A cat is a domesticated mammal of the Felis catus species.
Cat or CAT may also refer to:
Animals
- Felidae (the cats or felids), a family of Carnivorans
- Pantherinae (big cats), a subfamily
- Felinae (small cats), the other subfamily
Arts and entertainment
Comic books
- Cat (comics), a list of various characters
- Confidential Assassination Troop, a manhua by Fung Chin Pang from 2003
Film and television
- the title character of Cat Ballou, a 1965 film
- Cat (Red Dwarf), a character on the sci-fi sitcom
- Cat, a character on CatDog
- Cat MacKenzie, a character on Family Affairs
- Cat Valentine (Victorious), a character in Victorious and Sam & Cat
- CAT (2022 TV series), Indian crime thriller streaming television series
Music
- Cat Records, 1954–1956, an R&B subsidiary of Atlantic Records
- Cat Records (TK label), 1969–1980
- Cat #1, a 1994 album by Peter Criss
- "Cat", by C418 from Minecraft - Volume Alpha, 2011
- "Cat", a song by Relient K from the 2016 album Air for Free
Video games
Businesses and organisations
Based in the United States
- Caterpillar Inc., a manufacturer of construction and mining equipment
- Secret Service Counter Assault Team
Based in the United Kingdom
- Cambridge Antibody Technology, a biotechnology company
- Centre for Alternative Technology, a charity and eco-centre in mid Wales
- Competition Appeal Tribunal, a public body
Other businesses and organisations
- CAT Telecom, a telecoms operator in Thailand
- Committee Against Torture, a United Nations treaty body
- Crew Against Torture (Russia), a Russian non-governmental organisation
Education
- Common Admission Test, in India
- Cognitive Abilities Test, in the United States
- Computerized adaptive testing, a method for administering tests
Elsewhere
- 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)
Science, technology and mathematics
Biology, medicine and psychology
Biochemistry
- CAT, the gene for Catalase
- Chloramphenicol acetyltransferase, an enzyme and antibiotic resistance gene
- Methcathinone or cat, a drug
- TAT, a codon for the amino acid Histidine
Psychology
Other uses in biology and medicine
- Calibrated automated thrombogram (CAT or CT), 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
Computing
- CAT #, categories of twisted pair cabling used in communication networks such as telephony and Ethernet connections
- 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
Mathematics
- Cat, the category of small categories in category theory
- CAT(k) space, a type of metric space
Other technologies
- Catadioptric system, in optics
- Catalyst, sometimes abbreviated as cat.
- Catalytic converter, an exhaust device
- Cherenkov Array at Themis, an atmospheric Cherenkov imaging telescope
- Cosmic Anisotropy Telescope
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
Turkey
Sports
- Talleres de Córdoba, also known as Club Atlético Talleres, a sport club from Córdoba, Argentina
Transportation and aviation
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
Aviation
- Civil Air Transport, a former Chinese airline, in later years owned by the CIA
- Compagnie Air Transport, a defunct airline of France
- Clear-air turbulence
- CAT (magazine), a civil airline simulation and training journal
Other uses in transport
- Caterham railway station, Surrey, England
- Center for Appropriate Transport, a community center for bicycles in Eugene, Oregon
- City Airport Train, Vienna, Austria
- (Whitby) cat, an early collier (ship) type
- Perth Central Area Transit
Other uses
- Cat (zodiac), a Vietnamese/Gurung zodiac sign
- cat, the ISO 639-2 and -3 codes for the Catalan language
- .cat, a top-level domain for Catalan language and culture
- Canadian Army Trophy, a tank gunnery competition
- Central Africa Time, a time zone
- The Central Atlas Tamazight language
- Certified Accounting Technician
- Coital alignment technique, a sexual position
- Community asset transfer - A United Kingdom legal process
- Cat o' nine tails or the cat, a flogging instrument
See also
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