Belt

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Belt may refer to:

Apparel

• Belt (clothing), a leather or fabric band worn around the waist
• Championship belt, a type of trophy used primarily in combat sports
• Colored belts, such as a black belt or red belt, worn by martial arts practitioners to signify rank in the kyū ranking system

Geology

• Orogenic belt
• Greenstone belt
• A large-scale linear or curved array or belt of igneous rocks (e.g. Transscandinavian Igneous Belt)
• A large-scale linear or curved array of mineral deposits (e.g. Bolivian tin belt)
• Paired metamorphic belts

Mechanical and vehicular

• Belt (mechanical), a looped strip of material used to link multiple rotating shafts
• Conveyor belt, a device for transporting goods along a fixed track
• Belt manlift, a device for moving people between floors in a building or grain elevator.
• Seat belt, a safety device in automobiles and on the plane
• Timing belt, part of an internal combustion engine
• Serpentine belt, move accessories of a combustion engine.
• Belt track, a type of track used on Caterpillar-style vehicles
• Belt armor, a layer of heavy metal armor plated onto or within the outer hulls of warships
• Belt (firearms), a type of ammunition used in light machine guns, like the M240 and Mk 48.
• Steel belt, a type of conveyor belt

Places

• Belt, North Holland
• Belt, Montana, United States
• Belt Parkway, a series of highways around New York City, United States
• Danish belts, several straits in and around Denmark:
  • Great Belt
  • Little Belt
  • Fehmarn Belt
• Any of several informally defined elongated regions of the United States and elsewhere
• Belts, Yiddish name of Bălți, Moldova
• Il-Belt, Maltese name of Valletta, Malta

Astronomy

• Asteroid belt, a region of the solar system between Mars and Jupiter
• Gould Belt, a partial ring of stars representing the local spiral arm to which the Sun belongs
• Kuiper belt, a region of the solar system beyond the orbit of Neptune
• Orion's Belt

People with the surname

• Thomas Belt (1832–1878), English geologist and naturalist
• Francis Walter Belt (1862–1938), Australian naval commander, lawyer, and explorer
• Philip Belt (1927–2015), American piano builder
• Brandon Belt (born 1988), American baseball player
• Dustin Belt (born 1987), American musician, producer, and actor

Other uses

• Belting (music), a singing technique
• The Belt, a 1989 erotic drama film
• Judas belt, a firework
• Green belt, a policy and land use designation used in land use planning
• Belt problem, a mathematics problem
• Belt Supergroup, a group of Mesoproterozoic sedimentary rocks
• Belt Publishing, an American publisher

See also

• Balteus (disambiguation)
• Category:Belts (clothing)
• Below the belt
• Beltway

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