Car (disambiguation)

A car, or automobile, motor car, is a wheeled motor vehicle used for transporting passengers.

Car or CAR may also refer to:

Transportation

Vehicles

• Railroad car, a vehicle on a train that is towed by the locomotive
• The cab of an elevator
• A vehicle on a tram (trolley)
• Chariot, an archaic term
• Carriage, an archaic term
• Cart, an archaic term

Media and entertainment

Films

• Cars (franchise), a Disney/Pixar film series
  • Cars (film), a 2006 computer animated film from Disney and Pixar
  • Cars 2, the 2011 sequel
  • Cars (video game), a video game based on the film
• The Car, a 1977 suspense-horror film
• The Car (1997 film), a Malayalam film by Rajasenan starring Jayaram and Janardhanan

Music

• The Cars, an American rock band
  • The Cars (album), their debut album
• "Cars" (song), a 1979 single by Gary Numan
• "Car", a song by Built to Spill on their 1994 album There's Nothing Wrong with Love
• "The Car" (song), a song by Jeff Carson on his 1995 album Jeff Carson
• "Cars" (Fear Factory cover), a single by Fear Factory
• Peter Gabriel (1977 album), one of four albums named Peter Gabriel, often referred to as "Car" because of the photograph on the album cover

Other media

• Car Magazine, a British auto-enthusiast publication
• Cars (painting), a series of paintings by Andy Warhol
• The Car (novel), by Gary Paulsen
• "The Car" (The Assistants episode), the first episode of the Nickelodeon sitcom

Computers

• Car (function), along with cdr, a primitive operation on linked lists in the LISP programming language
• Clock with Adaptive Replacement, a page replacement algorithm
• CAR and CDR, operations used in computer programming
• Computer-assisted reporting, the use of computers in researching news stories
• Computer-assisted reviewing, the use of computer software for more effective text reviewing

Economics and finance

• Capital adequacy ratio, a ratio of a bank's capital to its risk
• Cost Accrual Ratio, an accounting formula
• Cumulative average return, a financial concept related to the time value of money
• Cumulative abnormal return

Military and firearms

• The Canadian Airborne Regiment, a Canadian Forces formation
• Combat Action Ribbon, a United States military decoration
• Colt Automatic Rifle, a 5.56 mm NATO firearm
• CAR-15, a family of AR-15 and M16 rifle-based firearms
• Center Axis Relock, a shooting technique
• U.S. Army Combat Arms Regimental System a 1950s reorganisation of the regiments of the US Army

Organisations

• Action Committee for Renewal (Comité d'Action pour la Renouveau), a political party of Togo
• Canadian Association of Radiologists
• Children of the American Revolution, a genealogical society

People

• Car (King of Caria)
• Car (King of Megara)

Places

• Car, Azerbaijan, a village
• Central African Republic, State in Central Africa
• Cordillera Administrative Region, a region of the Philippines

Science

• Carina (constellation), astronomical constellation abbreviation "Car", as standardized by the International Astronomical Union
• Catecholamine releaser, a hormone releaser
• Canonical anticommutation relation, a concept in quantum field theory
• Cocksackie Adenovirus Receptor, alternative symbol CAR for the human gene CXADR
• Constitutive androstane receptor
• Cortisol awakening response, a physiological response when a person wakes up
• Chimeric antigen receptor, artificial T cell receptors.

Sports

• Confederation of African Rugby, the governing body for rugby unions in Africa
• Carolina Panthers, a football team
• Carolina Hurricanes, an ice hockey team

Other

• Car Allowance Rebate System (CARS), colloquially known as "Cash for Clunkers", a U.S. federal program
• Car language, the most widely spoken of the Nicobarese languages
• Central apparatus room, an equipment room found at broadcasting facilities
• Contractor's all risk (CAR) insurance, see builder's risk insurance
• Center Axis Relock
• The spelling of tsar used in several Slavic languages

See also

• Cars (disambiguation)
• Carr (disambiguation)
• All pages beginning with "Car"
• All pages with titles containing "Car"