Forte or Forté may refer to:

Music

Forte (music) In music, the dynamics of a piece are the variation in loudness between note (music), notes or phrase (music), phrases. Dynamics are indicated by specific musical notation, often in some detail. However, dynamics markings require interpretation ...

, a musical dynamic meaning "loudly" or "strong" * Forte number, an ordering given to every pitch class set * Forte (notation program), a suite of musical score notation programs * Forte (vocal group), a classical crossover singing trio

Computing

* Forté 4GL, a proprietary application server * Forté Agent, an email and news client used on the Windows operating system * Forte TeamWare, a family of development environments from Sun Microsystems * NetBeans IDE, formerly Forté for Java

Companies

* Forte Design Systems, an American software company * Forte Group, a former British hotel company * Forté Internet Software, makers of Forté Agent * Forte Land, a Chinese large-scale real estate company * Forte Oil PLC, former name of Ardova Plc, a Nigerian energy group * Trust House Forte, a British hotel and catering firm

Fictional characters

* Forte Stollen, a character from the Galaxy Angel anime * Bass (''Mega Man''), a character in ''Mega Man'' known as "Forte" in Japanese * Bass.EXE, a character from the ''MegaMan NT Warrior'' series known as "Forte" in Japanese *Forte, a character in '' Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas''

Ships

*, various Royal Navy ships * ''Forte''-class frigate, two French Navy warships ** French frigate ''Forte'' (1794), in service 1794–1801

Other uses

* Forte (surname) * 8780 Forte, an asteroid * FORTE, Fast On-orbit Rapid Recording of Transient Events satellite *

Forte (fencing) In fencing, forte (from the Romance root meaning "strong") is "the strong part" of the blade—the one-third closest to the hilt. The "strength" refers to the control established over the opponent's weapon upon contact of one's forte with the op ...

, a fencing term for the "strong" part of the blade *

Forte (typeface) Forte is a script typeface, script typeface designed by Austrians, Austrian commercial artist Carl Reissberger on May 8, 1962, for the Monotype Corporation. It started in Windows Vista and ended in 8.1. Design The idea for the script face came fro ...

, included in various editions of Microsoft Office *

Forte (horse) Forte (foaled February 3, 2020) is a retired champion American Thoroughbred racehorse. As a two-year-old, he won the Graded stakes race, Grade I Hopeful Stakes, Breeders' Futurity and Breeders' Cup Juvenile en route to being named American Champ ...

, an American thoroughbred race horse *

Kia Forte The Kia Forte (), known as the K3 in Asia, the Forte K3 or Shuma in China and Cerato in South America, Australia, New Zealand and Russia, is a compact car manufactured by South Korean automaker Kia from mid-2008 until 2024, replacing the Kia S ...

, a mid-size sedan car *

Mitsubishi Forte The is a group of autonomous Japanese multinational companies in a variety of industries. Founded by Yatarō Iwasaki in 1870, the Mitsubishi Group traces its origins to the Mitsubishi zaibatsu, a unified company that existed from 1870 to 1946 ...

, original name of the Mitsubishi Triton, a mid-size pickup truck *

FC Forte Taganrog FC Forte Taganrog () was a Russian football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''foo ...