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
• A popular term for internet relay chat
• Chat room or group chat
• Video chat
• Text messaging, person-to-person chat, i.e. non group chat
• Instant 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 Marvel Comics character
• Chat Chat, a 1995 album by Takako Minekawa
• Chat show, a radio and television format

Places

• Chat, Iran, a village in Iran
• Chat, Kyrgyzstan, a village in Kyrgyzstan
• Chat, Turkmenistan, a Russian fort at the mouth of the Sumbar River in 1879
• Chat, California, an 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, songbirds of genera Ashbyia and Epthianura (family Meliphagidae)
• American chats, songbirds of genus Granatellus (family Cardinalidae)
• Yellow-breasted chat (Icteria virens), an enigmatic North American songbird of unresolved affiliations

Other uses

• Chat (mining), the waste rocks produced in mining
• Chat (ppp), an automated conversational script with a modem
• The Chats, an Australian garage punk band
• Community Hebrew Academy of Toronto, a Jewish secondary school in Toronto
• Choosing Healthplans All Together, a health insurance choosing exercise
• Cultural-historical activity theory, in social psychology
• Chāt or Chaat, Indian and Pakistani savoury snacks
• Chats, potatoes considered too small and/or blemished for human use but suitable for fodder use
• Codes for the Human Analysis of Transcripts, a format used by the CHILDES project

See also

• Chat room (disambiguation)
• Chatbot (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles containing Chat
• Khat, a plant with stimulant properties in humans
• Chatroulette, service for random chat all around the world