Tilt

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Contents 1 Geography 2 People 3 Music 4 Media 5 Science and technology 6 Sports and games 7 Other

Tilt may refer to:

[edit] Geography

• River Tilt, a river in Scotland, United Kingdom

[edit] People

• Luke Tilt (1988-) an English football player

[edit] Music

• Tilt (band), an American punk rock band, 1989 - 2001
• Tilt (album), a 1995 album by Scott Walker
• Tilt (Lightning Seeds album), a 1999 album by Lightning Seeds
• Tilt (producers), a British progressive house and trance music act
• Tilt-Recordings, a German record label
• Tilt (Gladiators), an event played in the television series Gladiators

[edit] Media

• Tilt (film), a 1979 movie starring Brooke Shields
• Tilt (TV series), a U.S. television series, with poker as a backdrop, produced by ESPN
• Tilt (camera), a cinematographic technique in which the camera is stationary and rotates in a vertical plane
• Tilt (radio), a 2008 satirical radio series on BBC 7.

[edit] Science and technology

• Tilt (optics), the average two-dimensional slope of an optical wavefront
• Tilting train, a train that leans while turning to travel faster without causing discomfort to passengers
• Tilt switch, an alternate name for a mercury switch, an electrical switch sensitive to its orientation with respect to gravity
• TILT, the model name for the AT&T branded version of the HTC TyTN II Windows Mobile Pocket PC phone
• Toxicant-induced loss of tolerance, an increased sensitivity to common chemicals also known as multiple chemical sensitivity

[edit] Sports and games

• Tilt (poker), a term for a state of mental frustration in which a poker player knowingly adopts an over-aggressive strategy
• Tilt-lehti, a Finnish video game magazine
• A penalty condition from overly aggressive play in pinball
• A type of armed encounter in the sport of Jousting

In the old mechanical days, slot machines had tilt switches. While modern machines no longer have tilt switches, any kind of mechanical failure (door switch in the wrong state, reel motor failure, etc) is still called a "tilt".

[edit] Other

• Tilt (drink), an alcoholic energy drink

Tilt: A canvas of plastic tarpaulin