KT

KT, kT or kt may refer to:

Arts and media

• Karlstads-Tidningen, a Swedish newspaper released in Karlstad
• Knight (chess), a board game piece (as used in notation)
• KT (film), a 2002 Japanese political thriller
• KT Bush Band, group formed by musician Kate Bush

Businesses and organizations

• AirAsia Cambodia (IATA code KT)
• Birgenair (IATA code KT), a former Turkish charter airline company with headquarters in Istanbul, Turkey
• 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
• KT Corporation, a telecommunications company in South Korea, formerly Korea Telecom

People

• Krzysztof Teodor Toeplitz (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 (born 1975), Scottish singer-songwriter

Places

Europe

• KT postcode area, UK, covering south west London and north Surrey in England
• Kastoria, Greece (vehicle plate code KT)
• Kitzingen, Germany (vehicle plate code KT)
• Kutina, Croatia (vehicle plate code KT)
• Tarnów, Poland (vehicle plate code KT)

Elsewhere

• Christmas Island, an Australian territory in the Indian Ocean with the NATO country code KT
• Katy, Texas, formerly known as the "KT stop" on the Kansas-Texas-Missouri railroad line
• Kuala Terengganu, a city in Malaysia
• East Kalimantan, Indonesia (vehicle registration prefix KT)

Science and technology

Geology

• Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, abbreviated K-T or K-Pg event, a mass extinction of species about 66 million years ago
• K–Pg boundary, formerly K-T boundary, the transition between the Cretaceous and Paleogene eras

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 (kt), a measure of energy released in explosions
• motor torque constant (K_T)
• Knot (unit), 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"

Other uses in science and technology

• Kaituozhe (rocket family), which uses the prefix KT
• Kardashev scale, used to rank an advanced civilization's level of technology
• Klippel–Trénaunay syndrome, a medical condition
• Kotlin, a programming language for the Java virtual machine

Titles

• Knight Bachelor (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

• Kennitala (kt.), the Icelandic identification number
• Knowledge transfer

See also

• Kati (disambiguation)
• Katie
• Katy (disambiguation)