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
People
- Cat Anderson (1916–1981), American jazz trumpeter
- Cat Cora (born 1968), American chef
- Cat Deeley (born 1976), English television presenter, actress, singer and model
- Cat Doucet (1899-1975), American politician and sheriff
- Cat Glover, American choreographer, dancer and singer
- Cat Osterman (born 1983), American former collegiate softball pitcher
- Cat Rambo (born 1963), American writer and editor
- Cat Stevens (born Steven Demetre Georgiou in 1948), stage name of singer Yusuf Islam
- Cat Power (born 1972), stage name of American singer, songwriter and musician Charlyn Marie Marshall
- Cat Whitehill (born 1982), American soccer player and coach
- Cat Zingano (born 1982), American mixed martial arts fighter
- Nickname for Catherine or Katherine (given name)
Fictional characters
- Cat (comics), a list of various characters
- Cat (Red Dwarf), on the British science fiction sitcom Red Dwarf
- Cat MacKenzie, on the UK soap opera Family Affairs
- Cat Valentine (Sam & Cat), on the Nickelodeon television series Sam & Cat
- Cat Valentine (Victorious), on the Nickelodeon television series Victorious
- Title character of the 1965 Western comedy film Cat Ballou, played by Jane Fonda
- Holly Golightly's cat in the film Breakfast at Tiffany's
- The blue cat character from Peg + Cat
- Cat, on the Nickelodeon series, CatDog
Places
- Çat, a town and district in Turkey
- Çat Dam, an embankment dam on the Abdülharap River, Turkey
- Cat Cays, two cays in the Bahamas
- Cat Island (disambiguation), a list of places with that name
- Kingdom of Cat, a Pictish kingdom during the Dark Ages
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 (Unix), a standard Unix utility that concatenates and lists files
- Canon Cat, a desktop computer
- Novation CAT, a series of early home computers
Other uses
- Cat (zodiac), a Vietnamese sign
- Cat Records, a short-lived subsidiary of Atlantic Records specializing in R&B music
- Cat Records (TK label) (1969–1980), a defunct record label unrelated to the above
- Catalan language, a European language, ISO 639 code
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- .cat, top-level domain to highlight the Catalan language and culture
- Street name for the drug methcathinone
CAT or C.A.T.
Companies and organizations
- CAT Telecom, a telecom operator in Thailand
- Cambridge Antibody Technology, a biotechnology company headquartered in Cambridge, England
- 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 (phototypesetter), Computer Assisted Typesetter, a phototypesetter developed by Graphic Systems in 1972
- CAT(k) space, a specific type of metric space in mathematics
- 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
- Communication accommodation theory, the theory that when people interact they adjust their behaviour to accommodate to others
- Computed axial tomography or CAT scan, a medical imaging X-ray technology
- Conidial anastomosis tubes, specialised hyphae emerging from some asexual fungal spores
- Cosmic Anisotropy Telescope, an astronomical telescope
- CAT, a type of measurement category in electrical circuits
Sports
- Club Atlético Talleres, a sports club in Córdoba, Argentina
- Club Atlético Tucumán, a football club in Tucumán, Argentina
Transportation
- 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, an American community center for bicycles and alternative transport
- Charlottesville Area Transit, the mass transportation provider in Albemarle County, Virginia
- 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 from 1946 to 1976, in later years owned by the CIA
- 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
- A bus agency in Camarillo, California
Other
- CAT (magazine), an international civil simulation and training journal
- Canadian Army Trophy, a NATO tank gunnery competition
- 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 monitoring the United Nations Convention Against Torture
See also
- Category (disambiguation)
- Cats (disambiguation)
- Kat (disambiguation)
- Qat (disambiguation)
- The Cat (disambiguation)
- Pussycat (disambiguation)