KT

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 Swedish newspaper released in Karlstad
 * Knight (chess), a board game piece (as used in notation)

Businesses and organizations

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

People

 * 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
 * Kola Tubosun, Nigerian writer and linguist

Places

 * KT postcode area, UK, covering south west London and north Surrey in England
 * Christmas Island [NATO country code: KT], an Australian territory in the Indian Ocean
 * Kastoria, Greece (vehicle plate code KT)
 * Katy, Texas, named after the railroad line Kansas-Texas-Missouri
 * Kitzingen, Germany (vehicle plate code KT)
 * Kuala Terengganu, a city in Malaysia
 * Kutina, Croatia (vehicle plate code KT)
 * Tarnów, Poland (vehicle plate code KT)

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 (KT)
 * 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"

Medicine

 * Klippel–Trénaunay syndrome, 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 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, method of measuring an advanced civilization's level of technological advancement
 * Kotlin (programming language), 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

 * "Kept Term" as in ATKT (Allowed to keep terms), used in Indian education system
 * KT, acronym for Knowledge transfer, transferring knowledge from one part of an organization to another
 * Kaituozhe (rocket family), which uses the prefix KT
 * Kennitala (kt.), the Icelandic identification number