Pat

Pat or PAT may refer to:

Science and technology

 * Photographic Activity Test, an ISO standard test
 * Portable appliance testing, an electrical safety test
 * Powder-actuated tool, a type of nail gun

Computing

 * PAT (model checker) (Process Analysis Toolkit)
 * Page attribute table, in x86 and x86-64 memory caching
 * Performance acceleration technology, an Intel memory performance technology
 * Port address translation, a type of network address translation
 * Program Association Table, in an MPEG transport stream
 * Personal access token, a password alternative

Medicine and biology

 * Paddington alcohol test, for alcohol-related problems
 * Paroxysmal atrial tachycardia, an episode of arrhythmia that begins and ends abruptly
 * Peripheral Arterial Tone, a noninvasive measure


 * Phosphinothricin acetyltransferase, an enzyme
 * Photoacoustic tomography, by an ultrasound scan
 * Picture arrangement test
 * Process analytical technology, in pharmaceutical manufacturing
 * Pseudotropine acyltransferase, an enzyme
 * Putrescine aminotransferase, an enzyme

Places

 * Pat, Hungary, a village
 * Patince (Hungarian: Pat), a village in Slovakia
 * Pat, Iran, a village in Iran
 * Pat, Jerusalem, a neighborhood in Israel
 * Pat River, Thailand
 * Port Arthur, Texas, US

People

 * Patricia, a female given name
 * Patrick (given name), a male given name
 * Narcisse Théophile Patouillard (1854–1926) (standard botanical abbreviation "Pat."), French pharmacist and mycologist
 * Jenny Pat (1981–2014), Hong Kong-born, Chinese-Canadian international art dealer, visual artist, and television personality

Arts, entertainment and media

 * P.A.T. Network, a Bolivian TV channel operated by the company Periodistas Asociados de Televisión; See Justa Canaviri
 * "Pat" (album), 1957 studio album by Pat Boone

Fictional characters

 * Pat (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland), a gardener
 * Pat (Saturday Night Live), an androgynous character
 * Postman Pat, a British children's TV character
 * Pat, from the Czech series Pat & Mat
 * Pat the Dog, a character from the TV show of the same name
 * Pat, AKA Lucky's Dad, a character from the Australian cartoon Bluey
 * Pat, a character who is Jake the Dog’s daughter-in-law and Kim Kil Whan‘s wife in the animated series Adventure Time

Organisations

 * Pakistan Awami Tehrik, a political party
 * Polish Telegraphic Agency, the official news agency of Poland between 1918 and 1991
 * Port Authority of Thailand
 * Professional Association of Teachers, the former name of the UK trade union Voice

Transportation

 * Patricroft railway station (National Rail station code), England
 * Patterson railway station, Melbourne
 * Port Authority Transit, former name of the Port Authority of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, US
 * Jay Prakash Narayan Airport (IATA airport code), Patna, India

Other uses

 * Pat, a form of physical intimacy
 * Pat silk, a type of silk
 * Point after touchdown, in American football
 * Prodotto agroalimentare tradizionale, an Italian grade of Protected Geographical Status
 * Profit After Tax
 * Pat hand, in the card game of poker