apt

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Words With Friends: 6
Letters: 3

Pronunciation

/æpt/

Definition of apt

16 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

Suitable; appropriate; fit or fitted; suited.

“an apt metaphor”
“apt punishment”
“a river […] apt to be forded by a lamb”
“While we to Jove the pure libations pay, / Than Jove what apter claims the hallow'd lay?”

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adj

Suitable; appropriate; fit or fitted; suited.

“an apt metaphor”
“apt punishment”
“a river […] apt to be forded by a lamb”
“While we to Jove the pure libations pay, / Than Jove what apter claims the hallow'd lay?”
Having a habitual tendency; habitually liable or likely; disposed towards.

“This tree, if unprotected, is apt to be stripped of its leaves by a leaf-cutting ant.”
“that lofty pity with which prosperous folk are apt to remember their grandfathers”
“Since sick people were apt to be present, he could not always depend on a lively young crowd in the same ward with him, and the entertainment was not always good.”
Ready; especially fitted or qualified (to do something); quick to learn.

“a pupil apt to learn”
“an apt scholar”
“Fulfill your pleasure. Live a thousand years, / I shall not find myself so apt to die.”

noun

(abbreviation, alt-of)Abbreviation of apartment.

“Where our apt used to be they built a fancy condominium high-rise. Which at a lowly income none of us could ever really quite afford.”
(abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of automation presses tooling.
(UK, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of advanced passenger train.
(US, abbreviation, alt-of)Abbreviation of apartment, preferred by the United States Postal Service; compare Apt. and apt..
(abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of advanced persistent threat.

“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.”
(abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of arbitrage pricing theory.
(UK, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of anatomical pathology technologist.
(abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of acyl protein thioesterase.

name

(abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of automatically programmed tool: a high-level language for numerically controlled machine tools.
(abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of advanced packaging tool: a package management system used by Debian and Debian-based distributions, also used by other Linux distributions.
(abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of Alabama Public Television.
(abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of American Public Television.
A surname.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From Old French apte, from Latin aptus (“suitable, fitting”). Either from obsolete apere (“to fasten, to join, to fit”), akin to apisci (“to reach, attain”) (compare with Greek ἅπτειν (áptein, “to fasten”) and Sanskrit आप्त (āpta, “fit”), from आप् (āp, “to reach, attain”)) or from *h₂ep- (“to join, fit (in)”).