Belt can refer to the following objects:
- 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
- a region with a roughly elongated form, or a sequence of roughly parallel forms
- 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.
Other
- 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.
- An obi is a belt worn as part of a martial arts uniform
- 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
- Photon belt
- Belt (music), a singing technique.
- Belt problem (in mathematics)
- Thomas Belt (1832–1878), English geologist and naturalist
- Belt (recording artist)
See also
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