Chat or chats may refer to:

Communication

Conversation Conversation is interactive communication between two or more people. The development of conversational skills and etiquette is an important part of socialization. The development of conversational skills in a new language is a frequent focus ...

, particularly casual *

Online chat Online chat may refer to any kind of communication over the Internet that offers a real-time transmission of text messages from sender to receiver. Chat messages are generally short in order to enable other participants to respond quickly. Th ...

, text message communication over the Internet in real-time *

Synchronous conferencing Synchronous conferencing is the formal term used in computing, in particular in computer-mediated communication, collaboration and learning, to describe technologies informally known as online chat. It is sometimes extended to include audio/vi ...

, a formal term for online chat * SMS chat, a form of

text messaging Text messaging, or texting, is the act of composing and sending electronic messages, typically consisting of alphabetic and numeric characters, between two or more users of mobile devices, desktops/ laptops, or another type of compatible compu ...

* A popular term for

internet relay chat Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is a text-based chat system for instant messaging. IRC is designed for group communication in discussion forums, called '' channels'', but also allows one-on-one communication via private messages as well as chat a ...

Chat room The term chat room, or chatroom (and sometimes group chat; abbreviated as GC), is primarily used to describe any form of synchronous conferencing, occasionally even asynchronous conferencing. The term can thus mean any technology, ranging from ...

or group chat *

Video chat Videotelephony, also known as videoconferencing and video teleconferencing, is the two-way or multipoint reception and transmission of audio and video signals by people in different locations for real time communication.McGraw-Hill Concise Enc ...

Text messaging Text messaging, or texting, is the act of composing and sending electronic messages, typically consisting of alphabetic and numeric characters, between two or more users of mobile devices, desktops/ laptops, or another type of compatible compu ...

, person-to-person chat, i.e. non group chat

Entertainment

* ''Chat'' (magazine), a British weekly women's magazine *

CHAT-FM CHAT-FM is a Canadian radio station that broadcasts a country format at 94.5 FM in Medicine Hat, Alberta. The station is owned by the Jim Pattison Group. History The station originally began broadcasting as an AM station on November 1, 1946 a ...

, a radio station (94.5 FM) licensed to Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada *

CHAT-TV CHAT-TV ( analogue channel 6) is a television station in Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada, affiliated with Citytv. Owned by the Jim Pattison Broadcast Group, the station has studios at 10 Boundary Road SE in the nearby town of Redcliff, and its tr ...

, 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 talk show (or chat show in British English) is a television programming or radio programming genre structured around the act of spontaneous conversation.Bernard M. Timberg, Robert J. Erler'' (2010Television Talk: A History of the TV Talk Show ...

, a radio and television format

Places

Chat, Iran Kat ( fa, كت; also known as Chat) is a village in Bahmai-ye Garmsiri-ye Jonubi Rural District, in the Central District of Bahmai County, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, ...

, a village in Iran *

Chat, Kyrgyzstan Chat is a village in Jalal-Abad Region of Kyrgyzstan. It is part of the Aksy District Aksy ( ky, Аксы району) is a Districts of Kyrgyzstan, district of Jalal-Abad Region in western Kyrgyzstan. The seat lies at Kerben, Kyrgyzstan, Kerbe ...

, a village in Kyrgyzstan *Chat, Turkmenistan, a Russian fort at the mouth of the

Sumbar River The Sumbar (also Sari-su, Sara-su and Ṣáríṣú) is a fast flowing river in southern Turkmenistan and northern Iran. It a tributary of the Atrek. The name Sari-su means ''yellow water'' in Turkic languages, but is applied to a number of other ...

in 1879 *

Chat, California Chats (also, Chat) is a former settlement in Lassen County, California. It was located on the Nevada–California–Oregon Railway east-southeast of Beckwourth Pass and southeast of Summit A summit is a point on a surface that is higher in ...

, an alternate name of Chats, USA * CHAT (Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textile)

Science and medicine

Checklist for Autism in Toddlers The Checklist for Autism in Toddlers (CHAT) is a psychological questionnaire designed to evaluate risk for autism spectrum disorder in children ages 18–24 months. The 14-question test is filled out by the parent and a pediatrician or physician ...

, used in autism screening *

Choline acetyltransferase Choline acetyltransferase (commonly abbreviated as ChAT, but sometimes CAT) is a transferase enzyme responsible for the synthesis of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine. ChAT catalyzes the transfer of an acetyl group from the coenzyme acetyl-Co ...

, an enzyme that synthesises acetylcholine *

(Z)-3-hexen-1-ol acetyltransferase (Z)-3-hexen-1-ol acetyltransferase (, ''CHAT'', ''At3g03480'') is an enzyme with systematic name ''acetyl-CoA:(3Z)-hex-3-en-1-ol acetyltransferase''. This enzyme catalyses the following chemical reaction : acetyl-CoA Acetyl-CoA (acetyl coenzym ...

, an enzyme

Birds

Chat (bird) Chats (formerly sometimes known as "chat-thrushes") are a group of small Old World insectivorous birds formerly classified as members of the thrush family (Turdidae), but following genetic DNA analysis, are now considered to belong to the Old Wo ...

, 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 The yellow-breasted chat (''Icteria virens'') is a large songbird found in North America, and is the only member of the family Icteriidae. It was once a member of the New World warbler family, but in 2017, the American Ornithological Society move ...

(''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 The Chats are an Australian punk rock band that formed in 2016 in the Sunshine Coast, Queensland. They describe their sound as "shed rock". The current band lineup is composed of guitarist Josh Hardy, drummer Matt Boggis, and bassist and vocali ...

, an Australian garage punk band *

Community Hebrew Academy of Toronto The Anne & Max Tanenbaum Community Hebrew Academy of Toronto (), also known as CHAT and TanenbaumCHAT, is a private Jewish high school in Toronto, Ontario, established in 1960. As of 2012, it was the largest private high school in Canada. A seco ...

, a Jewish secondary school in Toronto *

Choosing Healthplans All Together "Choosing Healthplans All Together" (CHAT) is the name given to a simulation exercise in which players decide which benefit types (e.g. hospitalization, consultations, tests, imaging, medicines, etc.) they would like to include in their health insur ...

, a health insurance choosing exercise *

Cultural-historical activity theory Cultural-historical activity theory (CHAT) is a theoretical framework which helps to understand and analyse the relationship between the human mind (what people think and feel) and activity (what people do). It traces its origins to the founders of ...

, in social psychology *Chāt or

Chaat Chaat, or chāt ( IAST: ''cāṭ)'' () is a family of savoury snacks that originated in North India, typically served as an hors d'oeuvre or at roadside tracks from stalls or food carts across South Asia in North India, Pakistan, Nepal an ...

, Indian and Pakistani savoury snacks *Chats,

potato The potato is a starchy food, a tuber of the plant ''Solanum tuberosum'' and is a root vegetable native to the Americas. The plant is a perennial in the nightshade family Solanaceae. Wild potato species can be found from the southern Un ...

es 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 The Child Language Data Exchange System (CHILDES) is a corpus established in 1984 by Brian MacWhinney and Catherine Snow to serve as a central repository for data of first language acquisition. Its earliest transcripts date from the 1960s, and it ...