DAT or Dat may refer to:

Science

  • Diamyltryptamine, a tryptamine derivative
  • Direct agglutination test, any test that uses whole organisms as a means of looking for serum antibody
  • Direct antiglobulin test, one of two Coombs tests
  • Dopamine transporter or dopamine active transporter, a membrane-spanning protein

Education

  • Dental Admission Test, taken by dental school candidates the US and Canada
  • Design and Technology, school subject in primary and secondary school

Technology

  • .dat, computer filename extension, typically for a file considered to contain data
  • dat (software), a decentralized data tool for distributing data small and large.
  • DAT Solutions, or Dial-A-Truck, provider of electronic transportation information
  • Digital Audio Tape, an audio recording and playback medium
  • Double acting tanker, a type of icebreaking tanker ship
  • Dynamic Acceleration Technology, increases single-threaded performance on multi-core processors
  • Dynamic Address Translation, IBM's term for virtual memory mapping: Virtual memory#History

Transport

  • DAT (airline), an airline based in Vamdrup, Denmark
  • Datong Yungang International Airport, an airport with the IATA code of DAT in Shanxi Province, China
  • DAT, the ICAO code for Canadian airline Lynx Air
  • DAT, the National Rail code for Datchet railway station in the county of Berkshire, UK
  • Delta Air Transport, former Belgian airline
  • Delivered at Terminal, a former Incoterms term whereby the seller pays all transport costs

Media and entertainment

  • Day After Tomorrow (band), a 3-member J-pop band under the Avex label
  • Dat (song), a song written and recorded by Pluto Shervington
  • DAT (newspaper), a Kazakh news source

Other

  • Abbreviation for grammatical dative case
  • Desk appearance ticket, a New York order to appear in criminal court
  • Disaster Action Team, the local disaster response unit of the American Red Cross
  • Drug action teams, involved in applying UK drugs policy
  • Dolphin-assisted therapy, swimming with dolphins as a therapy
  • DAT (chemotherapy) is a regimen that consists of Daunorubicin, Ara-C (cytarabine) and Thioguanine
  • Divergent Association Test (DAT) is a psychological creativity test
  • DAT (), a type of Ukrainian legal entity

See also

  • Dietmar Dath (born 1970), German author, journalist and translator