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Fat is a group of compounds that are generally soluble in organic solvents and largely insoluble in water. Another common meaning is a person or animal afflicted with obesity.
Fat or FAT may also refer to:
Biology
- Adipose tissue, body fat
- FAT (gene), protocadherin Fat 1, a protein that in humans is encoded by the FAT1 gene
- Fatty acid translocase, also known as CD36
Arts and entertainment
- Fat (EP), by American punk rock band the Descendents
- "Fat" (song), by Weird Al Yankovic from his album Even Worse
- "Fat", a song by Violent Femmes from the album 3
- Wo Fat, Steve McGarrett's archenemy in the television series Hawaii Five-O
- "Fat" (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit), an episode in season 7 of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
- The Fat, a former Australian television sports talk show
- Fat (novel), by Rob Grant
- "Fat", a short story by Raymond Carver from the collection Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?
Acronyms and initialisms
- Forces Armées Tchadiennes, the armed forces of the country of Chad
- Far Eastern Air Transport, an airline of the Republic of China on Taiwan
- Fashion Architecture Taste, an art and architecture collective based in London
- Field Artillery Tractor, a vehicle for towing field artillery
- File Allocation Table, a widely used DOS and Windows computer file system
- Football Association of Thailand, the governing body of football in Thailand
- Free Art and Technology Lab, a New York based artist group
- Frente Auténtico del Trabajo, (Authentic Labor Front), a Mexican labor confederation
- Fully automatic time, a method of recording times during running events
- Factory acceptance testing, acceptance testing prior to installation
People
- Fan Fat, King of Champa (in what is now Vietnam) from 349 to 380
- Fat Mike Burkett (born 1967), American musician, producer, lead vocalist and bassist for the punk rock band NOFX
- Lafayette Fat Lever (born 1960), American National Basketball Association player
- Ralph Waldsmith (1892-1925), American football player in the early days of the National Football League, nicknamed "Fat"
Other uses
- UBS Mayu, first flagship of the Burmese Navy, originally built as the frigate HMS Fat
- FAT (torpedo), a type of torpedo used by Germany during World War II
- Fat: An Appreciation of a Misunderstood Ingredient, with Recipes, a cookbook
- Fath, Iran, a village also known as Fāt
- IATA code for Fresno Yosemite International Airport, California, USA
- ISO 639-2 and 639-3 codes for the Fante dialect, (Mfantse, Fanti), a formal language (literary dialect) of the Akan language
See also
- Fats (disambiguation)
- Fatty (disambiguation)
- List of people known as the Fat
- Andrew Wong (politician) (born 1943), politician known in Hong Kong as "Uncle Fat" (full name Andrew Wong Wang Fat)
- Fat Joe, stage name of American rapper Joseph Antonio Cartagena (born 1970)
- Fat Albert, a character created by Bill Cosby and star of the animated series Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids
- Fat Tony, a recurring character in The Simpsons
- Gordo (disambiguation), Spanish and Portuguese for "fat"