PAT

Pat or PAT may refer to:

Given name

• Patricia, a female given name
• Patrick (given name), a male given name

Fictional characters

• Pat (Saturday Night Live), a recurring androgynous character on Saturday Night Live
• Postman Pat, a children's TV character

Places

• Pat, Hungary, a village in Zala county, Hungary
• Pat, Iran, a village in Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran
• Pat, Jerusalem, a neighborhood in southern Jerusalem, Israel
• Pat River, a river of Thailand, it joins the Nan River in Uttaradit Province
• Port Arthur, Texas, US

Organizations

• Pakistan Awami Tehrik, a political party in Pakistan
• Polish Telegraphic Agency, the official news agency of Poland between 1918 and 1991
• Port Authority Transit, the former name of the Port Authority of Allegheny County, Pittsburgh, US
• Port Authority of Thailand
• Professional Association of Teachers, the former name of the trade union Voice
• Pets As Therapy, which provides visiting dogs and cats to establishments in the UK

Science and technology

• Portable Appliance Test
• Powder-actuated tool
• Photographic Activity Test, an ISO standard test
• Pat silk, a type of silk
• Picture and Text, in television technology; See Picture-in-picture

Medicine and biology

• Narcisse Théophile Patouillard (1854-1926) (standard botanical abbreviation "Pat.") French pharmacist and mycologist
• Process Analytical Technology
• Picture Arrangement Test
• Poly(A) Test, in genetic analysis
• Paddington Alcohol Test, a screen for alcohol-related problems
• Paroxysmal Atrial Tachycardia, a medical term for "sudden onset of fast heart beating"
• Phenylaminotetralin, class of organic compounds, some of which have novel activity at histamine receptors
• Photoacoustic tomography, by an ultrasound scan
• Prism adaptation test
• Phosphinothricin acetyltransferase, an enzyme
• Pseudotropine acyltransferase, an enzyme
• Putrescine aminotransferase, an enzyme

Computing

• Page Attribute Table, an extension to the page table formats of x86 and x86-64 microprocessors
• Performance acceleration technology an Intel memory performance technology
• Port address translation, the most common type of network address translation
• PAT (model checker) (Process Analysis Toolkit), a model checking tool
• Program Association Table, Program Specific Information metadata in a MPEG-2/DVB stream

Transportation

• Personal automated transport, or personal rapid transit
• Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Airport (IATA code), an airport in India
• Patricroft railway station (National Rail station code), England
• Port Authority Transit, former name of the Port Authority of Allegheny County, US

Other uses

• Point after touchdown, in North American football
• Profit After Tax
• Prodotto agroalimentare tradizionale, a grade of Protected Geographical Status controlled by the government within Italy
• Pat, a form of physical intimacy

See also

• I = PAT, in environmental impact
• Patrick (disambiguation)
• Patricia (disambiguation)
• PATS (disambiguation)