Apt

Apt may refer to:

Places
  • Apt, Vaucluse, a commune of the Vaucluse département of France
  • Arrondissement of Apt, an arrondissement in the Vaucluse département of France
  • Apt, Poland; Yiddish language designation for Opatow
People
  • Jerome Apt, Ph.D. (born 1949), an American astronaut
  • Leonard Apt, inventor of the Apt test
Other
  • Apt Records, a subsidiary record label of ABC-Paramount Records
  • Apt test, a medical test used to differentiate fetal or neonatal blood from maternal blood
  • Apartment, a self-contained housing unit that occupies only part of a building
  • Apt meteorite of 1803, which fell in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France (see Meteorite falls)
  • Apt. (album), an album by Chilean singer Nicole
  • Airport, abbreviated to apt
  • APT, acronym for Advanced Portfolio Technologies, a provider of risk management systems and portfolio optimization software for asset managers, hedge funds, pension funds, broker/dealers and proprietary traders, acquired by SunGard Financial Systems on March 5, 2008.

Famous quotes containing the word apt:

    “We are apt to say that a foreign policy is successful only when the country, or at any rate the governing class, is united behind it. In reality, every line of policy is repudiated by a section, often by an influential section, of the country concerned. A foreign minister who waited until everyone agreed with him would have no foreign policy at all.”
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    “One is apt to be discouraged by the frequency with which Mr. Hardy has persuaded himself that a macabre subject is a poem in itself; that, if there be enough of death and the tomb in one’s theme, it needs no translation into art, the bold statement of it being sufficient.”
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    “You ask if there is no doctrine of sorrow in my philosophy. Of acute sorrow I suppose that I know comparatively little. My saddest and most genuine sorrows are apt to be but transient regrets. The place of sorrow is supplied, perchance, by a certain hard and proportionately barren indifference. I am of kin to the sod, and partake of its dull patience,—in winter expecting the sun of spring.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)