Alt or ALT may refer to:

Abbreviations for words

* Alt account, an alternative online identity also known as a

sock puppet account A sock puppet is defined as a person whose actions are controlled by another. It is a reference to the manipulation of a simple hand puppet made from a sock, and is often used to refer to alternative online identities or user accounts used f ...

Alternate character In role-playing games, an alternate character, often referred to in slang as alt, alt char, or less commonly multi, is a character in addition to one's "primary" or "main" player character. Players are generally not secretive about their altern ...

, in online gaming *

Alternate route An official alternate route is a special route in the United States that provides an alternate alignment for a highway. They are loop roads and found in many road systems in the United States including the U.S. Highway system and various state a ...

, type of highway designation *

Alternating group In mathematics, an alternating group is the group of even permutations of a finite set. The alternating group on a set of elements is called the alternating group of degree , or the alternating group on letters and denoted by or Basic pr ...

, mathematical group of even permutations * Alternative lifestyle *

Alternative rock Alternative rock, or alt-rock, is a category of rock music that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1970s and became widely popular in the 1990s. "Alternative" refers to the genre's distinction from mainstream or commerci ...

* Alternative subculture or youth subculture, particularly with regard to fashion or aesthetics ("alt fashion," "alt aesthetics") * Altimeter * Altitude

Acronyms and initialisms

* Aboriginal Land Trust, a type of organisation in Australia * Alanine transaminase, a liver enzyme of the transaminase family * Telomere#Cancer, telomerase and ALT (alternative lengthening of telomeres), Alternative lengthening of telomeres, in cellular biology * Approach and Landing Tests, in space transportation * Argon laser trabeculoplasty, a type of glaucoma surgery * Assistant Language Teacher, in Japan * Association for Learning Technology, in Oxford, England * Accelerated life testing, testing a product in excess of its normal service parameters * International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory, a conference in theoretical computer science

Places and geographical features

* Alt, Greater Manchester, formerly a constituent parish of Limehurst Rural District, near Oldham, England * River Alt, in Merseyside, England * Olt (river) (german: Alt, links=no), river in Romania *Altoona Transportation Center, Pennsylvania, U.S. (Amtrak code ALT) *Altrincham station, in Altrincham, England (National Rail station code ALT)

People

* Alt (surname) * A.L.T. (born 1970), Mexican-American rapper *André Leon Talley, fashion magazine editor

Music

* ALT (band), Andy White, Liam Ó Maonlaí, Tim Finn * ALT (album), ''ALT'' (album), a 2012 music album by Van der Graaf Generator * ALT (EP), ''ALT'' (EP), a 2015 EP by Vanna * Alt-J, band * in alt, singing in the octave above the treble staff (G₅ to F₆) * ALT, a robotic singer with songs in the Bemani game series including Pop'n Music, Reflec Beat and Jubeat

Technology

* Southern Altai language (ISO-639-3 code "alt") * Alt attribute, in HTML computer language * Alt key, on a computer keyboard * ALT Linux, computer software * Alt.* hierarchy, ''alt.*'' hierarchy, in USENET newsgroups

Other

* Altbier, German beer * Alt (film), ''Alt'' (film), a 2013 Venezuelan short film * Alt-right, an abbreviation of alternative right, a loosely connected far-right, white nationalist movement based largely in the United States {{DEFAULTSORT:Alt