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Definition: ALT |
ALTNoun1. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "ALT" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1663. (references) |
Note: Alt \Alt\, adjective. noun [See Alto.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Computing | Alt /awlt/ 1. n. The alt shift key on an IBM PC or clone keyboard; see bucky bits, sense 2 (though typical PC usage does not simply set the 0200 bit). 2. n. The `option' key on a Macintosh; use of this term usually reveals that the speaker hacked PCs before coming to the Mac (see also feature key, which is sometimes _incorrectly_ called `alt'). 3. n.,obs. [PDP-10; often capitalized to ALT] Alternate name for the ASCII ESC character (ASCII 0011011), after the keycap labeling on some older terminals; also `altmode' (/awlt'mohd/). This character was almost never pronounced `escape' on an ITS system, in TECO, or under TOPS-10 -- always alt, as in "Type alt alt to end a TECO command" or "alt-U onto the system" (for "log onto the [ITS] system"). This usage probably arose because alt is more convenient to say than `escape', especially when followed by another alt or a character (or another alt _and_ a character, for that matter). 4. The alt hierarchy on Usenet, the tree of newsgroups created by users without a formal vote and approval procedure. There is a myth, not entirely implausible, that alt is acronymic for "anarchists, lunatics, and terrorists"; but in fact it is simply short for "alternative". Source: Jargon File. |
Space | Altimetry data. (references) |
| Altitude. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
ALT is also the name of a band, the members of which are Andy White, Tim Finn and Liam O'Maonlai.
ALT is also an abbreviation for Assistant Language Teacher, the job title of people on the JET Programme.
ALT was also an acronym by the NASA for the Approach and Landing Tests of the Space Shuttle in 1976.
ALT can mean alternative lengthening of telomeres, a mechanism (other than telomerase) that cells use to maintain telomere length.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "ALT."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
alt | English | Alteration | N/A |
ALT | German | Alaninaminotransferase | N/A |
ALT | Italian | Alanina-aminotransferasi | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: ALTSynonyms: altitude (n), elevation (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: ALT |
| Specialty definitions using "ALT": a56, alt bit, alt.sources, altmode, ANSI standard ♦ B1FF, BOFH, Brian Reid, BUAG ♦ Cancelpoodle, C-BC, Cyclo ♦ digital audio, dogpile, dsp56165-gcc ♦ Eforth, E-Forth ♦ feature key, frink, fsck ♦ gorets ♦ inline image ♦ John Gilmore ♦ Luser Attitude Re-adjustment Tool ♦ meta bit, Motorola 6809 ♦ scary devil monastery, shadow factor, sporgery, squirrelcide ♦ tan alt ♦ xbeeb, x-scm ♦ YKYBHTLW. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "ALT" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Afrikaan (alto, contralto, contralto voice), Catalan (high, lofty, loud, tall), Czech (alto), Danish (everything), Dutch (alt, alto, contralto, contralto voice, countertenor), Faeroese (all, altogether, everything, the), German (aged, alto, ancient, anciently, antiquarian, contralto, hand-me-downs, middle aged, old, olden, same old, stale, traditional), Hungarian (alto, contralto), Irish (article), Italian (foothold, halt, stop), Manx (altitude, alto, glen in mountains, high place, mountain stream), Norwegian (all, everything, the lot), Romanian (additional, another, else, new, other, supplementary), Scottish (condition, joining, joint, order : as an), Serbo-Croatian (alt, alto), Swedish (alto, contralto), Turkish (base, bottom, buttom, inferior, infra, infra-, lower, lower part, Nether, sub-, subordinate, under, underneath, underside). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Cataluña a través del románico: Alt Urgell - Pallars (1971) Får jeg igen Alt hvad jeg ejer (1971) Kjemp for alt hva du har kjært (1970) Alt!... Kai s' efaga - Edo Prokopis (1969) Alt for kvinden (1964) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Valencia. Tros Alt.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Pikes' Peak and Cog Road from Inspiration Point, alt. 7945 feet.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Fort Bayard, New Mexico, Alt. 6132; U.S. Public Health Service Hospital, No. 55; Colonel H. E. Whitledge, Medical Officer in Charge.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Un puntofermo nella confusione : alt.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | ALT testing of volunteer blood donors should be discontinued. (references) | |
Now that sensitive tests for HCV infection in donors are available, the value of ALT must be questioned. (references) | ||
Persons previously deferred for an isolated elevation in ALT only may now be reevaluated for donor eligibility. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "ALT" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 46.81% of the time. "ALT" is used about 94 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 46.81% | 44 | 51,500 |
| Noun (proper) | 24.47% | 23 | 72,767 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 19.15% | 18 | 82,615 |
| Unclassified Items | 5.32% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 4.26% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 94 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "ALT" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Alt | Last name | 1,000 | 11,420 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "ALT": alt bit ♦ in alt ♦ tan alt ♦ To be in alt. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "ALT": Alt-berlin, alt-enter, Alt-r, alt-wiener. | |
Ending with "ALT": x-alt. | |
Containing "ALT": Ctrl-alt-del, Shift-alt-f. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
alt code | 1,672 | alt character | 44 |
alt sex story | 845 | alt.sex.stories text repository | 43 |
alt | 653 | alt sgpt | 42 |
alt sex | 240 | alt com | 39 |
alt binary | 208 | alt country tab | 37 |
carol alt | 187 | newsgroup alt | 36 |
alt story | 127 | alt binary picture newsgroup | 32 |
alt symbol | 87 | alt match maker | 31 |
alt sex story repository | 83 | alt.sex repository story text | 28 |
alt key | 81 | alt erotic story | 27 |
ctrl alt del | 61 | alt ctrl delete | 26 |
alt binary free newsgroup | 60 | alt text | 26 |
alt command | 55 | alt liver | 26 |
alt.music.mp3.winmx newsgroup | 54 | alt key code | 24 |
alt sex story text repository | 53 | alt personals | 23 |
alt sex repository | 52 | alt code msn | 23 |
alt binary newsgroup | 52 | alt.binaries newsgroup | 23 |
alt binary picture | 51 | alt key symbol | 23 |
alt wheels | 49 | alt rim | 22 |
alt country | 45 | alt rock.org | 22 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "ALT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | në plotësim (in alt). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | една октава повече (in alt). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 高度 (Altitude, Amplitude, height, heights, highly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | altistka (alto). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | altzanger (countertenor), altist (countertenor), alt (alto, contralto, contralto voice, countertenor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Altist (alto, countertenor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | violinkulcsban a hangjegyvonalak feletti hangjegy (in alt), tangens magasság (tan alt). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | altay alto (alto). (various references) на октаву выше (in alt). (various references) ioraltan (harmless tricks: *air+ alt). (various references) alt (alto). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "ALT": altar, altarpiece, altarpieces, altars, altazimuth, altazimuths, alter, alterabilities, alterability, alterable, alterably, alterant, alterants, alteration, alterations, altercate, altercated, altercates, altercating, altercation, altercations, altered, alterer, alterers, altering, alternate, alternated, alternately, alternates, alternating, alternation, alternations, alternative, alternatively, alternativeness, alternativenesses, alternatives, alternator, alternators, alters, althaea, althaeas, althea, altheas, altho, althorn, althorns, although, altimeter, altimeters, altimetries. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "ALT": asphalt, basalt, cobalt, dealt, desalt, exalt, gestalt, halt, malt, misdealt, oversalt, oxysalt, persalt, salt, shalt, smalt, stringhalt. (additional references) | |
Words containing "ALT": admiralties, admiralty, asphalted, asphaltic, asphalting, asphaltite, asphaltites, asphalts, asphaltum, asphaltums, basaltes, basaltic, basalts, calthrop, calthrops, caltrap, caltraps, caltrop, caltrops, casualties, casualty, cobaltic, cobaltine, cobaltines, cobaltite, cobaltites, cobaltous, cobalts, commonalties, commonalty, commonwealth, commonwealths, contralto, contraltos, dalton, daltonic, daltons, desalted, desalter, desalters, desalting, desalts, disloyalties, disloyalty, drysalter, drysalteries, drysalters, drysaltery, exaltation, exaltations, exalted. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "ALT" (pronounced Ä"lt) |
| 2 | -l t | adult, asphalt, assault, basalt, belt, bolt, built, catapult, celt, Cobalt, colt, consult, cult, deadbolt, dealt, default, difficult, dwelt, exalt, exult, fault, felt, Gault, gilt, greenbelt, guilt, halt, heartfelt, hilt, Holt, insult, jilt, jolt, kilt, knelt, lilt, malt, melt, Milt, Molt, occult, overbuilt, pelt, quilt, rebuilt, result, revolt, salt, Sault, seatbelt, shalt, silt, smelt, somersault, spilt, stilt, Sunbelt, svelte, thunderbolt, tilt, tumult, unbolt, unbuilt, vault, volt, welt, wilt. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: lat. | |
| Words within the letters "a-l-t" | |
-1 letter: al, at, la, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-l-t" | |
+1 letter: alit, alto, alts, blat, flat, halt, last, late, lath, lati, lats, lota, malt, plat, salt, slat, tael, tail, tala, talc, tale, tali, talk, tall, teal, tela, tola. | |
+2 letters: adult, aglet, alant, alate, alert, alist, allot, aloft, altar, alter, altho, altos, aptly, artal, artel, atilt, atlas, atoll, blast, blate, blats, bleat, bloat, clapt, clast, cleat, dealt, delta, dotal, eclat, elate, exalt, fatal, fatly, fault, fetal, flats, float, flota, gault, gloat, halts, laith, laity, lasts, latch, lated, laten, later, latex, lathe, lathi, laths, lathy, latke, latte, leant, leapt, least, lepta, litai, litas, loath, lotah, lotas, lovat, lutea, lyart, lytta, malts, malty, metal, natal, notal, octal, palet, patly, petal, plait, plant, plate, plats, platy, pleat, ratal, ratel, salts, salty, sault, setal, shalt, slant, slate, slats, slaty, smalt, splat, stale, stalk, stall, steal, stela, tabla, table, taels, tails, talar, talas, talcs, taler, tales, talks, talky, tally, talon, taluk, talus, tamal, teals, telae, telia, tepal, tesla, tical, tidal, tilak, tolan, tolar, tolas, tonal, total, trail, trawl, trial, tubal, typal, ultra, valet, vault, vital, volta, waltz. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 4C 54 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- .-.. - |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01001100 01010100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A L T |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 004C 0054 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)354654 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Quotations: Non-fiction 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Names: Frequency 10. Expressions 11. Expressions: Internet 12. Translations: Modern | 13. Abbreviations 14. Acronyms 15. Derivations 16. Rhymes | 17. Anagrams 18. Orthography 19. Bibliography |
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