Cat

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A domestic cat (Felis catus), is a smaller, domesticated member of Felidae, the biological family of the cats. A cat can also refer to any member of the Felidae family.

Cat may also refer to:

• Cat (kingdom), a Dark Ages Pictish kingdom
• Cat (programming language), a functional stack-based programming language
• Cat (Red Dwarf), a character in the TV show Red Dwarf
• Cat (role-playing game), an indie role-playing game about cats
• cat (Unix), the concatenate program in the Unix operating system
• Cat (zodiac), a Vietnamese sign
• .cat, a top-level domain, applying to the whole Catalan-speaking community
• Caterpillar Inc., a manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines, and industrial gas turbines

Cats may refer to:

• Cats (musical), an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical
• Cats (film), a video version of the musical
• Jacob Cats (1577–1660), Dutch poet

The acronym CAT may refer to:

• Canadian Army Trophy, a NATO tank gunnery competition
• Capital Area Transit (Harrisburg), a public transit agency serving the Harrisburg region, Pennsylvania
• Capital Area Transit (Raleigh), a public transit agency serving the Raleigh region, North Carolina
• Chatham Area Transit, a public transit agency serving the Savannah region, Georgia
• Centre for Alternative Technology, an eco-centre in Powys, mid-Wales, U.K.
• Chloramphenicol acetyltransferase, an enzyme
• Coital alignment technique, a sex position designed to maximize clitoral stimulation
• Common Admission Test, an entrance exam conducted by the Indian Institutes of Management
• Computer-assisted translation or computer-aided translation
• Computed tomography, a medical imaging technology which may be known as CAT (i.e computed axial tomography) .

See also

• Schrödinger's cat, a thought experiment in quantum physics
• The Cat (disambiguation)
• Big cat, large cat species
• CATS (disambiguation)
• Kat (disambiguation)