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

Cat or CAT may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

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
  • Cat, from Peg + Cat

Literature

  • The Fox and the Cat, a pair of fictional characters from the Italian novel The Adventures of Pinocchio (1881–1883) by Carlo Collodi and several adaptations of the story in other media

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

Businesses and organisations

United States

  • Caterpillar Inc. (simply known as CAT), 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<!--fails WP:DABACRO-->
  • 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<!--fails WP:DABACRO-->
  • Communication accommodation theory, in sociolinguistics

Science and technology

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)

Transportation

American bus transit systems

  • Camarillo Area Transit, Camarillo, California
  • Canby Area Transit, Oregon
  • Capital Area Transit (Harrisburg), Pennsylvania
  • Capital Area Transit (Raleigh), North Carolina
  • Charlottesville Area Transit, Virginia
  • Chatham Area Transit, Georgia
  • 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
  • Catamaran, a boat with two hulls

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
  • A draw, in a game of tic-tac-toe

See also

  • List of individual cats
  • The Cat (disambiguation)
  • Cats (disambiguation)
  • Catt (disambiguation)
  • Kat (disambiguation)
  • Qat (disambiguation)