PT

PT

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

PT

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

   Synonym: PRT (alpha-3)

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. (US, military, nautical) Initialism of patrol torpedo.
8. (US, military, aviation) Initialism of patrol trainer (“a trainer that is also a patrol aircraft”)

   Coordinate terms: PB, PF, P

9. 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’.

10. Initialism of public transport or public transit.
11. (slang) Initialism of prick tease
    • 1999, Zachary Alan Fox, When the Wind Blows (page 230)

      […] a PT in high school, prick tease. Go out with a guy and get him all hot but not let him put the fire out.

    • 2024, Henry Rex Greene, Marlene: A Murder Mystery (page 23)

      She liked to nurse a highball and flirt with a certain kind of men. In their report the customers called her a “PT” (prick tease).

• (parenting time): visitation

• (prothrombin time): PR, INR

PT

1. Initialism of Pacific Time.
   • 2022 April 4, Susannah Cullinane, Holly Yan, Stella Chan and Cheri Mossburg, “All 6 victims killed in the Sacramento mass shooting are identified as police arrest a suspect”, in CNN‎^[2]:

     CNN is seeking comment from legal representation for Martin. He is scheduled to appear in court Tuesday at 3 p.m. PT (6 p.m. ET).

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^[3], WordPress, archived from the original on 20 November 2014:

     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.

4. Initialism of Central Papua: a province of Indonesia.

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

PT (not comparable)

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

   Coordinate term: FT

2. Initialism of pressure-treated.

• TP, tp

PT

1. initialism of proqram təminatı

PT m

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

PT

1. (economics) abbreviation of Personentag (“man-day”)

   Coordinate term: PS (“man-hour”)

2. (theology) abbreviation of praktische Theologie (“practical theology”)

• IPA^(key): [ˈpete]

PT (plural PT-PT)

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

Initialism of perda total.

PT m (plural PTs)

1. initialism of perda total (“totaled car”)
2. (Brazil, slang) the vomit of a drunk person

   Numa dessas festas, ela ficou tão bêbada que eu tive que catar o PT dela. ― At one of these parties, she got so drunk I had to clean up her sick.

initialism of personal trainer; compare English PT.

PT m or f by sense (plural PTs)

1. PT (personal trainer)

   Synonyms: personal, personal trainer

PT m

1. (Brazilian politics) initialism of Partido dos Trabalhadores (“Workers' Party”)

• pt

PT c

1. initialism of personlig tränare

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