Article: Alt

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ALT may stand for:

• ALT (band), a group of musicians, the members of which are Andy White, Liam O'Maonlai and Tim Finn
• ALT Linux, a distribution of Linux computer software, or a team of developers that work on the software
• Assistant Language Teacher, the job title of people employed on the Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) programme
• Alanine transaminase, an enzyme in the liver
• Alternative Lengthening of Telomeres, a mechanism (other than telomerase) that cells use to maintain telomere length
• Argon Laser Trabeculoplasty, a method of eye surgery
• Approach and Landing Tests, conducted by NASA during the Space Shuttle program
• The Amtrak station at Altoona, Pennsylvania, USA
• The National Rail station at Altrincham, United Kingdom
• One of a number of alternate bannered U.S. highways
• Anti leech tracker, a BitTorrent tracker which controls traffic of their clients

Alt may also mean:

• Alt key, the key on a computer keyboard used to change the function other keys
• Alternative music, a form of rock music with diverse multi-genre influences, often associated with indie rock
• Alt.* hierarchy, a hierarchy of USENET newsgroups
• Alt attribute, an attribute in Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), whose value is text that is normally used to indicate the function of an image in situations where the image is not displayed
• River Alt, a river in Merseyside, United Kingdom
• Alternate character, a secondary character created by a player of Multi-User Dungeon (MUD) games or Massively Mutliplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPG)
• Altbier, a variety of German beer

Alt is also the name of:

• A.L.T. (rapper) (born 1970)
• Carol Alt (model) (born 1960)
• Franz Alt (mathematician) (born 1910)
• Franz Alt (journalist) (born 1938)