Chat

Chat or chats may refer to:

Communication

• Conversation, particularly casual
• Online chat, text message communication over the Internet in real-time
• Synchronous conferencing, a formal term for online chat
• SMS chat, a form of text messaging

Entertainment

• Chat (magazine), a British weekly women's magazine
• CHAT-FM, a radio station (94.5 FM) licensed to Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
• CHAT-TV, a television station (channel 6) licensed to Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
• Le Chat, a Belgian comic strip
• Sophia "Chat" Sanduval, a character in Marvel Comics

Places

• Chat, Iran, a village in Iran
• Chat, Kyrgyzstan, a village in Kyrgyzstan
• Chat, California, alternate name of Chats, USA

Science and medicine

• Checklist for Autism in Toddlers, used in autism screening
• Choline acetyltransferase; an enzyme that synthesises acetylcholine
• (Z)-3-hexen-1-ol acetyltransferase, an enzyme

Birds

• Chat (bird), Old World flycatchers of subfamily Saxicolinae, which resemble small thrushes, as well as:
  • Australian chats, unrelated songbirds of genera Ashbyia and Epthianura (family Meliphagidae)
  • American chats, unrelated songbirds of genus Granatellus (family Cardinalidae)
  • Yellow-breasted chat (Icteria virens), an enigmatic North American songbird of unresolved affiliations

Other uses

• Codes for the Human Analysis of Transcripts, a format used by the CHILDES project
• Community Hebrew Academy of Toronto, a Jewish secondary school in Toronto
• Chat (ppp), an automated conversational script with a modem
• Chat (mining), the waste rocks produced in mining
• Chatgroups Groups Community
• Choosing Healthplans All Together, a health insurance choosing exercise
• Cultural-historical activity theory in social psychology

See also

• Chaat, Indian and Pakistani savoury snacks
• Khat, a plant with stimulant properties in humans
• Internet Relay Chat
• Bluechat, communication using Bluetooth devices
• Chatroulette, service for random chat all around the world