Cat (disambiguation)

The cat (Felis catus) is a domesticated feline species.

Cat or CAT may also refer to:

Comics

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

Film and television

 * Cat, the title character of the 1965 film Cat Ballou
 * Cat (Red Dwarf), a character in the sci-fi sitcom
 * Cat, a character in the animated television series CatDog
 * Cat MacKenzie, a character in Family Affairs
 * Cat Valentine (Victorious), a character in Victorious and Sam & Cat
 * Cat (TV series), Indian crime thriller streaming television series

Music

 * Cat #1 (album), a 1994 album by Peter Criss
 * "Cat", a track on the 2011 album Minecraft – Volume Alpha by C418
 * "Cat", a song on the 2016 album Air for Free by Relient K

Video games

 * C.A.T.: Cyber Attack Team, 2003

United States

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

United Kingdom

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

Other businesses and organisations

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

Education

 * Common Admission Test, in India
 * Cognitive Abilities Test (CogAT), in the US
 * Computerized adaptive testing, a method for administering tests

Linguistics

 * Catalan language (ISO 639-2 and -3 code: cat)
 * Central Atlas Tamazight, a language in North Africa
 * Communication accommodation theory, in sociolinguistics

Biology and medicine

 * Calibrated automated thrombogram, 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
 * Cognitive analytic therapy, a psychological therapy

Animals

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

Biochemistry

 * CAT, the gene for Catalase
 * Chloramphenicol acetyltransferase, an enzyme and antibiotic resistance gene
 * Methcathinone or cat, a drug

Computing

 * Cat, categories of twisted pair network cabling
 * 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
 * .cat, a top-level domain for Catalan language and culture

Mathematics

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

Physics

 * Catadioptric system, in optics
 * Cherenkov Array at Themis, an atmospheric Cherenkov imaging telescope
 * Cosmic Anisotropy Telescope, a former telescope near Cambridge, UK

Other technology

 * Catalyst (cat.), in chemistry
 * Catalytic converter, an exhaust device

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

 * Çat, a town and district in Erzurum Province, Turkey
 * Çat Dam, on the Abdülharap River in Adıyaman Province, Turkey
 * 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)

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
 * Cities Area Transit, North Dakota

Aviation

 * Civil Air Transport (CAT, former ICAO code: CAT), a former Chinese airline, in later years owned by the CIA
 * , a defunct airline of France
 * Clear-air turbulence

Other transportation

 * Caterham railway station (station code: CAT), Surrey, England
 * Center for Appropriate Transport, a community center for bicycles in Eugene, Oregon, US
 * City Airport Train, Vienna, Austria
 * Cat, an early collier ship type
 * Perth Central Area Transit

Other uses

 * Talleres de Córdoba or Club Atlético Talleres, a sport club from Córdoba, Argentina
 * Cat (zodiac), a Vietnamese/Gurung zodiac sign
 * Canadian Army Trophy, a tank gunnery competition
 * Central Africa Time, a time zone
 * Certified Accounting Technician
 * Coital alignment technique, a sexual position
 * Community asset transfer, a UK legal process
 * Cat o' nine tails or cat, a flogging instrument