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