Cat (disambiguation) explained

See also: Cats (disambiguation). The cat (Felis catus) is a domesticated feline species.

Cat or CAT may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Comics

Cat (comics), a list of several characters
Confidential Assassination Troop, a manhua by Fung Chin Pang from 2003

Film and television

Cat, the title character of the 1965 film Cat Ballou
Cat (Red Dwarf), a character in the sci-fi sitcom
Cat, a character in the animated television series CatDog
Cat MacKenzie, a character in Family Affairs
Cat Valentine (Victorious), a character in Victorious and Sam & Cat
Cat (TV series), Indian crime thriller streaming television series
Cat, from Peg + Cat

Music

Cat #1 (album), a 1994 album by Peter Criss
"Cat", a track on the 2011 album Minecraft – Volume Alpha by C418
"Cat", a song on the 2016 album Air for Free by Relient K

Video games

, 2003

Businesses and organisations

United States

Caterpillar Inc. (simply known as CAT), a manufacturer of construction and mining equipment
Secret Service Counter Assault Team

United Kingdom

Cambridge Antibody Technology, a biotechnology company
Centre for Alternative Technology, a charity and eco-centre in Wales
Competition Appeal Tribunal, a public body

Other businesses and organisations

CAT Telecom, a telecoms operator in Thailand
Committee Against Torture, a UN treaty body
Crew Against Torture (Russia), a Russian non-governmental organisation

Education

Common Admission Test, in India
Cognitive Abilities Test (CogAT), in the US
Computerized adaptive testing, a method for administering tests

Linguistics

Catalan language (ISO 639-2 and -3 code: cat)
Central Atlas Tamazight, a language in North Africa
Communication accommodation theory, in sociolinguistics

Science and technology

Biology and medicine

Calibrated automated thrombogram, a coagulation test
CAT scan or CT scan, a medical imaging X-ray technology
Combat application tourniquet, a tourniquet developed for use in field combat situations
Conidial anastomosis tubes, a specialised hyphae emerging from some asexual fungal spores
Cognitive analytic therapy, a psychological therapy

Animals

Felidae (the cats or felids), a family of Carnivorans
- Pantherinae (big cats), a subfamily
- Felinae (small cats), the other subfamily

Biochemistry

CAT, the gene for Catalase
Chloramphenicol acetyltransferase, an enzyme and antibiotic resistance gene
Methcathinone or cat, a drug

Computing

Cat, categories of twisted pair network cabling
CAT (phototypesetter) (Computer Assisted Typesetter), a 1972 phototypesetter
cat (Unix), a Unix utility that concatenates and lists files
Cat, a clone of the Apple II home computer
Canon Cat, a desktop computer
Computer-assisted translation or computer-aided translation
Computer aided transceiver
Novation CAT, a modem series
.cat, a top-level domain for Catalan language and culture

Mathematics

Cat, the category of small categories in category theory
CAT(k) space, a type of metric space

Physics

Catadioptric system, in optics
Cherenkov Array at Themis, an atmospheric Cherenkov imaging telescope
Cosmic Anisotropy Telescope, a former telescope near Cambridge, UK

Other technology

Catalyst (cat.), in chemistry
- Catalytic converter, an exhaust device

People

Cat (nickname), a list of people with the nickname
Cat Glover (born 1968), American choreographer, dancer and singer
Cat Power (born 1972), American singer-songwriter (real name: Charlyn Marshall)
Cat Rambo (born 1963), American writer and editor
Cat Stevens (born 1948), British singer-songwriter (real name: Yusuf Islam)

Places

Çat, a town and district in Erzurum Province, Turkey
Çat Dam, on the Abdülharap River in Adıyaman Province, Turkey
Kingdom of Cat, an early-Mediaeval Pictish kingdom in what is now Scotland
Cat Cays, a pair of reef islands in the Bahamas
Cat Island (disambiguation)

Transportation

American bus transit systems

Camarillo Area Transit, Camarillo, California
Canby Area Transit, Oregon
Capital Area Transit (Harrisburg), Pennsylvania
Capital Area Transit (Raleigh), North Carolina
Clemson Area Transit, South Carolina
Collier Area Transit, Florida
Cities Area Transit, North Dakota

Aviation

Civil Air Transport (CAT, former ICAO code: CAT), a former Chinese airline, in later years owned by the CIA
, a defunct airline of France
Clear-air turbulence

Other transportation

Caterham railway station (station code: CAT), Surrey, England
Center for Appropriate Transport, a community center for bicycles in Eugene, Oregon, US
City Airport Train, Vienna, Austria
Cat, an early collier ship type
Perth Central Area Transit
Catamaran, a boat with two hulls

Other uses

Talleres de Córdoba or Club Atlético Talleres, a sport club from Córdoba, Argentina
Cat (zodiac), a Vietnamese/Gurung zodiac sign
Canadian Army Trophy, a tank gunnery competition
Central Africa Time, a time zone
Certified Accounting Technician
Coital alignment technique, a sexual position
Community asset transfer, a UK legal process
Cat o' nine tails or cat, a flogging instrument
A draw, in a game of tic-tac-toe

See also