Apt

Apt or APT may refer to:

As an acronym

• Arbitrage Pricing Theory
• Asia-Pacific Telecommunity
• Advanced Persistent Threat
• Advanced Passenger Train

Places

• Apt, Vaucluse, a commune of the Vaucluse département of France
• Arrondissement of Apt, an arrondissement in the Vaucluse département of France
• Apt, Poland; Yiddish language designation for Opatow

Organizations

• Apt Records, a subsidiary record label of ABC-Paramount Records
• Alabama Public Television, a network of Public Broadcast TV stations
• American Players Theatre, a classical theater located in Spring Green, Wisconsin
• American Public Television, a television program provider in the United States
• Applied Predictive Technologies, a statistical business analysis software company
• Applied Probability Trust, a UK-based non-profit-making foundation for study and research in the mathematical sciences
• APT Entertainment, a film production company in the Philippines
• Art in Perpetuity Trust, a London-based charity
• Artist Pension Trust, an investment program designed for artists
• ASEAN Plus Three, an international organisation
• Association for Public Transportation, a Boston-based nonprofit organization
• Alternative Petroleum Technologies, an environmental energy technology company

Medicine

• Apt test, a medical test used to differentiate fetal or neonatal blood from maternal blood
• APTT or Activated partial thromboplastin time, a performance indicator measuring efficacy

Technology

• Atom-probe tomography, an atomic-resolution microscopy technique
• Attached Proton Test, a technique used in Carbon-13 NMR spectroscopy
• Automatic Picture Transmission, a weather satellite system
• Advanced Passenger Train, an ambitious passenger train designed during late 1970s; also British Rail APT-E, the prototype unit
• Advanced Persistent Threat, term commonly used to refer to cyber threats, in particular that of Internet enabled espionage, but applicable equally to other threats such as that of traditional espionage or attack.

Computing

• APT (programming language), Automatically Programmed Tool – a high-level computer programming language
• Advanced Packaging Tool, Debian's high-level package management system, also used by other Linux-based operating systems.
• Almost Plain Text, or Doxia, a wiki-like syntax used mainly by Apache Maven
• annotation processing tool, a utility for executing annotation processors in the Java programming language

People

• Jerome Apt, Ph.D. (born 1949), an American astronaut

Other

• Apartment, a self-contained housing unit that occupies only part of a building
• APT (film), a 2006 South Korean horror film
• Apt meteorite of 1803, which fell in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France (see Meteorite falls)
• Apt. (album), an album by Chilean singer Nicole
• Asian Poker Tour, a major poker tour focusing on the Asia-Pacific region
• Automated payment transaction tax, a proposal to replace all taxes with a single tax on each and every transaction in the economy
• Airport, abbreviated to apt

See also

• Association of Public Television Stations (APTS)