The

cat The cat (''Felis catus''), also referred to as the domestic cat or house cat, is a small domesticated carnivorous mammal. It is the only domesticated species of the family Felidae. Advances in archaeology and genetics have shown that the ...

(''Felis catus'') is a domesticated feline species. Cat or CAT may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Comics

Cat (comics) Cat, in comics, may refer to: * Tigra (a.k.a. Greer Grant Nelson), a Marvel Comics character whose original superhero identity was the Cat * Patsy Walker, a Marvel Comics character who inherited the Cat costume and took the name the Hellcat * Shen ...

, 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 Ballou'' is a 1965 American western comedy film starring Jane Fonda and Lee Marvin, who won an Academy Award for his dual role. The story involves a woman who hires a notorious gunman to protect her father's ranch, and later to avenge his ...

'' * Cat (''Red Dwarf''), a character in the sci-fi sitcom * Cat, a character in the animated television series ''

CatDog ''CatDog'' is an American animated television series created by Peter Hannan for Nickelodeon. The series follows the zany hijinks of orange-furred conjoined brothers of different species, with one half of the resultant animal being a cat and t ...

'' * 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 PEG or peg may refer to: Devices * Clothes peg, a fastener used to hang up clothes for drying * Tent peg, a spike driven into the ground for holding a tent to the ground * Tuning peg, used to hold a string in the pegbox of a stringed instrumen ...

Literature

The Fox and the Cat The Fox and the Cat () are a pair of fictional characters and antagonists of Italian writer Carlo Collodi's 1883 book ''Le avventure di Pinocchio'' (''The Adventures of Pinocchio''). They are depicted as poor con artists who hoodwink Pinocchio a ...

, 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 ''Minecraft – Volume Alpha'' is the first soundtrack album by the German electronic musician Daniel "C418" Rosenfeld. Created for the 2011 video game ''Minecraft'', it is the first of two albums by Rosenfeld to come from the game's soundtrac ...

'' by C418 * "Cat", a song on the 2016 album ''

Air for Free ''Air for Free'' is the eighth studio album by Relient K, released on July 22, 2016, through Mono vs Stereo. The album's lead single, "Bummin", was released on April 13, 2016. It is the first album since '' Five Score and Seven Years Ago'' (2007 ...

'' by Relient K

Sports

CAT The cat (''Felis catus''), also referred to as the domestic cat or house cat, is a small domesticated carnivorous mammal. It is the only domesticated species of the family Felidae. Advances in archaeology and genetics have shown that the ...

, the mascot of

FC Barcelona Futbol Club Barcelona (), commonly known as FC Barcelona and colloquially as Barça (), is a professional Football club (association football), football club based in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, that competes in La Liga, the top flight of ...

Video games

* '' C.A.T.: Cyber Attack Team'', 2003

Businesses and organisations

United States

Caterpillar Inc. Caterpillar Inc., also known as Cat, is an American construction, mining and other engineering equipment manufacturer. The company is the world's largest manufacturer of construction equipment. In 2018, Caterpillar was ranked number 73 on the ' ...

(simply known as CAT), a manufacturer of construction and mining equipment *

Secret Service Counter Assault Team The Counter Assault Team (CAT) is a specialized tactical unit of the U.S. Secret Service that provides tactical support to the Presidential Protective Division to protect the president of the United States. This is in contrast to the President ...

United Kingdom

Cambridge Antibody Technology Cambridge Antibody Technology Group Plc, (commonly referred to as CAT) was a biotechnology company headquartered in Cambridge, England. Its core focus was on antibody therapeutics, primarily using phage display, Phage Display and ribosome displ ...

, a biotechnology company *

Centre for Alternative Technology The Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT) () is an ecology, eco-centre in Montgomeryshire, Powys, Wales dedicated to demonstrating and teaching sustainable development. CAT, despite its name, no longer concentrates its efforts exclusively on al ...

, a charity and eco-centre in Wales *

Competition Appeal Tribunal The Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) of the United Kingdom was created by Section 12 and Schedule 2 to the Enterprise Act 2002, Enterprise Act 2002 which came into force on 1 April 2003. The Competition Service is an executive non-department ...

, a public body

Other businesses and organisations

CAT Telecom CAT Telecom Public Company Limited (Communication Authority of Thailand : การสื่อสารแห่งประเทศไทย) So, then as known as CAT Telecom Plc. () is the state-owned company that runs Thailand’s interna ...

, 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 The Common Admission Test (CAT) is a computer based test for admission in graduate management programs. The test consists of three sections: Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension, Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning, and Quantitative ...

, in India *

Cognitive Abilities Test Cognitive Abilities Test can refer to two different educational assessment tests. CogAT The Cognitive Abilities Test (CogAT) is a group-administered K–12 assessment published by Riverside Insights and intended to estimate students' learned ...

(CogAT), in the US *

Computerized adaptive testing Computerized adaptive testing (CAT) is a form of Computer-based assessment, computer-based test that adapts to the examinee's ability level. For this reason, it has also been called tailored testing. In other words, it is a form of computer-adminis ...

, a method for administering tests

Linguistics

Catalan language Catalan () is a Western Romance languages, Western Romance language and is the official language of Andorra, and the official language of three autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous communities in eastern Spain: Catalonia, the Balearic I ...

(ISO 639-2 and -3 code: cat) *

Central Atlas Tamazight Central Atlas Tamazight or Atlasic (native name: ''Tamazight'' ; ) is a Berber languageCentral Atlas Tamazight may be referred to as either a Berber language or a Berber dialect. As Berber languages have some degree of mutual intelligibility, ...

, a language in North Africa * Communication accommodation theory, in sociolinguistics

Science and technology

Biology and medicine

Calibrated automated thrombogram The calibrated automated thrombogram (CAT or CT) is a thrombin generation assay (TGA) and global coagulation assay (GCA) which can be used as a coagulation test to assess thrombotic risk. It is the most widely used TGA. The CAT is a semi-automa ...

, a coagulation test *

CAT scan A computed tomography scan (CT scan), formerly called computed axial tomography scan (CAT scan), is a medical imaging technique used to obtain detailed internal images of the body. The personnel that perform CT scans are called radiographers ...

or CT scan, a medical imaging X-ray technology * Combat application tourniquet, a tourniquet developed for use in field combat situations *

Conidial anastomosis tubes Conidial anastomosis tubes (CATs) are cells formed from the conidia (a type of fungal asexual spores) of many filamentous fungi. These cells have a tubular shape and form an anastomosis (bridge) that allows fusion between conidia. CATs and germ t ...

, a specialised hyphae emerging from some asexual fungal spores *

Cognitive analytic therapy Cognitive analytic therapy (CAT) is a form of psychological therapy initially developed in the United Kingdom by Anthony Ryle. This time-limited therapy was developed in the context of the UK's National Health Service with the aim of providing ef ...

, a psychological therapy

Animals

Felidae Felidae ( ) is the Family (biology), family of mammals in the Order (biology), order Carnivora colloquially referred to as cats. A member of this family is also called a felid ( ). The 41 extant taxon, extant Felidae species exhibit the gre ...

(the cats or felids), a family of Carnivorans **

Pantherinae The Pantherinae is a subfamily of the Felidae; it was named and first described by Reginald Innes Pocock in 1917 as only including the ''Panthera'' species, but later also came to include the clouded leopards (genus ''Neofelis''). The Pantherin ...

(big cats), a subfamily **

Felinae The small cats or Felinae are a subfamily of Felidae distinguished by their bony hyoids, which let them purr but not roar. Other authors have proposed an alternative definition for this subfamily, as comprising only the living conical-toothed cat ...

(small cats), the other subfamily

Biochemistry

* CAT, the gene for

Catalase Catalase is a common enzyme found in nearly all living organisms exposed to oxygen (such as bacteria, plants, and animals) which catalyzes the decomposition of hydrogen peroxide to water and oxygen. It is a very important enzyme in protecting ...

* Chloramphenicol acetyltransferase, an enzyme and antibiotic resistance gene * Methcathinone or cat, a drug

Computing

* Cat, categories of

twisted pair Twisted pair cabling is a type of communications cable in which two conductors of a single circuit are twisted together for the purposes of improving electromagnetic compatibility. Compared to a single conductor or an untwisted balanced ...

network cabling * CAT (phototypesetter) (Computer Assisted Typesetter), a 1972 phototypesetter *

cat (Unix) cat is a shell command for writing the content of a file or input stream to standard output. The name is an abbreviation of ''concatenate'' which is from the Latin ''catenare'' meaning "to chain" Originally developed for Unix, it is available o ...

, a Unix utility that concatenates and lists files * Cat, a clone of the Apple II home computer *

Canon Cat The Canon Cat is a task-dedicated microcomputer released by Canon Inc. in 1987 for . Its appearance resembles dedicated word processors of the late 1970s to early 1980s, but it is far more powerful, and has many unique ideas for data manipulatio ...

, a desktop computer *

Computer-assisted translation Computer-aided translation (CAT), also referred to as computer-assisted translation or computer-aided human translation (CAHT), is the use of software, also known as a translator, to assist a human translator in the translation process. The tr ...

or computer-aided translation * Computer aided transceiver *

Novation CAT Novation, Inc., is an early modem manufacturer whose CAT series were popular in the early home computer market in the late 1970s and early 1980s, notably on the Apple II. The Hayes Microcomputer Products, Hayes Smartmodem 300, introduced in 1981, ...

, a modem series * .cat, a top-level domain for Catalan language and culture

Mathematics

* Cat, the

category of small categories In mathematics, specifically in category theory, the category of small categories, denoted by Cat, is the category whose objects are all small categories and whose morphisms are functors between categories. Cat may actually be regarded as a 2-c ...

in category theory *

CAT(k) space In mathematics, a \mathbf(k) space, where k is a real number, is a specific type of metric space. Intuitively, triangles in a \operatorname(k) space (with k0. Let (X,d) be a geodesic metric space, i.e. a metric space for which every two points x, ...

, a type of metric space

Physics

Catadioptric system A catadioptric optical system is one where refraction and Reflection (physics), reflection are combined in an optical system, usually via lens (optics), lenses (dioptrics) and curved mirrors (catoptrics). Catadioptric combinations are used in foc ...

, in optics * Cherenkov Array at Themis, an atmospheric Cherenkov imaging telescope * Cosmic Anisotropy Telescope, a former telescope near Cambridge, UK

Other technology

Catalyst Catalysis () is the increase in rate of a chemical reaction due to an added substance known as a catalyst (). Catalysts are not consumed by the reaction and remain unchanged after it. If the reaction is rapid and the catalyst recycles quick ...

(cat.), in chemistry **

Catalytic converter A catalytic converter part is an vehicle emissions control, exhaust emission control device which converts toxic gases and pollutants in exhaust gas from an internal combustion engine into less-toxic pollutants by catalysis, catalyzing a redox ...

, an exhaust device

People

* Cat (nickname), a list of people with the nickname * Cat Glover (born 1968), American choreographer, dancer and singer *

Cat Power Charlyn Marie "Chan" Marshall ( ; born January 21, 1972), better known by her stage name Cat Power, is an American singer-songwriter. Cat Power was originally the name of her first band, but has become her stage name as a solo artist. Born in ...

(born 1972), American singer-songwriter (real name: Charlyn Marshall) * Cat Rambo (born 1963), American writer and editor *

Cat Stevens Yusuf Islam (born Steven Demetre Georgiou; ), commonly known by his stage names Cat Stevens, Yusuf, and Yusuf / Cat Stevens, is a British singer-songwriter and musician. He has sold more than 100 million records and has more than two billion st ...

(born 1948), British singer-songwriter (real name: Yusuf Islam)

Places

Çat Çat () is a municipality and district of Erzurum Province, Turkey. Its area is 1,448 km2, and its population is 15,556 (2022). The mayor is Arif Hikmet Kiliç ( CHP). Composition There are 45 neighbourhoods in Çat District:

, 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 Many transit agencies serve Southern California. They range from large organizations serving thousands of people to one-route services provided by local cities. The majority of these agencies mainly serve localized areas of Los Angeles County. In ...

, Camarillo, California * Canby Area Transit, Oregon *

Capital Area Transit (Harrisburg) rabbittransit Capital Region, formerly known as Capital Area Transit (CAT), is a public transportation agency that operates bus and paratransit service in the Harrisburg–Carlisle metropolitan statistical area and the York metropolitan statisti ...

, Pennsylvania *

Capital Area Transit (Raleigh) GoRaleigh is the transit system responsible for operating most of the public transportation services in Raleigh, North Carolina. The system operates 38 fixed routes throughout the city's municipal area and operates several regional/express route ...

, North Carolina * Clemson Area Transit, South Carolina * Collier Area Transit, Florida * Cities Area Transit, North Dakota

Aviation

Civil Air Transport Civil Air Transport (CAT) was a Nationalist Chinese airline, later owned by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), that supported the United States' covert operations throughout East and Southeast Asia. During the Cold War, missions consi ...

(CAT, former ICAO code: CAT), a former Chinese airline, in later years owned by the CIA * , a defunct airline of France *

Clear-air turbulence In meteorology, clear-air turbulence (CAT) is the turbulence, turbulent movement of air masses in the absence of any visual clues such as clouds, and is caused when bodies of air moving at widely different speeds meet. The atmospheric region mos ...

Other transportation

Caterham railway station Caterham railway station serves the town of Caterham in the Tandridge district of Surrey. Caterham train drivers depot was opened on Sunday 17 June 1928 as a motorman's depot (the "motor" term being used for electric trains) after electrific ...

(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 catamaran () (informally, a "cat") is a watercraft with two parallel hull (watercraft), hulls of equal size. The wide distance between a catamaran's hulls imparts stability through resistance to rolling and overturning; no ballast is requi ...

, a boat with two hulls

Other uses

Talleres de Córdoba Club Atlético Talleres (; ), mostly known simply as Talleres ( in Rioplatense Spanish, Rioplatense accent and or in Cordobés Spanish, Cordobés accent; ), is an Football in Argentina, Argentine professional sports club based in the city of C ...

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 Central Africa Time or CAT, is a time zone used in north central, east central and southern Africa. Central Africa Time is two hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC+02:00), which is the same as the adjacent South Africa Standard Time, ...

, a time zone *

Certified Accounting Technician The Certified Accounting Technician (CAT) qualification is offered in the United Kingdom by the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA). Upon completion of the exams and required practical work experience, the CAT graduate will be ...

Coital alignment technique The coital alignment technique List of sex positions, sex position is used primarily as a variant of the missionary position and is designed to maximize clitoral stimulation during sexual intercourse. This is achieved by combining the "Missionary ...

, a sexual position * Community asset transfer, a UK legal process *

Cat o' nine tails The cat o' nine tails, commonly shortened to the cat, is a type of multi-tailed whip or flail. It originated as an implement for physical punishment, particularly in the Royal Navy and British Army, and as a judicial punishment in Britain and ...

or cat, a flogging instrument * A draw, in a game of

tic-tac-toe Tic-tac-toe (American English), noughts and crosses (English in the Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth English), or Xs and Os (Canadian English, Canadian or Hiberno-English, Irish English) is a paper-and-pencil game for two players who ta ...