Tat or TAT may refer to:

Geography

Tát Tát (german: Taath) is a town in Komárom-Esztergom County, Hungary. Twin cities * Buseck, Germany * Molln, Austria * Obid, Slovakia * Căpleni, Romania Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Cen ...

, a Hungarian village *

Tat Ali Tat Ali is a low Holocene shield volcano located in the northern part of the Afar Region of Ethiopia. This elevation is characterized as having an elongated summit depression that has produced a variety of rock types, ranging from basalts to pan ...

, an Ethiopian volcano

People

*Tat, a son and disciple of

Hermes Trismegistus Hermes Trismegistus (from grc, Wiktionary:Ἑρμῆς, Ἑρμῆς ὁ Τρισμέγιστος, "Hermes the Thrice-Greatest"; Classical Latin: la, label=none, Mercurius ter Maximus) is a legendary Hellenistic figure that originated as a Syn ...

* Tiffani Amber Thiessen, initials T.A.T. * Tat Wood, a British author

Arts, entertainment, and media

* TAT (band), a punk/rock band from London, England *''

Die Tat ''Die Tat'' (''The Deed'' or ''The Action'') was a German monthly publication of politics and culture. It was founded in April 1909 and its publisher (from 1912 on) was Eugen Diederichs from Jena. From 1939 until 1944 ''Die Tat'' was continued as ...

'', a former magazine

Aviation

*TAT, the IATA Airport code of

Poprad-Tatry Airport Poprad (; hu, Poprád; german: Deutschendorf) is a city in northern Slovakia at the foot of the High Tatra Mountains, famous for its picturesque historic centre and as a holiday resort. It is the biggest town of the Spiš region and the ten ...

TAT European Airlines Transport Aérien Transrégional was a French regional airline with its head office on the grounds of Tours Val de Loire Airport in Tours. It was formed in 1968 as Touraine Air Transport (TAT) by M. Marchais. Air France acquired a minority stak ...

, a former French regional airline *

Total air temperature In aviation, stagnation temperature is known as total air temperature and is measured by a temperature probe mounted on the surface of the aircraft. The probe is designed to bring the air to rest relative to the aircraft. As the air is brought to ...

, sometimes referred to as Stagnation Temperature *

Transcontinental Air Transport Transcontinental Air Transport (T-A-T) was an airline founded in 1928 by Clement Melville Keys that merged in 1930 with Western Air Express to form what became TWA. Keys enlisted the help of Charles Lindbergh to design a transcontinental network t ...

, a former US airline

Enterprises and organizations

* Takraw Association of Thailand (TAT), a sport governing body of

Thailand Thailand ( ), historically known as Siam () and officially the Kingdom of Thailand, is a country in Southeast Asia, located at the centre of the Indochinese Peninsula, spanning , with a population of almost 70 million. The country is bo ...

. * Tat Bank, a bank based in Tehran, Iran *The Astonishing Tribe (or TAT), the former name of the Swedish company

Research In Motion BlackBerry Limited is a Canadian software company specializing in cybersecurity. Founded in 1984, it was originally known as Research In Motion (RIM). As RIM, it developed the BlackBerry brand of interactive pagers, smartphones, and tablets ...

* Truckers Against Trafficking (or TAT), a nonprofit organization

Ethnology

Armeno-Tats Armeno-Tats ( hy, հայ-թաթեր – ''hay-tater'') are a distinct group of Christian Tat-speaking Armenians that historically populated eastern parts of the South Caucasus, in what constitutes the modern-day Republic of Azerbaijan. Most schola ...

, a subgroup of Armenians in the South Caucasus that speak the Tat language, a Southwestern Iranian language, a branch of Persian language *

Juhuri language Judeo-Tat or Juhuri (''cuhuri'', , ) is the traditional language of the Mountain Jews of the eastern Caucasus Mountains, especially Azerbaijan and Dagestan, now mainly spoken in Israel. The language is a dialect of Persian which belongs to the ...

, the Jewish Tat language *

Mountain Tats (Crimea) A mountain is an elevated portion of the Earth's crust, generally with steep sides that show significant exposed bedrock. Although definitions vary, a mountain may differ from a plateau in having a limited Summit (topography), summit area, and ...

, a mountain-dwelling subethnos of the Crimean Tatars *

Tat people (Caucasus) The Tat people (also: ''Tat'', ''Parsi'', ''Daghli'', ''Lohijon'') are an Iranian people presently living within Azerbaijan and Russia (mainly Southern Dagestan). The Tats are part of the indigenous peoples of Iranian origin in the Caucasus. Tats ...

, an Iranian people of Persian origin from the Caucasus **

Tat language (Caucasus) The Tat language, also known as Caucasian Persian, Tat/Tati Persian,Gernot Windfuhr, "Persian Grammar: history and state of its study", Walter de Gruyter, 1979. pg 4:""Tat- Persian spoken in the East Caucasus"" or Caucasian Tat, is a Southweste ...

, a Southwestern Iranian language, a branch of Persian language *

Tat people (Iran) The Tat people of Iran ( Tati: ''Irünə Tâtün'', ) are an Iranian people living in northern Iran, especially in Qazvin province. Tats of Iran use the Tati language, a group of northwestern Iranian dialects which are closely related to the ...

, an Iranian ethnic group from Iran **

Tati language (Iran) The Tati language (Tati: , ''Tâti Zobun'') is a Northwestern Iranian language which is closely related to the Talysh, Mazandarani and Gilaki languages spoken by the Tat people of Iran. It is, for the most part, mutually intelligible with Per ...

, a Northwestern Iranian language *The

Three Affiliated Tribes The Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation (MHA Nation), also known as the Three Affiliated Tribes ( Mandan: ''Miiti Naamni''; Hidatsa: ''Awadi Aguraawi''; Arikara: ''ačitaanu' táWIt''), is a Native American Nation resulting from the alliance of ...

(TAT), a Northern Plains Native American tribe also known as the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation

Science, medicine and psychology

Tat (HIV) In molecular biology, Tat is a protein that is encoded for by the ''tat'' gene in HIV-1. Tat is a regulatory protein that drastically enhances the efficiency of viral transcription. Tat stands for "Trans-Activator of Transcription". The protein c ...

, Trans-Activator of Transcription, HIV protein *

Tapas Acupressure Technique Tapas Acupressure Technique (or TAT) is an alternative medicine therapy that claims to clear negative emotions and past traumas. Though the full technique was invented in 1993 by Tapas Fleming, TAT incorporates elements of and builds on other ac ...

, an alternative medicine therapy *

Targeted alpha-particle therapy Targeted alpha-particle therapy (or TAT) is an in-development method of targeted radionuclide therapy of various cancers. It employs radioactive substances which undergo alpha decay to treat diseased tissue at close proximity. It has the potential t ...

, radiation therapy for cancer *

Thematic apperception test Thematic apperception test (TAT) is a projective psychological test developed during the 1930s by Henry A. Murray and Christiana D. Morgan at Harvard University. Proponents of the technique assert that subjects' responses, in the narratives they ...

, a projective psychological test *

Thrombin–antithrombin complex Thrombin–antithrombin complex (TAT) is a protein complex of thrombin and antithrombin. It is a marker of net activation of coagulation. Formation and elimination TAT is formed in response to the high thrombin level caused by coagulation follo ...

, a protein complex *

Tropine acyltransferase Tropine acyltransferase (, ''tropine:acyl-CoA transferase'', ''acetyl-CoA:tropan-3-ol acyltransferase'', ''tropine acetyltransferase'', ''tropine tigloyltransferase'', ''TAT'') is an enzyme with systematic name ''acyl-CoA:tropine O-acyltransferase' ...

, an enzyme *

Twin-arginine translocation pathway The twin-arginine translocation pathway (Tat pathway) is a protein export, or secretion pathway found in plants, bacteria, and archaea. In contrast to the Sec pathway which transports proteins in an unfolded manner, the Tat pathway serves to ac ...

, cellular protein export pathway *

Tyrosine aminotransferase Tyrosine aminotransferase (or tyrosine transaminase) is an enzyme present in the liver and catalyzes the conversion of tyrosine to 4-hydroxyphenylpyruvate. L-tyrosine + 2-oxoglutarate \rightleftharpoons 4-hydroxyphenylpyruvate + L-glutam ...

, an enzyme encoded by the TAT gene * TAT, a codon for the amino acid

Tyrosine -Tyrosine or tyrosine (symbol Tyr or Y) or 4-hydroxyphenylalanine is one of the 20 standard amino acids that are used by cells to synthesize proteins. It is a non-essential amino acid with a polar side group. The word "tyrosine" is from the Gr ...

Other uses

*Tat, verb for the action of making lace, see

Tatting Tatting is a technique for handcrafting a particularly durable lace from a series of knots and loops. Tatting can be used to make lace edging as well as doilies, collars, accessories such as earrings and necklaces, and other decorative pieces. ...

*Tat, short for

tattoo A tattoo is a form of body modification made by inserting tattoo ink, dyes, and/or pigments, either indelible or temporary, into the dermis layer of the skin to form a design. Tattoo artists create these designs using several Process of tatt ...

Tat Tvam Asi Tat or TAT may refer to: Geography * Tát, a Hungarian village * Tat Ali, an Ethiopian volcano People *Tat, a son and disciple of Hermes Trismegistus * Tiffani Amber Thiessen, initials T.A.T. * Tat Wood, a British author Arts, entertainment, a ...

, a Hindu philosophical concept *

Transatlantic telephone cable A transatlantic telecommunications cable is a submarine communications cable connecting one side of the Atlantic Ocean to the other. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, each cable was a single wire. After mid-century, coaxial cable came into use ...

Turnaround time Turnaround time (TAT) is the amount of time taken to complete a process or fulfill a request. The concept thus overlaps with lead time and can be contrasted with cycle time. Meaning in computing In computing, turnaround time is the total time t ...