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- (acronym) . Centre for Alternative Technology.
- (acronym) . Counter Assault Team.
- (acronym) . Computer-adaptive test.
- (acronym) . Common Admission Test.
- (acronym) . Civil Air Transport.
- (acronym) . Citizens Area Transit.
- (acronym) . Clear air turbulence.
- (acronym) . (medicine) computed axial tomography.
- (acronym) . Career Aptitude Test.
- (acronym) . Computer-assisted translation.
- (acronym) . Canadian Achievement Tests.
- (acronym) . Computer Aided Translation.
- (acronym) . Cambridge Antibody Technology.
- (acronym) . Credit Authorization Terminal.
- (acronym) . Citizenship Advancement Training.
- (acronym) . Computer Aided Transceiver.
- (acronym) . Cosmic Anisotropy Telescope.
- (acronym) . Coital Alignment Technique.
- (acronym) . conidial anastomosis tube.
- (acronym) . chloramphenicol acetyltransferase.
- (acronym) . crisis assessment team.
- Noun. (slang) The Caterpillar brand of heavy machinery.
- Noun. A domesticated subspecies (qualifier, Felis silvestris catus) of feline animal, commonly kept as a house pet. (defdate, from 8th c.) .
- Noun. Any similar animal of the family ''Felidae'', which includes lions, tigers, etc.
- Noun. A catfish.
- Noun. (derogatory) A spiteful or angry woman. (defdate, from earlier 13th c.) .
- Noun. An enthusiast or player of jazz.
- Noun. (slang) A person (usually male).
- Noun. (nautical) A strong tackle used to hoist an anchor to the cathead of a ship.
- Noun. (nautical) Contraction of cat-o'-nine-tails.
- Noun. (slang) Any of a variety of earth-moving machines. (from their manufacturer Caterpillar Inc.).
- Noun. (archaic) A sturdy merchant sailing vessel (qualifier, now only in "catboat") .
- Noun. (archaic, uncountable) The game of "trap and ball" (also called "cat and dog").
- Noun. (archaic, uncountable) The trap of the game of "trap and ball".
- Noun. (slang) Prostitute. (defdate, from at least early 15th c.) .
- Noun. (slang, vulgar) A vagina; female external genitalia.
- Verb. (nautical) To hoist (the anchor) by its ring so that it hangs at the cathead.
- Verb. (nautical) To flog with a cat-o'-nine-tails.
- Verb. (slang) To vomit something.
- Noun. A catamaran.
- Noun. (computing) A ‘catenate’ program and command in Unix that reads one or more files and directs their content to an output device.
- Verb. (computing) To apply the '''cat''' command to (a file).
- Verb. (computing, _) To dump large amounts of data on (an unprepared target) usually with no intention of browsing it carefully.
- Adjective. (Ireland, informal) terrible, disastrous.
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