Chat

Chat or chats may refer to:

Communication

• Conversation, particularly casual
• Online chat, text message communication over the Internet in real-time
• Synchronous conferencing, a formal term for online chat
• SMS chat, a form of text messaging
• Popular term for internet relay chat.
• Chat room or group chat
• "Video chat" - which implements videotelephony
• Text messaging - person-to-person chat, i.e. non group chat

Entertainment

• Chat (magazine), a British weekly women's magazine
• CHAT-FM, a radio station (94.5 FM) licensed to Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
• CHAT-TV, a television station (channel 6) licensed to Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
• Le Chat, a Belgian comic strip
• Sophia "Chat" Sanduval, a Marvel Comics character
• Chat show, a radio and television format

Places

• Chat, Iran, a village in Iran
• Chat, Kyrgyzstan, a village in Kyrgyzstan
• Chat, Turkmenistan, Russian fort at the mouth of the Sumbar River in 1879
• Chat, California, alternate name of Chats, USA

Science and medicine

• Checklist for Autism in Toddlers, used in autism screening
• Chilean-Hungarian Automated Telescope on Las Campanas, Chile
• Choline acetyltransferase; an enzyme that synthesises acetylcholine
• (Z)-3-hexen-1-ol acetyltransferase, an enzyme

Birds

• there are lots of (birds)

Other uses

• Codes for the Human Analysis of Transcripts, a format used by the CHILDES project
• Community Hebrew Academy of Toronto, a Jewish secondary school in Toronto
• Chat (ppp), an automated conversational script with a modem
• Undesirable or inferior-grade pieces of a commodity
  • Chat (mining), the waste rocks produced in mining
  • Chats, livestock-grade potatoes, considered too small and/or blemished to sell or market for human use but suitable for fodder use
• Chat group's Groups Community
• Choosing Healthplans All Together, a health insurance choosing exercise
• Cultural-historical activity theory in social psychology

See also

• Chaat, Indian and Pakistani savoury snacks
• Khat, a plant with stimulant properties in humans
• Internet Relay Chat
• Chatroulette, service for random chat all around the world