Bat (disambiguation)

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Bat can refer to:

• The bat, a flying mammal of the order Chiroptera
• A piece of ball sports equipment, such as a baseball bat, cricket bat or ping pong bat
• An alternative transliteration of Bata, the name of a minor goddess in early Egyptian mythology
• bat, A Hebrew word, meaning "daughter" or "daughter of." It is also used in Jewish names such as Rachel bat Moshe, which means Rachel daughter of Moshe. This form is used in Jewish religious life. Compare to ben.
• The Bat, an operetta by Johann Strauss II better known as Die Fledermaus
• a model of roller coaster
• Two Royal Navy ships named HMS Bat
• The radar-guided, air-to-surface "Bat" glide bomb
• Bat, Oman
• A pipe sometimes used for smoking cannabis. Also known as a one-hitter since it only provides one inhaled dose.

In computing, Bat can refer to:

• The Bat!, an e-mail client for Microsoft Windows
• ".bat", the filetype extension for Microsoft Windows batch files
• a metasyntactic variable

Bats (the plural form) can refer to:

• The Louisville Bats, a AAA minor league baseball affiliate of the Cincinnati Reds, based in Louisville, Kentucky.
• Bats, a Caucasian people and their language
• Bats, Landes, a commune of the Landes département of France
• Bats, a 1999 film starring Lou Diamond Phillips
• Bats, a musical written in 1983 by two Australians
• The Bats, a New Zealand rock band

[edit] See also

• BAT