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Cat (disambiguation)

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Cat commonly refers to :

  • Housecat, a domestic pet, Felis silvestris catus
  • any other member of Felidae, the cat family containing wild cats
  • Schrödinger's cat

Cat may also refer to:

  • .cat, a top-level domain
  • cat (Unix), the concatenate program in the Unix operating system
  • Cat (Red Dwarf), a character in the TV show Red Dwarf
  • Cat (role-playing game), an indie role-playing game about cats
  • Cat (kingdom), a Dark Ages Pictish kingdom
  • "Cat", a song by The Sugarcubes from their 1988 album Life's Too Good
  • Cat (Catherine Glover), a female singer and protogé of Prince, who released the Bomb The Bass produced single "Catwoman" in 1989.

Cat may also be an abbreviation for:

  • some entries from CAT
  • Cat o' nine tails, a multi-tailed whip used for severe physical punishment
  • Catalonia, an autonomous community in Spain
  • Catalan language
  • Catalytic converter, used in automobiles
  • Caterpillar Inc., a manufacturer of large construction and industrial equipment
  • Catamaran, a kind of boat
  • Catboat, a kind of boat
  • Cat Stevens, British musician, singer-songwriter and a prominent convert to Islam
  • Catherine, a feminine name, see Katherine
  • Concatenation, the act of joining two strings of characters end to end.
  • Catwoman a DC comics character, at times foe or ally of the Batman.
  • in category theory, Cat denotes the category of small categories


Cats or CATS may refer to:

  • CATS, the musical
  • The Cats, a Dutch band
  • CATS (software), an EDA software
  • CATS - Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme - used by many UK universities to evaluate modular degrees.
  • CATS, the main villain of the video game Zero Wing, and speaker of the famous line "All your base are belong to us!"
  • Central Autónoma de Trabajadores Salvadoreños, a trade union in El Salvador.
  • CATS (trading system), Computer Assisted Trading System, an automated trading system developed by the Toronto Stock Exchange
  • Cats — The former name of a South African Rugby Union club based in Johannesburg now known as the Lions
  • CATS (transit) Charlotte Area Transit System, the regional transit authority in Charlotte, North Carolina

See also: Kat, The Cat


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