APT

See also: apt, Apt, apt., and ap't

English

Noun

APT (plural APTs)

1. Initialism of automation presses tooling.
2. (UK, rail transport) Initialism of advanced passenger train.
3. (US) Abbreviation of apartment, preferred by the United States Postal Service; compare Apt. and apt..
4. (cybersecurity) Initialism of advanced persistent threat.
   • 2025 March 6, Ryan Naraine, “How Social Engineering Sparked a Billion-Dollar Supply Chain Cryptocurrency Heist”, in SecurityWeek‎^[1]:

     The FBI has linked the incident to a North Korean APT it tracks as TraderTraitor, which the agency has been monitoring since 2022 for its attacks on blockchain companies.

5. Initialism of arbitrage pricing theory.
6. (UK, healthcare) Initialism of anatomical pathology technologist.
7. (biochemistry) Initialism of acyl protein thioesterase.

Proper noun

APT

1. (computing) Initialism of automatically programmed tool: a high-level language for numerically controlled machine tools.
2. (computing) Initialism of advanced packaging tool: a package management system used by Debian and Debian-based distributions, also used by other Linux distributions.
3. Initialism of Alabama Public Television.
4. Initialism of American Public Television.

Anagrams

• tPA, atp, pat, pta., PTA, TPA, tap, PAT, ATP, TAP, Pat