Cat (disambiguation)

See also: Cats (disambiguation)

A cat is a domesticated mammal of the Felis catus species.

Cat or CAT may also refer to:

Animals

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

Arts and entertainment

Comic books

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

Film and television

• the title character of Cat Ballou, a 1965 film
• Cat (Red Dwarf), a character on the sci-fi sitcom
• Cat, a character on CatDog
• Cat MacKenzie, a character on Family Affairs
• Cat Valentine (Victorious), a character in Victorious and Sam & Cat

Music

• Cat Records, 1954–1956, an R&B subsidiary of Atlantic Records
• Cat Records (TK label), 1969–1980
• Cat #1, a 1994 album by Peter Criss
• "Cat", by C418 from Minecraft - Volume Alpha, 2011
• "Cat", a song by Relient K from the 2016 album Air for Free

Video games

• C.A.T.: Cyber Attack Team, 2003

Businesses and organisations

See also: § Transportation and aviation

Based in the United States

See also: § American bus transit systems

• Caterpillar Inc., a manufacturer of construction and mining equipment
• Secret Service Counter Assault Team

Based in the United Kingdom

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

Other businesses and organisations

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

Education

• Common Admission Test, in India
• Cognitive Abilities Test, in the United States
• Computerized adaptive testing, a method for administering tests

Elsewhere

• 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)

Science, technology and mathematics

Biology, medicine and psychology

Biochemistry

• CAT, the gene for Catalase
• Chloramphenicol acetyltransferase, an enzyme and antibiotic resistance gene
• Methcathinone or cat, a drug
• TAT, a codon for the amino acid Histidine

Psychology

• Communication accommodation theory
• Cognitive analytic therapy

Other uses in biology and medicine

• Calibrated automated thrombogram (CAT or CT), 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

Computing

• 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

Mathematics

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

Other technologies

• Catadioptric system, in optics
• Catalytic converter, an exhaust device
• Cherenkov Array at Themis, an atmospheric Cherenkov imaging telescope
• Cosmic Anisotropy Telescope

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

Turkey

• Çat, a town and district in Erzurum Province
• Çat Dam, on the Abdülharap River in Adıyaman Province

Sports

• Talleres de Córdoba, also known as Club Atlético Talleres, a sport club from Córdoba, Argentina

Transportation and aviation

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

Aviation

• CAT (magazine), a civil airline simulation and training journal
• Civil Air Transport, a former Chinese airline, in later years owned by the CIA
• Clear-air turbulence
• Compagnie Air Transport, a defunct airline of France

Other uses in transport

• Caterham railway station, Surrey, England
• Center for Appropriate Transport, a community center for bicycles in Eugene, Oregon
• City Airport Train, Vienna, Austria
• (Whitby) cat, an early collier (ship) type
• Perth Central Area Transit

Other uses

• Cat (zodiac), a Vietnamese sign
• .cat, a top-level domain for Catalan language and culture
• Canadian Army Trophy, a tank gunnery competition
• Central Africa Time, a time zone
• Certified Accounting Technician
• Coital alignment technique, a sexual position
• Cat o' nine tails or the cat, a flogging instrument
• cat, ISO 639-2 and -3 codes for the Catalan language

See also

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