PT

PT, Pt, or pt may stand for:

Places

• Portugal's ISO country code
  • Portuguese language ISO 639 alpha-2 code
• Palestinian territories, comprise the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) and the Gaza Strip
• Petronas Towers, a pair of towers in Kuala Lampur, Malaysia
• Park and Tilford Gardens, a 3-acre (12,000 m2) botanical garden in the City of North Vancouver
• Pulau Tiga, an island in South China Sea
• Petah Tikva, a city in Israel
• Port Townsend, Washington, a city in Jefferson County, WA, in the United States
• Pacific Time Zone, a time zone that observes standard time by subtracting eight hours from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC−8)

Types of places

• Port, a location on a coast or shore containing one or more harbors where ships can dock and transfer people or cargo to or from land
• Point, a prominent mass of land that overlooks lower-lying land or a body of water

Mathematics, science, and technology

Mathematics

• Pythagorean theorem, related to sides of right angled triangles

Units of measurement

• Pt., an abbreviation for Pint, a unit of volume or capacity
• Pt., an abbreviation for Point, a unit of measure used in typography.
• pt, a measurement in the print industry for thickness of card stock

Botany And Forestry

• Petunidin, an anthocyanidin plant pigment
• a symbol for Peat in the Unified Soil Classification System

Chemistry

• Platinum, a chemical element
• Periodic table of elements
• Polythiophene, a molecule

Computers and Internet

• Panorama Tools, a suite of programs and libraries originally written by the German physics and mathematics professor Helmut Dersch
• Pro Tools, a digital audio workstation platform from Digidesign
• .pt, an internet top-level domain name for Portugal
• pt, is the IETF language tag for Portuguese (see: Language localisation#Language tags and codes)

Engineering

• Post-tensioned concrete, a reinforcement method used by structural engineers (see Prestressed concrete)
• Pressure treated wood (see wood preservation)
• P_t or Total pressure is measured by pitot tubes and used to calculate airspeed

Electrical

• Potential transformer, abbreviation for type of electrical instrument transformer

Geology

• Pressure and temperature, often used in the phrase "PT conditions" in reference to metamorphism

Medicine

• pt, Patient, a medical abbreviation
• PT, Physical Therapy, Physical Therapist or Physiotherapy (CanEng)
• Pararosaniline, Toluidine histological stain
• Percutaneous surgery
• Prothrombin time, a measurement of blood coagulation

Diseases

• Mitochondrial permeability transition, a loss of impermeability of the membranes of mitochondria
• Pulmonary hypertension, an increase of blood pressure in the pulmonary artery, pulmonary vein, or pulmonary capillaries
• Phyllodes tumor, a rare breast tumor

Physics

• Pt is the symbol, in Particle physics formulae, for the transverse momentum (the momentum that is perpendicular to the beamline of a particle detector)
• P_t, or Total pressure is used in fluid dynamics

Transportation

• PT Cruiser, a car model made by Chrysler
• PT boat, a type of small fast ship used by the US Navy in World War II
• PT., an abbreviation for Public Transit, or Public Transport

Society

• Perpetual traveler or "permanent tourist"
• Pt., an abbreviation for Pandit, a Hindu honorific applied to certain scholars of law, religion, philosophy or music

Business

• Capital Cargo International Airlines IATA airline designator
• West Air Sweden IATA airline designator
• Putnam Transit, a bus system that serves Putnam County, New York
• Portugal Telecom, the largest telecommunications service provider in Portugal
• Part-time employment

Finance

• Price target, alternative form of target price

Law

• Pro tempore, a Latin phrase "for the time being" (temporary)

Military

• Physical Training (see Physical fitness), commonly abbreviated PT in the United States military
• PT boat, a type of small fast ship used by the US Navy in World War II

Political parties

• Partido dos Trabalhadores (Worker's Party), a Brazilian political party
• Parti des travailleurs (Workers' Party), a French political party
• Partido del Trabajo (Labour Party), a Mexican political party

Entertainment

Bands

• Porcupine Tree, a British progressive rock group

Games

• Priston Tale, a 2001 MMORPG developed in South Korea
• Prison Tycoon, a 2005 video game
• Pokémon Platinum, a 2008 video game for the Nintendo DS
• P.T. or PT, a playable teaser for the video game Silent Hills

Films

• Prequel trilogy, Episodes 1, 2, and 3 of the Star Wars film series and or may be subject to copyright

Music theory

• Passing Tone, one of many nonharmonic tones that is approached by step and then continues by step in the same direction

Sports

• Pro Tour (disambiguation)
• Personal trainer, in fitness and bodybuilding
• PT BIZ is business management software for Personal Trainers.