Cat (disambiguation)

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

Cat may also refer to:

Animals

• Big cats, including pantherines like jaguars, leopards, lions, and tigers
• Any member of Felidae, the biological family of the cats, such as felines like caracal, cheetah, lynx, pumas, and wildcats
• Viverridae, a family including genet cats and civet cats

Places

• Çat, a town and district in Turkey
• Cat Cays, two cays in the Bahamas
• Çat Dam, an embankment dam on the Abdülharap River, Turkey
• Cat Island (disambiguation), various places with that name
• Cattown, New York, a hamlet in New York
• Kingdom of Cat, a Pictish kingdom during the Dark Ages

People

• Cat (nickname), a list of people
• Cat Glover, (born Catherine Vernice Glover; 1968) American choreographer, dancer and singer
• 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

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional entities

• Cat (comics), a list of various characters
• Cat (Red Dwarf), in UK SF sitcom Red Dwarf
• Cat, on the Nickelodeon series CatDog
• Blue cat, a character from Peg + Cat
• Cat Ballou, 1965 film and character
• Cat MacKenzie, on the UK soap opera Family Affairs
• Cat Valentine, on the Nickelodeon television series Sam & Cat
• Cat Valentine, on the Nickelodeon television series Victorious

Music

Labels

• Cat Records (TK label) (1969–1980), a defunct record label unrelated to the above
• Cat Records, a short-lived subsidiary of Atlantic Records specializing in R&B music

Songs

• "Cat", a song by C418 from the Minecraft soundtrack
• "Cat", a song by Needtobreathe from album Air for Free

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

• CAT (magazine), an international civil simulation and training journal

Brands and enterprises

• Cambridge Antibody Technology, a biotechnology company headquartered in Cambridge, England
• CAT Telecom, a telecom operator in Thailand
• 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
• Continuous assessment test, a form of educational examination that evaluates a student's progress throughout a prescribed course

Law enforcement

• Counter Assault Team, a unit within the United States Secret Service

Military

• Canadian Army Trophy, a NATO tank gunnery competition

Science, healthcare, and technology

• CAT (phototypesetter), Computer Assisted Typesetter, a phototypesetter developed by Graphic Systems in 1972
• cat (Unix), a standard Unix utility that concatenates and lists files
• .cat, top-level domain to highlight the Catalan language and culture
• CAT, a type of measurement category in electrical circuits
• Cat, the category of small categories in category theory
• Cat, a clone of the Apple II home computer
• Canon Cat, a desktop computer
• 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
• Catalytic converter, colloquially named cat, a component of the exhaust system of a vehicle
• Cherenkov Array at Themis, an atmospheric Cherenkov imaging telescope dedicated to gamma-ray astronomy
• Chloramphenicol acetyltransferase, an enzyme and antibiotic resistance gene
• Cognitive analytic therapy, a psychological therapy
• Combat application tourniquet, a tourniquet developed for use in field combat situations
• Communication accommodation theory, the theory that when people interact they adjust their behaviour to accommodate to others
• Computer-assisted translation, or computer-aided translation
• Conidial anastomosis tubes, specialised hyphae emerging from some asexual fungal spores
• Cosmic Anisotropy Telescope, an astronomical telescope
• CT scan (Computed axial tomography) or CAT scan, now CT scan, a medical imaging X-ray technology
• Novation CAT, a series of modems for early home computers

Sports

• Club Atlético Talleres, a sports club in Córdoba, Argentina
• Club Atlético Tucumán, a football club in Tucumán, Argentina

Transportation

• Cat, a bus agency in Camarillo, California
• 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
• Compagnie Air Transport, a French airline from 1946 to 1970
• Perth Central Area Transit, free public-transport buses in Perth, Australia

Other uses

• Cat (zodiac), a Vietnamese sign
• Cat, slang for human male, as in "dude" or "guy"
• Cat, street name for the drug methcathinone
• Cat o' nine tails or similar multi-tail flogging instrument
• Catalan language, a European language, ISO 639 code cat
• 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, UK

See also

• Category (disambiguation)
• Cats (disambiguation)
• Committee Against Torture (disambiguation)
• Kat (disambiguation)
• Pussycat (disambiguation)
• Qat (disambiguation)
• The Cat (disambiguation)