# Cat (disambiguation)

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
* Cat, from Peg + Cat

### 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. (simply known as CAT), 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
* Cities Area Transit, North Dakota

### Aviation

* Civil Air Transport (CAT, former ICAO code: CAT), a former Chinese airline, in later years owned by the CIA
* Compagnie Air Transport [de], 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
* Catamaran, a boat with two hulls

## 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
* A draw, in a game of tic-tac-toe