Alto (disambiguation)

Last updated February 20, 2025

Alto (Italian for "high") is a musical term that has several possible interpretations.

Places

Alto, Arizona, a ghost town in Santa Cruz County
Alto, California, a former unincorporated community in Marin County
Alto, Georgia, a town divided between Banks County and Habersham County
Alto, Indiana, an unincorporated community in Howard County
Alto, Michigan, an unincorporated community in Kent County
Alto, New Mexico, an unincorporated community in Lincoln County
Alto, Texas, a town in Cherokee County
Alto, Wisconsin, a town in Fond du Lac County
- Alto (community), Wisconsin, an unincorporated community in Fond du Lac County

Alto, a voice part in choral music, sung by either:
- Alto or Contralto, the lowest female voice
- Male alto or contratenor, the highest male voice
Members of a family of instruments, including:
- Althorn, the German name for tenor horn, a brass instrument
- Alto saxophone, a woodwind instrument
Alto, the French name for viola, a string instrument
Alto clef

Direct Fly Alto, a Czech ultralight aircraft
Suzuki Alto, a Japanese car
Maruti Suzuki Alto, an Indian version of the Suzuki Alto
Xerox Alto, an experimental American personal computer
ALTO (interbank network), in Indonesia
ALTO (protocol), a protocol for applications to discover routing costs to different endpoints
ALTO (XML), an open XML standard to describe OCR text and layout information of printed documents
Air-launch-to-orbit, a method of launching rockets at altitude from a conventional horizontal-takeoff aircraft, abbreviated as "ALTO"

Nilfisk-Advance, a supplier of professional cleaning equipment has an Alto brand
ALTO (film), a 2015 American-Italian mob comedy film
Alto's Adventure, a video game
Cirrus cloud#Relation to other clouds, where the prefix "alto-" is applied to cloud genera
Alto (restaurant), a former restaurant in Manhattan, New York City
Alto (rideshare), a United States rideshare company
Alto (high-speed rail), a high-speed passenger rail operator in Canada