Cat (disambiguation)

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Cat most commonly refers to the domestic cat, Felis catus, or Felis silvestris catus

Cat may also refer to:

Animals

• Any member of the Felidae, the biological family of the cats, including lions, tigers, pumas, leopards and wildcats

In names

Cat is also a name, or a nickname for names such as Catherine and its variants.

In fictional characters

• Cat, a character on a Nickelodeon show Victorious, played by Ariana Grande
• Cat (Red Dwarf), a character in the TV show Red Dwarf
• Cat, Holly Golightly's cat in the film Breakfast at Tiffany's
• The Cat, a fictional character from the novel Animal Farm
• Cat, Peg + Cat's blue cat character

In places

• Cat or Cait, a common name for the Kingdom of Cait, a Pictish kingdom during the Dark Ages
• Çat, a town and district of Erzurum Province in the Eastern Anatolia region of Turkey
• Çat Dam, an embankment dam on the Abdülharap River, located near Çelikhan in Adıyaman Province, Turkey
• CAT, an abbreviation of Catalunya

In science and technology

• Cat state, a special quantum state
• Catalytic converter, colloquially named cat, a component of the exhaust system of a vehicle
• Cat, the category of small categories in category theory
• CAT(k) space
• The Cat, a marketing name of the HSC INCAT 046 vessel, a ferry
• cat (Unix), a standard Unix utility that concatenates and lists files

In other uses

• Cat (zodiac), a Vietnamese sign
• Katten (Danish ship) ("Cat"), a vessel of the historic Dano-Norwegian Navy
• Street name for the drug methcathinone
• .cat (Catalan pronunciation: [ˈpunt ˈkat]), a sponsored top-level domain intended to be used to highlight the Catalan language and culture

In abbreviations and acronyms

CAT or C.A.T. may refer to:

Companies and organizations

• CAT Telecom, a telecom operator, in Thailand
• Cambridge Antibody Technology (officially: Cambridge Antibody Technology Group Plc,), was a biotechnology company headquartered in Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
• Caterpillar Inc., a manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, turbines and engines
• Centre for Alternative Technology, an eco-centre in Powys, mid-Wales, UK

Science, medicine and technology

• CAT(k) space, a specific type of metric space
• CAT, a type of measurement category in electrical circuits (CATI, CATII, CATIII, CATIV)
• CAT (phototypesetter) (stylized as GSI C/A/T for Computer Assisted Typesetter), a phototypesetter developed by Graphic Systems in 1972
• Catadioptric system, an optical system, informally a cat, particularly in telescopes
• Catalase, an enzyme
• Cherenkov Array at Themis, an atmospheric Cherenkov imaging telescope dedicated to gamma-ray astronomy
• Chloramphenicol acetyltransferase, an enzyme
• Cognitive analytic therapy, a psychological therapy
• Computed axial tomography or CAT scan, a medical imaging X-ray technology
• Computerized adaptive testing
• Conidial anastomosis tubes, specialised hyphae emerging from some asexual fungal spores
• Cosmic Anisotropy Telescope, an astronomical telescope

Sports

• Club Atlético Talleres, a sports club in Córdoba, Argentina
• Club Atlético Tucumán, a football club in Tucumán, Argentina

Transportation

• A bus agency in Camarillo, California
• Canby Area Transit, a public transit agency serving Canby, Oregon, USA and vicinity
• Capital Area Transit (Harrisburg), a public transit agency serving the Harrisburg region, Pennsylvania, USA
• Capital Area Transit (Raleigh), a public transit agency serving the Raleigh region, North Carolina, USA
• Center for Appropriate Transport
• Chatham Area Transit, a public transit agency serving the Savannah region, Georgia, USA
• City Airport Train, a public transit agency serving between the city and the airport of Vienna, Austria
• Civil Air Transport, a Chinese airline form 1946 to 1986, in later years owned
• Clear-air turbulence, a kind of turbulence that is potentially dangerous for air transport
• Clemson Area Transit, a public transit agency serving the Clemson region, South Carolina, USA
• Collier Area Transit public transportation system in Collier County, Florida
• Perth Central Area Transit, free public-transport buses in Perth, Australia

Other

• Canadian Army Trophy, a NATO tank gunnery competition
• CAT (magazine), an international civil simulation and training journal
• Central Africa Time, a time zone used in central and southern Africa
• Certified Accounting Technician, a qualification recognized in the UK
• Coital alignment technique, a sexual position designed to maximize clitoral stimulation
• Common Admission Test, an entrance exam conducted by the Indian Institutes of Management
• Competition Appeal Tribunal, a law in the United Kingdom
• Computer-assisted translation or computer-aided translation
• Computerized adaptive testing, a method for administering tests
• Counter Assault Team, a unit within the United States Secret Service
• Committee against Torture, a body of human rights experts that monitors implementation of the United Nations Convention Against Torture

See also

• Category (disambiguation) ("category" is sometimes abbreviated to "cat")
• Cats (disambiguation)
• Kat (disambiguation)
• Qat (disambiguation)
• The Cat (disambiguation)

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