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APT

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What does APT mean?

adjective

  1. Suitable; appropriate; fit or fitted; suited.
  2. Having a habitual tendency; habitually liable or likely; disposed towards.
  3. Ready; especially fitted or qualified (to do something); quick to learn.
More meanings (14)

noun

  1. Abbreviation of apartment.
  2. Initialism of automation presses tooling.
  3. Initialism of advanced passenger train.
  4. Abbreviation of apartment, preferred by the United States Postal Service; compare Apt. and apt..
  5. Initialism of advanced persistent threat.
  6. Initialism of arbitrage pricing theory.
  7. Initialism of anatomical pathology technologist.
  8. Initialism of acyl protein thioesterase.

proper noun

  1. Initialism of automatically programmed tool: a high-level language for numerically controlled machine tools.
  2. 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.
  5. A surname from German or Yiddish.
  6. A commune of Vaucluse department, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.

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IPA pronunciation

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The first success would be apt to inspire false opinions, which it might require a long course of subsequent experience to correct.
Alexander Hamilton; John Jay; James MadisonThe Federalist PapersProject Gutenberg ebook #18
Signa is apt to be skittish at mealtime, when the men are about, and to spill the coffee or upset the cream.
Willa CatherO Pioneers!Project Gutenberg ebook #24
More book examples (3)
I have a heart as little apt as yours, But yet a brain that leads my use of anger To better vantage.
William ShakespeareThe Complete Works of William ShakespeareProject Gutenberg ebook #100
“My dear fellow, we are rather apt to consider an act wrong because it is unpleasant to us,” said the Rector, quietly.
George EliotMiddlemarchProject Gutenberg ebook #145
The women, her neighbours, were rather foreign to her, and Morel’s mother and sisters were apt to sneer at her ladylike ways.
D. H. (David Herbert) LawrenceSons and LoversProject Gutenberg ebook #217