Pat or PAT may refer to:

Arts, entertainment and media

Fictional characters

  • Pat (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland), a gardener
  • Pat (Saturday Night Live), an androgynous character
  • Postman Pat, a British children's TV character
  • Pat, from the Czech series Pat & Mat
  • Pat the Dog, a character from the TV show of the same name
  • Pat, or Lucky's Dad, a Bluey character
  • Pat, daughter-in-law of Jake the Dog in Adventure Time

Other arts, entertainment and media

  • "Pat" (album), by Pat Boone, 1957
  • Red PAT, a Bolivian television channel

Businesses and organisations

  • Pakistan Awami Tehreek, a political party
  • Pickleball Association Tasmania
  • Polish Telegraphic Agency, the official news agency of Poland 1918–1991
  • Port Authority of Thailand
  • Professional Association of Teachers, later Voice, a former British trade union
  • PAT (), a type of Ukrainian legal entity, equivalent to plc

People

  • Patrick (given name), including a list of people with the name, sometimes known as Pat
  • Patricia, a feminine given name, including a list of people with the name, sometimes known as Pat
  • Narcisse Théophile Patouillard (1854–1926, standard botanical abbreviation: Pat.), French pharmacist and mycologist
  • Jenny Pat (1981–2014), Hong Kong-born, Chinese-Canadian international art dealer, visual artist, and television personality
  • Naum Pat (), Maya batab or mayor

Places

  • Pat, Hungary
  • Pat, Iran
  • Pat, Jerusalem
  • Pat River, Quebec, Canada
  • Port Arthur, Texas, U.S., nickname PAT
  • Patince (Hungarian: ), a village in Slovakia

Science and technology

Computing

  • PAT (model checker), the Process Analysis Toolkit
  • Page attribute table, in x86 and x86-64 memory caching
  • Performance acceleration technology, an Intel memory performance technology
  • Port address translation, a type of network address translation
  • Program Association Table, in an MPEG transport stream
  • Personal access token, a password alternative

Medicine and biology

  • Paddington alcohol test, for alcohol-related problems
  • Paroxysmal atrial tachycardia, an episode of arrhythmia that begins and ends abruptly
  • Peripheral Arterial Tone, a noninvasive measure

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  • Phosphinothricin acetyltransferase, an enzyme
  • Photoacoustic tomography, by an ultrasound scan
  • Picture arrangement test, in psychological testing
  • Process analytical technology, in pharmaceutical manufacturing
  • Pseudotropine acyltransferase, an enzyme
  • Putrescine aminotransferase, an enzyme

Other science and technology

  • Photographic Activity Test, an ISO standard test
  • Portable appliance testing, an electrical safety test
  • Powder-actuated tool, a type of nail gun

Transportation

  • Patricroft railway station (station code: PAT), Manchester, England
  • Patterson railway station (station code: PAT), Melbourne, Australia
  • Port Authority Transit, later Pittsburgh Regional Transit, Pennsylvania, US
  • Jay Prakash Narayan Airport (IATA airport code: PAT), Patna, India

Other uses

  • Point after touchdown, in American football
  • Pat silk, a variety of silk
  • , an official approval for traditional Italian regional food products
  • Pat hand, in the card game of poker

See also

  • Patricia (disambiguation)
  • Patrick (disambiguation)
  • PATS (disambiguation)
  • Patt (disambiguation)
  • Expatriate, or ex-pat, a person residing in a country other than their native country
  • I = PAT, the impact of human activity on the environment