Cat (disambiguation)
Appearance
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 pantherine species like leopards, jaguar, lions and tigers, but also smaller genera, like caracal, cheetah, lynx, pumas, wildcats
People
- Cat Anderson (1916–1981), American jazz trumpeter
- Cat Cora (born 1968), American chef
- Cat Deeley (born 1976), English television presenter, actress, singer and model
- Cat Doucet (1899-1975), American politician and sheriff
- Cat Glover, American choreographer, dancer and singer
- Cat Osterman (born 1983), American former collegiate softball pitcher
- Cat Power (born 1972), stage name of American singer, songwriter and musician Charlyn Marie Marshall
- Cat Rambo (born 1963), American writer and editor
- Cat Stevens (born Steven Demetre Georgiou in 1948), stage name of singer Yusuf Islam
- Cat Whitehill (born 1982), American soccer player and coach
- Cat Zingano (born 1982), American mixed martial arts fighter
- Nickname for Catherine or Katherine (given name)
Fictional characters
- Cat (comics), a list of various characters
- Cat (Red Dwarf), on the British science fiction sitcom Red Dwarf
- Cat MacKenzie, on the UK soap opera Family Affairs
- Cat Valentine (Sam & Cat), on the Nickelodeon television series Sam & Cat
- Cat Valentine (Victorious), on the Nickelodeon television series Victorious
- Title character of the 1965 Western comedy film Cat Ballou, played by Jane Fonda
- Holly Golightly's cat in the film Breakfast at Tiffany's
- The blue cat character from Peg + Cat
- Cat, on the Nickelodeon series, CatDog
Places
- Çat, a town and district in Turkey
- Çat Dam, an embankment dam on the Abdülharap River, Turkey
- Cat Cays, two cays in the Bahamas
- Cat Island (disambiguation), a list of places with that name
- Kingdom of Cat, a Pictish kingdom during the Dark Ages
In science and technology
- Cat state, a special quantum state
- Catalytic converter, colloquially named cat, a component of the exhaust system of a vehicle
- Cat, the category of small categories in category theory
- cat (Unix), a standard Unix utility that concatenates and lists files
- Canon Cat, a desktop computer
- Novation CAT, a series of modems for early home computers
Other uses
- The Cat o' nine tails or similar multi-tail flogging instrument
- Cat (zodiac), a Vietnamese sign
- Cat Records, a short-lived subsidiary of Atlantic Records specializing in R&B music
- Cat Records (TK label) (1969–1980), a defunct record label unrelated to the above
- Catalan language, a European language, ISO 639 code
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- .cat, top-level domain to highlight the Catalan language and culture
- Street name for the drug methcathinone
CAT or C.A.T.
Companies and organizations
- CAT Telecom, a telecom operator in Thailand
- Cambridge Antibody Technology, a biotechnology company headquartered in Cambridge, England
- Caterpillar Inc., a manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, turbines and engines
- Centre for Alternative Technology, an eco-centre in Powys, mid-Wales, UK
Education
- Cognitive Abilities Test, a standardized test of a child's ability to learn
- Colegio Americano de Torreón, an American international school in Mexico
- Common Admission Test, an entrance exam conducted by the Indian Institutes of Management
- Computerized adaptive testing, a method for administering tests
Science, medicine and technology
- CAT (phototypesetter), Computer Assisted Typesetter, a phototypesetter developed by Graphic Systems in 1972
- CAT(k) space, a specific type of metric space in mathematics
- Catadioptric system, an optical system, informally a cat, particularly in telescopes
- Catalase, an enzyme
- Cherenkov Array at Themis, an atmospheric Cherenkov imaging telescope dedicated to gamma-ray astronomy
- Chloramphenicol acetyltransferase, an enzyme
- Cognitive analytic therapy, a psychological therapy
- Communication accommodation theory, the theory that when people interact they adjust their behaviour to accommodate to others
- Computed axial tomography or CAT scan, a medical imaging X-ray technology
- Conidial anastomosis tubes, specialised hyphae emerging from some asexual fungal spores
- Cosmic Anisotropy Telescope, an astronomical telescope
- CAT, a type of measurement category in electrical circuits
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
- Center for Appropriate Transport, an American community center for bicycles and alternative transport
- Charlottesville Area Transit, the mass transportation provider in Albemarle County, Virginia
- Chatham Area Transit, a public transit agency serving the Savannah region, Georgia, USA
- City Airport Train, a public transit agency serving between the city and the airport of Vienna, Austria
- Civil Air Transport, a Chinese airline from 1946 to 1976, in later years owned by the CIA
- 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
- Collier Area Transit public transportation system in Collier County, Florida
- Perth Central Area Transit, free public-transport buses in Perth, Australia
- A bus agency in Camarillo, California
Other
- CAT (magazine), an international civil simulation and training journal
- Canadian Army Trophy, a NATO tank gunnery competition
- 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
- Competition Appeal Tribunal, a law in the United Kingdom
- Computer-assisted translation or computer-aided translation
- Counter Assault Team, a unit within the United States Secret Service
- Committee Against Torture (disambiguation)