Chat or chats may refer to:

Communication

Conversation Conversation is interactive communication between two or more people. The development of conversational skills and etiquette is an important part of socialization. The development of conversational skills in a new language is a frequent focus ...

, particularly casual *

Online chat Online chat may refer to any kind of communication over the Internet that offers a real-time text, real-time transmission of text-based, text messages from sender to receiver. Chat messages are generally short in order to enable other participa ...

, text message communication over the Internet in real-time *

Synchronous conferencing Synchronous conferencing is the formal term used in computing, in particular in computer-mediated communication, collaboration and learning, to describe technologies informally known as online chat. It is sometimes extended to include audio/vid ...

, a formal term for online chat * SMS chat, a form of

text messaging Text messaging, or texting, is the act of composing and sending electronic messages, typically consisting of alphabetic and numeric characters, between two or more users of mobile devices, desktops/laptops, or another type of compatible compute ...

* A popular term for

internet relay chat Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is a text-based chat system for instant messaging. IRC is designed for group communication in discussion forums, called ''channels'', but also allows one-on-one communication via private messages as well as chat and ...

Chat room The term chat room, or chatroom (and sometimes group chat; abbreviated as GC), is primarily used to describe any form of synchronous conferencing, occasionally even asynchronous conferencing. The term can thus mean any technology, ranging from ...

or group chat *

Video chat Videotelephony, also known as videoconferencing and video teleconferencing, is the two-way or multipoint reception and transmission of audio and video signals by people in different locations for real time communication.McGraw-Hill Concise Ency ...

Text messaging Text messaging, or texting, is the act of composing and sending electronic messages, typically consisting of alphabetic and numeric characters, between two or more users of mobile devices, desktops/laptops, or another type of compatible compute ...

, person-to-person chat, i.e. non group chat

Entertainment

* ''Chat'' (magazine), a British weekly women's magazine *

CHAT-FM CHAT-FM is a Canadian radio station that broadcasts a country format at 94.5 FM in Medicine Hat, Alberta. The station is owned by the Jim Pattison Group. History The station originally began broadcasting as an AM station on November 1, 1946 ...

, a radio station (94.5 FM) licensed to Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada *

CHAT-TV CHAT-TV ( analogue channel 6) is a television station in Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada, affiliated with Citytv. Owned by the Jim Pattison Broadcast Group, the station has studios at 10 Boundary Road SE in the nearby town of Redcliff, and its tra ...

, a television station (channel 6) licensed to Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada * ''

Le Chat ''Le Chat'' ( French for "the cat") was a Belgian daily comic strip, created by Philippe Geluck and published in the newspaper ''Le Soir'' from March 22, 1983, until March 23, 2013. During its run it quickly became one of the bestselling Franc ...

'', a Belgian comic strip *

Sophia "Chat" Sanduval Sophia "Chat" Sanduval is a fictional superhero in comic books published by Marvel Comics. She first appeared in '' Marvel Adventures Spider-Man #53'' (July 2009), a series in the Marvel Adventures imprint for young readers, taking place in a ...

, a Marvel Comics character * ''

Chat Chat ''Chat Chat'' is the debut studio album by Japanese musician Takako Minekawa, released on June 25, 1995 by Polystar. Track listing Personnel Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes. Musicians * Takako Minekawa – vocals, guitar, ...

'', a 1995 album by Takako Minekawa *

Chat show A talk show (or chat show in British English) is a television programming or radio programming genre structured around the act of spontaneous conversation.Bernard M. Timberg, Robert J. Erler'' (2010Television Talk: A History of the TV Talk 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 The Sumbar (also Sari-su, Sara-su and Ṣáríṣú) is a fast flowing river in southern Turkmenistan and northern Iran. It a tributary of the Atrek. The name Sari-su means ''yellow water'' in Turkic languages, but is applied to a number of other ...

in 1879 * Chat, California, an alternate name of Chats, USA *

CHAT (Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textile) 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 messagi ...

Science and medicine

Checklist for Autism in Toddlers The Checklist for Autism in Toddlers (CHAT) is a psychological questionnaire designed to evaluate risk for autism spectrum disorder in children ages 18–24 months. The 14-question test is filled out by the parent and a pediatrician or physician ...

, used in autism screening * Choline acetyltransferase, an enzyme that synthesises acetylcholine *

(Z)-3-hexen-1-ol acetyltransferase (Z)-3-hexen-1-ol acetyltransferase (, ''CHAT'', ''At3g03480'') is an enzyme with systematic name ''acetyl-CoA:(3Z)-hex-3-en-1-ol acetyltransferase''. This enzyme catalyses the following chemical reaction : acetyl-CoA Acetyl-CoA (acetyl coenzyme ...

, an enzyme

Birds

Chat (bird) Chats (formerly sometimes known as "chat-thrushes") are a group of small Old World insectivorous birds formerly classified as members of the thrush family (Turdidae), but following genetic DNA analysis, are now considered to belong to the Old W ...

, Old World flycatchers of subfamily Saxicolinae, which resemble small thrushes, as well as: *Australian chats, songbirds of genera ''

Ashbyia The gibberbird (''Ashbyia lovensis'') is a species of chat within the passerine birds. Taxonomy This species, also formerly known as the desert chat, is endemic to Australia and the only species within the genus ''Ashbyia''.Pizzey, Graham; Doyle ...

'' and '' Epthianura'' (family Meliphagidae) *American chats, songbirds of genus ''

Granatellus ''Granatellus'' is a genus of bird previously placed in the family Parulidae, although biochemical evidence suggests it belongs in Cardinalidae Cardinalidae (often referred to as the "cardinal-grosbeaks" or simply the "cardinals") is a fami ...

'' (family Cardinalidae) *

Yellow-breasted chat The yellow-breasted chat (''Icteria virens'') is a large songbird found in North America, and is the only member of the family Icteriidae. It was once a member of the New World warbler family, but in 2017, the American Ornithological Society move ...

(''Icteria virens''), an enigmatic North American songbird of unresolved affiliations

Other uses

Chat (mining) Chat is fragments of siliceous rock, limestone, and dolomite waste rejected in the lead-zinc milling operations that accompanied lead-zinc mining in the first half of the 20th century. Historic lead and zinc mining in the Midwestern United Stat ...

, the waste rocks produced in mining *

Chat (ppp) WvDial (pronounced 'weave-dial') is a utility that helps in making modem-based connections to the Internet that is included in some Linux distributions. WvDial is a Point-to-Point Protocol dialer: it dials a modem and starts pppd in order to conn ...

, an automated conversational script with a modem *

The Chats The Chats are an Australian punk rock band that formed in 2016 in the Sunshine Coast, Queensland. They describe their sound as "shed rock". The current band lineup is composed of guitarist Josh Hardy, drummer Matt Boggis, and bassist and vocali ...

, an Australian garage punk band *

Community Hebrew Academy of Toronto The Anne & Max Tanenbaum Community Hebrew Academy of Toronto (), also known as CHAT and TanenbaumCHAT, is a Private school, private Jewish day school, Jewish high school in Toronto, Ontario, established in 1960. As of 2012, it was the largest priv ...

, a Jewish secondary school in Toronto * Choosing Healthplans All Together, a health insurance choosing exercise *

Cultural-historical activity theory Cultural-historical activity theory (CHAT) is a theoretical framework which helps to understand and analyse the relationship between the human mind (what people think and feel) and activity (what people do). It traces its origins to the founders of ...

, in social psychology *Chāt or

Chaat Chaat, or chāt (IAST: ''cāṭ)'' () is a family of savoury snacks that originated in North India, typically served as an hors d'oeuvre or at roadside tracks from stalls or food carts across South Asia in North India, Pakistan, Nepal and ...

, Indian and Pakistani savoury snacks *Chats,

potato The potato is a starchy food, a tuber of the plant ''Solanum tuberosum'' and is a root vegetable native to the Americas. The plant is a perennial in the nightshade family Solanaceae. Wild potato species can be found from the southern Unit ...

es considered too small and/or blemished for human use but suitable for fodder use *Codes for the Human Analysis of Transcripts, a format used by the

CHILDES The Child Language Data Exchange System (CHILDES) is a corpus established in 1984 by Brian MacWhinney and Catherine Snow to serve as a central repository for data of first language acquisition. Its earliest transcripts date from the 1960s, and it ...