Seat (disambiguation)
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Seat can refer to:
A place to sit, (a "seat"), particularly the area one sits upon (rather than other elements, like armrests). It derives from Middle English sete and from Old Norse sæti.
See:
- Chair
- Car seat
- Infant car seat, for children in a car
- Airline seat
- Ejection seat, rescue seat in an aircraft
- Jump seat, auxiliary seat in a vehicle
- Left seat, pilot in command's seat
- Right seat, co-pilot's seat
- Saddle, a type of seat used on the backs of animals, bicycles (seebicycle seat), etc.
- Buttocks, the part of the body on which one sits
A place or office of authority:
This meaning derives from the Latin word situs, a place.
- Chair (official), a seat of office, authority, or dignity
- the family seat of a noble family, sometimes referred to as an ancestral seat.
- the Cathedra of a bishop
- Legislative seat, a membership in a parliament or other legislature
- Seat (legal entity), indicating where the headquarters of the entity are located
- An administrative centre, the capital city of an administrative region, such as:
- Country seat, a place in the country
- Throne, the original seat of authority from which others may be derived
- Seat (territorial-administrative unit) territorial-administrative unit in the medieval Hungarian Kingdom
Other
- SEAT, the Spanish car manufacturer, now owned by the Volkswagen Group (AG)
- Rebour, a French car manufacturer building cars in the early twentieth century, sold as Catalonia S.E.A.T. (Sociedad Española de Automóviles y Transportes)
- Southeast Area Transit, a bus agency in Connecticut.
- Seat Pagine Gialle, the Italian Yellow Pages group
- Single Engine Air Tanker, a type of aircraft
See also
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