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The cat (Felis catus) is a domesticated feline species.

Cat or CAT may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Comics

• Cat (comics), 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 (Red Dwarf), a character in the sci-fi sitcom
• Cat, a character in the animated television series CatDog
• 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

Music

• Cat #1 (album), a 1994 album by Peter Criss
• "Cat", a track on the 2011 album Minecraft – Volume Alpha by C418
• "Cat", a song on the 2016 album Air for Free by Relient K

Video games

• C.A.T.: Cyber Attack Team, 2003

Businesses and organisations

United States

• Caterpillar Inc., a manufacturer of construction and mining equipment
• Secret Service Counter Assault Team

United Kingdom

• Cambridge Antibody Technology, a biotechnology company
• Centre for Alternative Technology, a charity and eco-centre in Wales
• Competition Appeal Tribunal, a public body

Other businesses and organisations

• CAT Telecom, 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, in India
• Cognitive Abilities Test (CogAT), in the US
• Computerized adaptive testing, a method for administering tests

Linguistics

• Catalan language (ISO 639-2 and -3 code: cat)
• Central Atlas Tamazight, a language in North Africa
• Communication accommodation theory, in sociolinguistics

Science and technology

Biology and medicine

• Calibrated automated thrombogram, a coagulation test
• CAT scan or CT scan, a medical imaging X-ray technology
• Combat application tourniquet, a tourniquet developed for use in field combat situations
• Conidial anastomosis tubes, a specialised hyphae emerging from some asexual fungal spores
• Cognitive analytic therapy, a psychological therapy

Animals

• Felidae (the cats or felids), a family of Carnivorans
  • Pantherinae (big cats), a subfamily
  • Felinae (small cats), the other subfamily

Biochemistry

• CAT, the gene for Catalase
• Chloramphenicol acetyltransferase, an enzyme and antibiotic resistance gene
• Methcathinone or cat, a drug

Computing

• Cat, categories of twisted pair network cabling
• CAT (phototypesetter) (Computer Assisted Typesetter), a 1972 phototypesetter
• cat (Unix), a Unix utility that concatenates and lists files
• Cat, a clone of the Apple II home computer
• Canon Cat, a desktop computer
• Computer-assisted translation or computer-aided translation
• Computer aided transceiver
• Novation CAT, a modem series
• .cat, a top-level domain for Catalan language and culture

Mathematics

• Cat, the category of small categories in category theory
• CAT(k) space, a type of metric space

Physics

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

Other technology

• Catalyst (cat.), in chemistry
  • Catalytic converter, an exhaust device

People

• Cat (nickname), a list of people with the nickname
• Cat Glover (born 1968), American choreographer, dancer and singer
• Cat Power (born 1972), American singer-songwriter (real name: Charlyn Marshall)
• Cat Rambo (born 1963), American writer and editor
• Cat Stevens (born 1948), British singer-songwriter (real name: Yusuf Islam)

Places

• Çat, 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, Camarillo, California
• Canby Area Transit, Oregon
• Capital Area Transit (Harrisburg), Pennsylvania
• Capital Area Transit (Raleigh), North Carolina
• Clemson Area Transit, South Carolina
• Collier Area Transit, Florida

Aviation

• Civil Air Transport (CAT, former ICAO code: CAT), a former Chinese airline, in later years owned by the CIA
• Compagnie Air Transport, a defunct airline of France
• Clear-air turbulence

Other transportation

• Caterham railway station (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

Other uses

• Talleres de Córdoba 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, a time zone
• Certified Accounting Technician
• Coital alignment technique, a sexual position
• Community asset transfer, a UK legal process
• Cat o' nine tails or cat, a flogging instrument