# KT

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**KT**, **kT** or **kt** may refer to:

## Arts and media

- *[Karlstads-Tidningen](/source/Karlstads-Tidningen)*, a Swedish newspaper released in Karlstad
- [Knight (chess)](/source/Knight_(chess)), a board game piece (as used in notation)
- [*KT* (film)](/source/KT_(film)), a 2002 Japanese political thriller
- KT Bush Band, group formed by musician [Kate Bush](/source/Kate_Bush)

## Businesses and organizations

- [AirAsia Cambodia](/source/AirAsia_Cambodia) (IATA code KT)
- [Birgenair](/source/Birgenair) (IATA code KT), a former Turkish charter airline company with headquarters in Istanbul, Turkey
- [Kataller Toyama](/source/Kataller_Toyama), a football club in Japan
- [Kensington Temple](/source/Kensington_Temple), a Pentecostal church in west London, UK
- [Koei Tecmo](/source/Koei_Tecmo), a holding company created in 2009 by the merger of Japanese video game companies Koei and Tecmo
- [KT Corporation](/source/KT_Corporation), a telecommunications company in South Korea, formerly Korea Telecom

## People

- [Krzysztof Teodor Toeplitz](/source/Krzysztof_Teodor_Toeplitz) (active mid-late 20th century), dissident Polish journalist known as K.T., brother of film educator [Jerzy Toeplitz](/source/Jerzy_Toeplitz#Personal_life)
- [KT Manu Musliar](/source/KT_Manu_Musliar) (born 1934), Indian Islamic scholar, orator, and writer
- [K. T. McFarland](/source/K._T._McFarland) (born 1951), American government official and political commentator
- [K. T. Oslin](/source/K._T._Oslin) (1942–2020), American country music singer and songwriter
- [K.T. Sankaran](/source/K.T._Sankaran) (born 1954), Indian judge
- [KT Sullivan](/source/KT_Sullivan), American singer and actress
- [KT Tunstall](/source/KT_Tunstall) (born 1975), Scottish singer-songwriter

## Places

- [Christmas Island](/source/Christmas_Island), an Australian territory in the Indian Ocean with the NATO country code KT
- [Kastoria](/source/Kastoria), Greece (vehicle plate code KT)
- [Katy, Texas](/source/Katy,_Texas), formerly known as the "KT stop" on the Kansas-Texas-Missouri railroad line
- [Kitzingen](/source/Kitzingen), Germany (vehicle plate code KT)
- [KT postcode area](/source/KT_postcode_area), UK, covering south west London and north Surrey in England
- [Kuala Terengganu](/source/Kuala_Terengganu), a city in Malaysia
- [Kutina](/source/Kutina), Croatia (vehicle plate code KT)
- [Tarnów](/source/Tarn%C3%B3w), Poland (vehicle plate code KT)

## Science and technology

### Physics and chemistry

- Kt, karat or [Carat](/source/Carat_(purity)), in analyzing gold alloys
- [*kT* (energy)](/source/KT_(energy)), in physics, used as a scaling factor for energy values in molecular-scale systems
- [Kilotesla](/source/Kilotesla) (kT), a unit of magnetic flux density
- [Kiloton](/source/Kiloton) (kt), a measure of energy released in explosions
- [motor torque constant](/source/Motor_constants#Motor_Torque_constant) (KT)
- [Knot (unit)](/source/Knot_(unit)), a unit of velocity (although "kn" is the preferred symbol)
- [Kosterlitz–Thouless transition](/source/Kosterlitz%E2%80%93Thouless_transition) in statistical mechanics

### Vehicles

- *Kriegstransporter*, a series of World War II German merchant ships (*KT 1* - *KT 62*), such as *[KT 3](/source/KT_3)*
- [King Tiger](/source/King_Tiger), a German tank designed during World War II
- KT for *Krylatyj Tank*, the [Antonov A-40](/source/Antonov_A-40) tank, also nicknamed the "flying tank" or "winged tank"

### Medicine

- [Klippel–Trénaunay syndrome](/source/Klippel%E2%80%93Tr%C3%A9naunay_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](/source/Cretaceous%E2%80%93Paleogene_extinction_event) or K-Pg event, formerly named the Cretaceous-Tertiary or KT event, a mass extinction of species about 66 million years ago
- [K–Pg boundary](/source/K%E2%80%93Pg_boundary), formerly the K-T boundary, geologic abbreviation for the transition between the Cretaceous and Paleogene eras
- [Kardashev scale](/source/Kardashev_scale), an abbreviation of a method to rank an advanced civilization's level of technologic advance
- [Kotlin](/source/Kotlin), an abbreviation of a programming language for the Java virtual machine

## Titles

- [Knight Bachelor](/source/Knight_Bachelor) (Kt), part of the British honours system
- [Knight of the Thistle](/source/Knight_of_the_Thistle) (KT), a member of the Order of the Thistle
- [Knight Templar](/source/Knight_Templar), top degree of York Rite system - freemansory

## Other uses

- [Kaituozhe (rocket family)](/source/Kaituozhe_(rocket_family)), which uses the prefix *KT*
- [Kennitala](/source/Kennitala) (kt.), the Icelandic identification number
- [Knowledge transfer](/source/Knowledge_transfer)
- KT, [vehicle registration prefix](/source/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Indonesia) for East Kalimantan, Indonesia

## See also

- [Kati (disambiguation)](/source/Kati_(disambiguation))
- [Katie](/source/Katie)
- [Katy (disambiguation)](/source/Katy_(disambiguation))

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