Belt

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Belt can refer to the following objects:

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• Belt (clothing), a part of clothing worn around the waist to hold trousers up or as a fashion accessory
• Police duty belt, a belt worn by police officers, which is designed to hold equipment
• Sam Browne belt, a wide military belt, usually made of leather, supported by a strap going diagonally over the right shoulder
• Money belt
• Belt (mechanical), a looped, flexible connection, used for power transmission
• Conveyor belt, a device for transporting goods along a fixed track
• Belt (firearm), a single row of cartridges which are held together with cloth or metal links, for use in a (typically automatic) firearm.
  • Bandolier
• Judas belt
• A leather belt as attribute of certain Confraternities of the Cord and/or as penitential device.
• A championship in combat sports such as boxing, mixed martial arts and professional wrestling, which is used as the equivalent of a trophy and awarded to the winner of a championship in a sport
• Dance belt, an undergarment worn by male dancers
• Belt track, the common term for Kégresse track, a kind of track drive that uses reinforced flexible belts instead of linked belts for traction
• Chastity belt
• In automobiles:
  • A safety or seat belt
  • Fan belt
  • An engine timing belt
• Photon belt
• Vocal belting, a singing technique.
• Belt problem (in mathematics)
• Thomas Belt (1832–1878), English geologist and naturalist
• Belt (recording artist)
• In astronomy:
  • An asteroid belt or main belt, a cluster of asteroids orbiting a star. There is one in our solar system, located between Mars and Jupiter.
  • The Kuiper belt, an area of the solar system extending from within the orbit of Neptune. Objects within the Kuiper Belt are referred to as trans-Neptunian objects (a type of minor planet) or asteroids.
  • The Oort Belt or Oort cloud, an area located outside the orbit scattered disc and Pluto's orbit where comets are presumed to be formed
• In geology and geography, a belt is a region with a roughly elongated form, or sometimes a sequence of roughly parallel forms, as in
  • "Belt" regions of Canada
  • "Belt" regions of the United States
  • University Belt, unofficial name of a de facto sub-district in Manila, Philippines

As a geographical name it also refers to the following places:

• The Belts, the straits of the Baltic Sea between Germany, Denmark and Sweden
• Belt, Montana, a small city in Cascade County, Montana, U.S.
• Belt (Netherlands), a small village on the former island of Wieringen, in the Dutch province of North Holland
• Belt Parkway, a circumferential highway in Brooklyn and Queens, NY.

[edit] See also

• Balteus

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