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Altay (main battle tank)
The Altay (MİTÜP Altay) is a Turkish main battle tank, the country's first domestically designed tank, named after General Fahrettin Altay, which entered serial production in 2025.
Altay Bayındır
Altay Bayındır (born 1998, Bursa) is a Turkish goalkeeper, Manchester United's first Turkish player (2023, from Fenerbahçe), now on loan at Celta Vigo, a Turkey international and Euro 2024 quarter-finalist.
Altay botanical garden
Altay Botanical Garden (Алтайский ботанический сад, Алтай ботаникалық бағы), founded 7 January 1935 in Ridder, Kazakhstan; a research institution for plant introduction holding 1,632 species across 37 ha of expositions, a protected natural territory.
Altazor
Altazor, full title Altazor o el viaje en paracaídas, is a long poem in seven cantos by the Chilean poet Vicente Huidobro, published in Madrid in 1931.
Altazor Award
The Altazor Award, formally Premio Altazor de las Artes Nacionales, was an annual Chilean prize honoring national artistic work across literature, music, visual arts, performing arts, and audiovisual media.
ALTBalaji
ALTBalaji, rebranded ALTT, was an Indian subscription streaming service operated by a subsidiary of Balaji Telefilms, launched in 2017 and discontinued in 2025 after a government blocking order over obscene content.
Altbier
Altbier (Alt): cold-conditioned, top-fermented amber beer from Düsseldorf, Germany, developed in the late 19th century; IBU 25-50, ABV 4.3-5.5%, brewed by Altstadt house breweries such as Uerige and Schumacher.
ALTEN
ALTEN is a French engineering and IT services company founded in 1988, headquartered in Boulogne-Billancourt near Paris and listed on Euronext Paris, with about 57,000 employees.
Altenberg bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track
Rennschlitten- und Bobbahn Altenberg (SachsenEnergie-Eiskanal): artificial-ice bobsleigh, skeleton, and luge track in the Kohlgrund, Saxony. Secret GDR project from 1982/83, rebuilt after design failure, world championships since 1991.
Altenstadt
Altenstadt, German for "old town", names several places, chiefly Altenstadt (Hessen) in the Wetterau, site of a Roman Limes fort from about 85 AD to 259/60; also places in Bavaria, Vorarlberg, and Baden-Württemberg.
Altenworth
USC Kirchberg/Altenwörth (Altenworth) is an Austrian football club in Kirchberg am Wagram, Lower Austria, founded 25 April 1937 as USC Kirchberg am Wagram; merged with USC Altenwörth in 2018, plays at Sportpark Kirchberg.
Alteogen
Alteogen is a South Korean biotechnology company founded in Daejeon in 2008 by Park Soon-jae, known for its Hybrozyme platform, which Merck chose for a subcutaneous version of Keytruda.
Alteplase
Alteplase (Activase, Actilyse) is a recombinant tissue plasminogen activator thrombolytic for acute ischemic stroke, myocardial infarction, massive pulmonary embolism, and catheter occlusion; FDA approved 1987, 0.9 mg/kg stroke dosing, main risk bleeding.
Alter (robot)
Alter (オルタ) is a humanoid robot developed by Osaka University and the University of Tokyo, first shown in 2016 and expressing lifeness through chaotic movement rather than human appearance.
Alter Botanischer Garten (Switzerland)
The Alter Botanischer Garten, or Old Botanical Garden, is a public park in central Zurich, Switzerland, laid out in 1837 and formerly the University of Zurich's botanical garden.
Alter Bridge
Alter Bridge: American hard rock band formed January 2004 in Orlando, Florida, by ex-Creed members Mark Tremonti, Brian Marshall, and Scott Phillips with vocalist Myles Kennedy. Eight studio albums from One Day Remains (2004) to the self-titled 2026 release on Napalm Records.
Alter Bridge (album)
Alter Bridge is the self-titled eighth studio album by American hard rock band Alter Bridge, released January 9, 2026 on Napalm Records. Recorded at 5150 Studios and produced by Michael "Elvis" Baskette, with singles "Silent Divide" and "What Lies Within".
Alter ego
Alter ego, Latin for 'another self,' means a second identity of a person: Cicero's trusted friend, an author's fictional double (Pessoa, Bukowski), a psychological secondary self, or a chosen persona, distinct from the involuntarily dissociated alters of DID.
Alter Ego (Doechii and JT song)
"Alter Ego" is a March 29, 2024 single by Doechii featuring JT, produced by Zach Witness, sampling Robin S's "Show Me Love"; Doechii calls its house-hip-hop blend "editorial rap", later Grammy-nominated via Kaytranada remix.
Alter Ego (Lisa album)
Alter Ego is the 2025 debut solo studio album by Blackpink's Lisa, released via LLOUD Co./RCA Records on February 28, 2025. Fifteen tracks built around five personas; debuted at No. 7 on the Billboard 200.
Alter-globalization
Alter-globalization, also called alternative globalization or alter-mundialization, is a transnational social movement favoring global cooperation while opposing neoliberal globalization's harms; its central expression is the World Social Forum under the slogan "another world is possible".
Altera
Altera is an American semiconductor company that designs FPGAs; founded in 1983, it was acquired by Intel in 2015 and became majority-owned by Silver Lake in 2025.
Altered (2024 film)
Altered (2024 film) is Timo Vuorensola's sci-fi action film starring Tom Felton as Leon, a disabled inventor in a genetically stratified dystopia; shot in Kazakhstan, released November 21, 2025, distinct from Altered Reality (2024).
Altered Beast
Altered Beast (獣王記, Jūōki) is Sega's 1988 arcade beat 'em up directed by Makoto Uchida on System 16B hardware, where Zeus revives a warrior to save Athena from Neff via Spirit Ball beast transformations; it was the Genesis/Mega Drive launch pack-in.
Altered Carbon
Altered Carbon, 2002 cyberpunk novel by Richard K. Morgan (Gollancz; US Del Rey 2003), first Takeshi Kovacs book: cortical stacks store consciousness, resleeving swaps bodies, Meths buy immortality; Philip K. Dick Award 2003; Netflix series 2018.
Altered Carbon (TV series)
Altered Carbon is a Netflix cyberpunk noir series (2018–2020, 2 seasons, 18 episodes) adapted by Laeta Kalogridis from Richard K. Morgan's 2002 novel, starring Joel Kinnaman and Anthony Mackie as Takeshi Kovacs; cancelled after season 2.
Altered Images
Altered Images, Scottish new wave band formed in Glasgow in 1979, fronted by Clare Grogan; hits "Happy Birthday" (UK No 2) and "I Could Be Happy"; albums Happy Birthday, Pinky Blue, Bite, and 2022's Mascara Streakz.
Altered level of consciousness
Altered level of consciousness (ALOC), also called altered mental status, is decreased responsiveness to external stimuli, ranging from lethargy and confusion through stupor to coma, and accounts for up to 10% of emergency department complaints.
Altered scale
The altered scale, also called super Locrian or diminished whole-tone, is the seventh mode of the melodic minor scale, used in jazz over altered dominant seventh chords (G7alt) because it contains every altered tension and resolves smoothly to the following chord.
Altered state of consciousness
An altered state of consciousness is a condition in which psychological experience differs substantially from a person's ordinary state. Changes may involve self-awareness, emotion, the sense of time or place, responsiveness to.