In mathematics and computer science, a shortest-path tree rooted at a vertex ''v'' of a connected, undirected graph ''G'' is a spanning tree ''T'' of ''G'', such that the path distance from root ''v'' to any other vertex ''u'' in ''T'' is the sho ...

, a type of graph *

Spt function The spt function (smallest parts function) is a function in number theory that counts the sum of the number of smallest parts in each integer partition of a positive integer. It is related to the partition function. The first few values of spt(''n ...

or smallest parts function, related to partition function

Train stations

Sandpoint station Sandpoint station is a train station along Amtrak's ''Empire Builder'' line in Sandpoint, Idaho, as well as the only operating Amtrak station in Idaho. The station site is owned by BNSF Railway. The station building is the oldest remaining act ...

, a railway station in Sandpoint, Idaho *

Spotswood railway station Spotswood railway station is a commuter railway station on the Werribee and Williamstown lines, which are part of the Melbourne railway network. It serves the western suburb of Spotswood, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, and opened on 1 De ...

, Melbourne *

Springhurst railway station Springhurst railway station is located on the North East line in Victoria, Australia. It serves the town of the same name, and opened on 29 November 1873 as Springs. It was renamed Springhurst in October 1890.Stockport railway station Stockport railway station serves the market and industrial town of Stockport in Greater Manchester, England. It is located 6 miles south-east of , on a spur of the West Coast Main Line to . History The Manchester and Birmingham Railway opene ...

(station code)

Other uses

* Stochastic portfolio theory *

Super Powered Tracer , sometimes translated as ''Blue Meteor SPT Layzner'', is a science fiction anime series produced by Sunrise between 1985 and 1986. It was originally written by Tsunehisa Itō with Ryōsuke Takahashi as series' director. The series focuses ...

, in anime ''Blue Comet SPT Layzner'' *

Substantial Presence Test The Substantial Presence Test (SPT) is a criterion used by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in the United States to determine whether an individual who is ''not'' a citizen or lawful permanent resident in the recent past qualifies as a "resident ...

, US criterion for residency *

Sony Pictures Television Sony Pictures Television Inc. (abbreviated as SPT) is an American television production company, production and broadcast syndication, distribution studio. Based at the Sony Pictures Studios complex in Culver City, California, it is a division o ...

, TV production and distribution arm of Sony Pictures Entertainment {{disambiguation