Cat (disambiguation)

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Cat or CAT may have several different meanings:

Animals
- Cat, the common name for the domestic cat (Felis silvestris catus).
- Big cat, wild animals related to the domestic cat, such as lions, tigers, cheetahs, panthers, and jaguars.
- A generic term for any animal classified in the cat family Felidae.

Jargon
- Nautical
  - A term for boats such as catamaran or a catboat
  - A cathead, or a device for raising an anchor to the cathead
  - The cat o' nine tails, a multi-tailed whip used for corporal punishment in the British navy
- cat, the concatenate program in the Unix operating system
- .cat is a top-level domain

Names
- Caterpillar, the main trademark of Caterpillar Inc.
- Cath, Catherine, Cathryn, and Cathy, female names.
- The Cat a character in the TV show Red Dwarf.

Slang
- A woman who is regarded as spiteful.
- A person, especially a man.
- A player or devotee of jazz music.

An acronym for:
- Cambridge Antibody Technology, the UK biotechnology company
- Calendar for TV (http://www.pogdesign.co.uk/cat/) Calendar of TV episodes
- Cosmic Anisotropy Telescope, the first telescope to measure fine details in the fireball from the Big Bang
- Citizens Area Transit, public transportation by bus in Clark County, Nevada (Las Vegas)
- Civil Air Transport, the airline forerunner of Air America that was formed after World War II by General Claire Lee Chennault of the Flying Tigers
- In aviation, clear air turbulence
- Computed axial tomography, a tomographical X-ray technique.
- Common Admission Test, a graduate test in India, conducted by the Indian Institutes of Management. The entrance test conducted by Cochin University of Science and Technology is also known as the Common Admission Test.
- Computer-assisted translation, a form of computer software used to help human translators
- Computer-adaptive test, a type of test that dynamically adapts to the testee's ability level.

Pop culture
- Felis sapiens, a sentient fictional species from the Red Dwarf television series.
- Cats, a musical.
- Cat Glover, dancer and singer, Prince Protege
- Cats is the name of the main antagonist in the computer game Zero Wing who utters the immortal phrase "All your base are belong to us".
Abbreviations
- The stock symbol for Caterpillar Inc. and a short trademark name for the company's products.
- An abbreviation for category, for example Cat 5 cable.
- Shorthand for the catalytic converter used in automobiles.

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