APT Definition

advanced passenger train
noun

(Brit)
1. A lightweight electrically-powered train, designed to run at 250km/h (156mph) and to tilt on curves, which did not progress beyond the prototype stage.

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apartment
noun

1. A single room in a house or flat.
2. A set of rooms used for accommodation, usually in a large building.

Thesaurus: rooms, living quarters, flat, condominium, penthouse, tenement, suite, lodgings, pad (slang).
Form: apartments
(N Amer)
3. A self-contained set of rooms for living in, usually all on one floor, in a large building that is divided into a number of similar units. Brit equivalent flat 2.

Etymology: 17c: from French appartement, from Latin appartire to apportion.

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APT
abbreviation

1. Advanced passenger train.

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apt
adj

1. Suitable.

Thesaurus: appropriate, suitable, fit, proper, applicable, apropos, germane, befitting, timely, pertinent, seemly, meet.
2. Clever or quick to learn.

Derivative: aptly
adverb

Derivative: aptness
noun

Idiom: apt at something

Ready and quick to learn or understand it.
Example: She is apt at foreign languages

Idiom: apt to do something

Inclined or likely to do it.
Example: Harry is apt to have illusions
Thesaurus: likely to, inclined to, prone to, tending to, liable to, disposed to, given to.

Etymology: 14c: from Latin aptus fit.

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apt.
apt
abbreviation

1. Apartment.