Pat
Pat or PAT may refer to:
Arts, entertainment and media
[edit]Fictional characters
[edit]- Pat (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland), a gardener
- Pat (Saturday Night Live), an androgynous character
- Postman Pat, a British children's TV character
- Pat, from the Czech series Pat & Mat
- Pat the Dog, a character from the TV show of the same name
- Pat, or Lucky's Dad, a Bluey character
- Pat, daughter-in-law of Jake the Dog in Adventure Time
Other uses in arts, entertainment and media
[edit]- "Pat" (album), by Pat Boone, 1957
- PAT (TV channel) , in Bolivia
Businesses and organisations
[edit]- Pakistan Awami Tehreek, a political party
- Polish Telegraphic Agency, the official news agency of Poland 1918–1991
- Port Authority of Thailand
- Professional Association of Teachers, later Voice, a former British trade union
People
[edit]- Patrick (given name), including a list of people with the name, sometimes known as Pat
- Patricia, a feminine given name, including a list of people with the name, sometimes known as Pat
- Pat., standard botanical abbreviation for Narcisse Théophile Patouillard (1854–1926), French pharmacist and mycologist
- Jenny Pat (1981–2014), Hong Kong-born, Chinese-Canadian international art dealer, visual artist, and television personality
Places
[edit]- Pat, Hungary
- Pat, Iran
- Pat, Jerusalem
- Pat River, Quebec, Canada
- Port Arthur, Texas, U.S., nickname PAT
- Patince (Hungarian: Pat), a village in Slovakia
Science and technology
[edit]Computing
[edit]- PAT (model checker), the Process Analysis Toolkit
- Page attribute table, in x86 and x86-64 memory caching
- Performance acceleration technology, an Intel memory performance technology
- Port address translation, a type of network address translation
- Program Association Table, in an MPEG transport stream
- Personal access token, a password alternative
Medicine and biology
[edit]- Paddington alcohol test, for alcohol-related problems
- Paroxysmal atrial tachycardia, an episode of arrhythmia that begins and ends abruptly
- Peripheral Arterial Tone, a noninvasive measure
- Phosphinothricin acetyltransferase, an enzyme
- Photoacoustic tomography, by an ultrasound scan
- Picture arrangement test, in psychological testing
- Process analytical technology, in pharmaceutical manufacturing
- Pseudotropine acyltransferase, an enzyme
- Putrescine aminotransferase, an enzyme
Other uses in science and technology
[edit]- Photographic Activity Test, an ISO standard test
- Portable appliance testing, an electrical safety test
- Powder-actuated tool, a type of nail gun
Transportation
[edit]- Patricroft railway station, Manchester, England, station code PAT
- Patterson railway station, Melbourne, Australia, station code PAT
- Port Authority Transit, later Pittsburgh Regional Transit, in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, U.S.
- Jay Prakash Narayan Airport, Patna, India, IATA airport code PAT
Other uses
[edit]- Pat silk, a variety of silk
- Point after touchdown, in American football
- Prodotto agroalimentare tradizionale, an official approval for traditional Italian regional food products
- Pat hand, in the card game of poker
See also
[edit]- Patricia (disambiguation)
- Patrick (disambiguation)
- PATS (disambiguation)
- Patt (disambiguation)
- Expatriate, or ex-pat, a person residing in a country other than their native country
- I = PAT, describe the impact of human activity on the environment.