Cat (disambiguation)

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 tigers, pumas, and wildcats

Science and Technology

• CAT(k) space, a specific type of metric space
• Cat state, a special quantum state
• Cat, the category of small categories in category theory
• cat (Unix), the concatenate program in the Unix operating system
• .cat, a top-level domain, applying to the whole Catalan-speaking community
• The terminology used to refer to categories of Structured cabling, e.g.
  • "cat 5" for Category 5 cable

People

Cat is also a nickname, usually but not always for the feminine first name Catherine or its variants. People with this name include:

• Cat Deeley (born 1976), English television presenter
• Cat Osterman (born 1983), American softball player
• Cat Stevens (born 1948 as Steven Demetre Georgiou), British musician and philanthropist now known as Yusuf Islam
• Cat Whitehill (born 1982), American soccer player
• Cat Cora (born 1967 as Catherine Cora), American chef

Fictional characters

• Cat (Red Dwarf), a character in the TV show Red Dwarf
• Cat, Holly Golightly's cat in the movie Breakfast at Tiffany's
• Cat, a character on a Nickelodeon show Victorious, played by Ariana Grande

Places

• Cat, common name for the Kingdom of Cait, a Pictish kingdom during the Dark Ages
• Çat, a town and district of Erzurum Province, Turkey
• Çat Dam, a dam in Adıyaman Province, Turkey

Other uses

• Cat (zodiac), a Vietnamese sign
• Catalytic converter, colloquially named cat, a component of the exhaust system of a vehicle

Abbreviations

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

Companies and organizations

• CAT Catalytic Center, a catalysis research center in Aachen, Germany
• Cambridge Antibody Technology, a UK biotechnology company
• Caterpillar Inc., a manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, turbines and engines
• Centre for Alternative Technology, an eco-centre in Powys, mid-Wales, UK

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
• City Airport Train, a public transit agency serving between the city and the airport of Vienna, Austria
• Chatham Area Transit, a public transit agency serving the Savannah region, Georgia, USA
• Civil Air Transport, a Chinese airline established in 1946, later owned by the CIA, that stopped its operations in 1968
• 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
• Perth Central Area Transit, a range of buses operating in the free public-transport region of the central city of Perth, Australia
• A minibus agency in Camarillo, California, operating one scheduled line and dial-a-ride services for the disabled

Science, medicine and technology

• Catadioptric optical system, informally a cat, particularly in telescopes
• Catalase, an enzyme
• Chloramphenicol acetyltransferase, an enzyme
• Computed axial tomography or CAT scan, a medical imaging X-ray technology
• Cherenkov Array at Themis, an atmospheric Cherenkov imaging telescope dedicated to gamma-ray astronomy
• Cognitive analytic therapy, a psychological therapy

Other

• Canadian Army Trophy, a NATO tank gunnery competition
• Cap and trade, economic incentives for achieving reductions in the emissions of pollutants
• 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
• Computerized adaptive testing, a method for administering tests
• Computer-assisted translation or computer-aided translation
• Confidential Assassination Troop, a manhua series created by Fung Chin Pang
• United Nations Convention Against Torture, a human rights instrument
• Counter Assault Team, a unit within the United States Secret Service

See also

• The Cat (disambiguation)
• Cats (disambiguation)
• Kat (disambiguation)
• Qat (disambiguation)