What does ALT mean?
Definitions for ALT
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Princeton's WordNet
elevation, EL, altitude, ALTnoun
angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object)
Wiktionary
altnoun
One of a player's alternate or secondary characters.
Altnoun
A modifier key.
ChatGPT
alt
In different contexts, "alt" can have different meanings: 1. In computing, it often refers to the "Alt" key on keyboards, mainly used for keyboard shortcuts or to generate special characters. 2. It is often used as an abbreviation for "alternative," referring to a choice or option outside the mainstream or norm. 3. In aviation, it stands for "altitude," referring to the height of an object or point in relation to sea level or ground level. 4. In music, "alt" can refer to a type of deviation in the performance of a piece, such as alt fingering or alt position. 5. In medical terms, it typically stands for alanine aminotransferase, an enzyme found primarily in the liver and kidney. 6. In internet culture, "alt" can refer to a secondary online account used in addition to a user's primary account. 7. In HTML programming, the "alt" attribute is used to specify alternative text to be displayed if an image cannot be displayed.
Webster Dictionary
Alt
the higher part of the scale. See Alto
Etymology: [See Alto.]
Wikidata
Alt
ALT was a one-off band, featuring former New Zealand band Split Enz frontman Tim Finn, Northern Irish singer/songwriter Andy White and the frontman of the Irish band Hothouse Flowers, Liam Ó Maonlaí, that recorded and played together in 1995. The band's name was created out of the letters of their first names. They released two albums. The first was the studio album Altitude, was recorded in Periscope Studios in Melbourne, Australia. It had thirteen tracks, and it included references and influences to the musical and cultural traditions in which the participants grew up. The second was Bootleg, a live recording from The Continental in Sydney, Australia. Both albums were recorded and released in 1994-1995. They toured briefly around Europe after the album was released. Finn re-recorded an ALT song as the title track and first song for his 2001 EP, What You've Done. The ALT version is the second track of that EP. Finn also included his new take on the song in the Feeding the Gods album the same year. In 2004, Ó Maonlaí joined Finn on stage in Dublin, during a Finn Brothers concert, and they performed one of the ALT songs. The three have worked together on each others' solo projects from time to time.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Alt
alt, n. high tone, in voice or instrument.—In alt, in the octave above the treble stave beginning with G; (fig.) in an exalted and high-flown mood.
The New Hacker's Dictionary
alt
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. 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”. 4. n.,obs. Rare alternate name for the ASCII ESC character (ASCII 0011011). This use, derives, with the alt key itself, from archaic PDP-10 operating systems, especially ITS.
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Surnames Frequency by Census Records
ALT
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Alt is ranked #5850 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Alt surname appeared 5,906 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 2 would have the surname Alt.
90.8% or 5,364 total occurrences were White.
2.7% or 165 total occurrences were Asian.
2.7% or 161 total occurrences were Black.
1.9% or 116 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
1.4% or 85 total occurrences were of two or more races.
0.2% or 15 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of ALT in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of ALT in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
Examples of ALT in a Sentence
Alt-right extremist networks are very good at circumventing existing legislation( policies and practices on platforms). New Zealand telecom executives use irony and sarcasm to spread hateful ideas and hide New Zealand telecom executives behind memes, the alt-right has tapped into this in a way that no jihadist movement has.
I am alive physically, but, digitally speaking, there has been execution squads across the alt-right and it is something like the Night of the Long Knives.
3 KEYS to a happy life ... CTRL+ALT+DEL. CONTROL your emotions, Look for an ALTERNATIVE, DELETE the past,and move on
Portland is unique in that we seem to be ground zero for alt-right groups to come into our town because they know they’ll get a response – and they do.
Agent Orange refused to repudiate the Klan, the alt-right and the Nazis, 'There's good people on both sides.' That's going to be on his gravestone.
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