Nat (name)

Not to be confused with Gnat.

Nat or NAT may refer to:

• The nick name of Nathaniel or can be used as a first name
• N-acetyltransferase, an enzyme
• Nat., an abbreviation for Natural
• Nat (information), logarithmic unit of information or entropy
• Nat (spirit), Burmese spirit worshipped in Myanmar (Burma) in conjunction with Buddhism
• Nat (Wild Cards), slang term from the novels referring to normal humans uninfected by the Wild Card virus
• Nat, minor character in The Smurfs comics and animated series
• Nat Sherman, brand of natural "luxury cigarettes"
• Nat-trick (natural hat trick), when a player scores three goals consecutively in a single hockey game

• National Actors Theatre, company founded in 1991 by the late actor Tony Randall
• National Assessment & Testing, high school mathematics competition
• Natural antisense transcript, RNA transcript complementary to other RNA transcript in a cell
• Neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia, disease
• Network address translation, in computer networking, a system for reusing IP addresses
• North Atlantic Tracks, trans-Atlantic routes that stretch from the northeast of North America to the west of Ireland across the Atlantic Ocean
• Nouvelle Automotrice Transilienne, railway supply project in France
• Nucleic Acid Testing, test for specific genetic material

People:

• Nat (rapper), born Sheldon Martinez Davis, also known as Natalac or The Original Step Daddy
• Nat Friedman, Chief Technology and Strategy Officer for Open Source at Novell
• Nat Goldhaber, Internet entrepreneur and longtime associate the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
• Nat King Cole, popular American singer & musician during the 1950's
• Nat Turner, aka Nat, early Black American revolutionary
• Nat Wolff, lead singer for the TV series The Naked Brothers Band

"Nat" may be a diminutive for:

• Natalie or Natasha or Natalee or Nathalie
• Nathan
• Nathanael or Nathaniel