cat
verb
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L331107 on Wikidata ↗noun
- domesticated subspecies of feline animal, commonly kept as a house pet
- animal of the family Felidae
- a person, especially a man
- a devotee of jazz
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈkat/ / [ˈkʰat] / /ˈkæt/
adj
Etymology: Abbreviations.
- Catastrophic; terrible, disastrous.
“The weather was cat, so they returned home early.”
name
- Centre for Alternative Technology
- Counter Assault Team
- Citizens Area Transit
- Canadian Achievement Tests
- Cambridge Antibody Technology
- Abbreviation of Caterpillar Inc..
“Caterpillar (CAT)and Boston Consulting Group said their top executives would go but the companies are monitoring the situation closely.”
noun
- Acronym of Central Atlas Tamazight.
- Acronym of computer-adaptive test.
- Acronym of common admission test.
- Acronym of civil air transport.
- Acronym of clear-air turbulence.
- Acronym of computed axial tomography.
- Acronym of career aptitude test.
- Acronym of computer-assisted/aided translation.
- Acronym of credit authorization terminal.
- Acronym of citizenship advancement training.
- Acronym of computer-aided transceiver.
- Acronym of cosmic anisotropy telescope.
- Acronym of coital alignment technique.
- Acronym of conidial anastomosis tube.
- Acronym of chloramphenicol acetyltransferase.
- Acronym of crisis assessment team.
- Acronym of Consumer Acceptance of Technology.
verb
Etymology: From concatenate, derived from the program's function of concatenating files. Compare concat.
- To apply the cat command to (one or more files).
- To dump large amounts of data on (an unprepared target), usually with no intention of browsing it carefully.