Tilt

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Tilt may refer to:

People

• Luke Tilt (1988-) an English football player

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

Film and television

• 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

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

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".

Other

• Tilt (drink), an alcoholic energy drink

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