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

  • ChatGPT, a chatbot developed by OpenAI
  • Chat (mining), the waste rocks produced in mining
  • Chat (ppp), an automated conversational script with a modem
  • ChatBot, an AI customer service platform developed by Text
  • 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
  • Codes for the Human Analysis of Transcripts, a format used by the CHILDES project

Chats

  • Chats or Chat Tatars, ethnic group in Siberia
  • The Chats, Australian garage punk band

See also

  • Chat room (disambiguation)
  • Le Chat (disambiguation)
  • Khat, a plant with stimulant properties in humans
  • Chatroulette, service for random chat all around the world