PT

See also: pt, Pt, pT, pt., .pt, P.T., -pt', p.t, and p.t.

Translingual

Etymology 1

Symbol

PT

1. (metrology) Symbol for petatesla, an SI unit of magnetic flux density equal to 10¹⁵ teslas.

Etymology 2

Symbol

PT

1. (international standards) ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for Portugal.

   Synonym: PRT (alpha-3)

English

Noun

PT (countable and uncountable, plural PTs)

1. (hematology) Initialism of prothrombin time.
2. (medicine) Initialism of physical therapist; also P.T.
3. (medicine) Initialism of physical therapy.
4. (law) Initialism of parenting time.
5. Initialism of physical training.
6. (music) Initialism of passing tone.
7. (military, US) Initialism of patrol torpedo.
8. Initialism of personal trainer.
   • 2023 June 5, Rebecca Gillam, “18 celebs who swear by weight training, from Adele to Millie Mackintosh & Frankie Bridge”, in Women's Health‎^[1]:

     As her famously no-BS longtime PT Don Saladino, who has a next-level celeb roster (oh HAIII, Anne Hathaway and Emily Blunt!), told WH: ‘It’s about improving your body’s resilience and energy […] making sure we’re optimising everything we do’.

9. Initialism of public transport or public transit.

Synonyms

• (parenting time): visitation

See also

• (prothrombin time): PR, INR

Proper noun

PT

1. Initialism of Pacific Time.
2. (Egyptology) Initialism of Pyramid Texts.
3. Abbreviation of Protactile.
   • 2013 February 18, Christine Amanda Roschaert, “Pro-Tactile: The DeafBlind Way!!!”, in Tactile the World‎^[2], WordPress, archived from the original on 2014-11-20:

     It is in my personal opinion, that PT provides so much more background, action, information and inclusion than Haptic, however, some aspects of Haptic could be integrated into PT to create an even more extensive tool for the Deafblind.

Synonyms

• (Pacific Time): PDT (UTC -7)
• (Pacific Time): PST (UTC -8)

Adjective

PT (not comparable)

1. (of a job) Initialism of part-time.

   Coordinate term: FT

2. Initialism of pressure-treated.

Anagrams

• TP, tp

Azerbaijani

Noun

PT

1. Initialism of proqram təminatı.

Galician

Proper noun

PT m

1. (politics, historical) Initialism of Partido da Terra.

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpete]

Noun

PT (first-person possessive PTku, second-person possessive PTmu, third-person possessive PTnya)

1. (business) initialism of perseroan terbatas (“limited company”).
2. (education) initialism of perguruan tinggi (“higher education institution”).

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpe ˈte/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈpe ˈte/

Noun

PT f

1. Initialism of perda total.

Noun

PT m or f by sense (plural PTs)

1. PT (“personal trainer”)

Proper noun

PT m

1. (Brazil, politics) Initialism of Partido dos Trabalhadores.

Derived terms

• petismo
• petista
• petralha

 

Swedish

Alternative forms

• pt

Noun

PT c

1. Initialism of personlig tränare.

Declension

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