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
 * A popular term for internet relay chat
 * Chat room or group chat
 * Video chat
 * Text messaging, person-to-person chat, i.e. non group chat
 * Instant messaging

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 Chat, a 1995 album by Takako Minekawa
 * Chat show, a radio and television format

Places

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

Science and medicine

 * Checklist for Autism in Toddlers, used in autism screening
 * Choline acetyltransferase, an enzyme that synthesises acetylcholine
 * (Z)-3-hexen-1-ol acetyltransferase, an enzyme

Birds

 * Chat (bird), Old World flycatchers of subfamily Saxicolinae, which resemble small thrushes, as well as:
 * Australian chats, songbirds of genera Ashbyia and Epthianura (family Meliphagidae)
 * American chats, songbirds of genus Granatellus (family Cardinalidae)
 * Yellow-breasted chat (Icteria virens), an enigmatic North American songbird of unresolved affiliations

Other uses

 * Chat (mining), the waste rocks produced in mining
 * Chat (ppp), an automated conversational script with a modem
 * The Chats, an Australian garage punk band
 * Community Hebrew Academy of Toronto, a Jewish secondary school in Toronto
 * Choosing Healthplans All Together, a health insurance choosing exercise
 * Cultural-historical activity theory, in social psychology
 * Chāt or Chaat, Indian and Pakistani savoury snacks
 * Chats, potatoes considered too small and/or blemished for human use but suitable for fodder use
 * Codes for the Human Analysis of Transcripts, a format used by the CHILDES project
 * What a cat is named in French