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 is any direct text-, audio- or video-based (webcams), one-on-one or one-to-many ( group) chat (formally also known as synchronous conferencing), using tools such as instant messengers, Internet Relay Chat (IRC), talkers and possi ...

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

Synchronous conferencing Online chat is any direct text-, audio- or video-based (webcams), one-on-one or one-to-many ( group) chat (formally also known as synchronous conferencing), using tools such as instant messengers, Internet Relay Chat (IRC), talkers and possib ...

, 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 phones, tablet computers, smartwatches, desktops/laptops, or ...

* A popular term for

internet relay chat IRC (Internet Relay Chat) is a text-based chat system for instant messaging. IRC is designed for Many-to-many, group communication in discussion forums, called ''#Channels, channels'', but also allows one-on-one communication via instant mess ...

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 *

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 phones, tablet computers, smartwatches, desktops/laptops, or ...

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

Instant messaging Instant messaging (IM) technology is a type of synchronous computer-mediated communication involving the immediate ( real-time) transmission of messages between two or more parties over the Internet or another computer network. Originally involv ...

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 CHAT-TV (Analog television, analogue channel 6) was a television station in Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada, last affiliated with Citytv. Owned by the Jim Pattison Group#The Jim Pattison Media Group, Jim Pattison Broadcast Group, the station had s ...

, a television station (channel 6) licensed to Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada * ''

Le Chat ''Le Chat'' (''Le Cat'' in English-language editions) is a Belgian comic strip, created by Philippe Geluck. Foremost published daily in the newspaper '' Le Soir'' from March 22, 1983, until March 23, 2013, it is since issued directly as complete ...

'', a Belgian comic strip * Sophia "Chat" Sanduval, a Marvel Comics character * '' Chat Chat'', a 1995 album by Takako Minekawa *

Chat show A talk show is a television programming, radio programming or podcast genre structured around the act of spontaneous conversation.Bernard M. Timberg, Robert J. Erler'' (2010Television Talk: A History of the TV Talk Show', pp.3-4Erler, Robert (20 ...

, 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

ChatGPT ChatGPT is a generative artificial intelligence chatbot developed by OpenAI and released on November 30, 2022. It uses large language models (LLMs) such as GPT-4o as well as other Multimodal learning, multimodal models to create human-like re ...

, a

chatbot A chatbot (originally chatterbot) is a software application or web interface designed to have textual or spoken conversations. Modern chatbots are typically online and use generative artificial intelligence systems that are capable of main ...

developed by

OpenAI OpenAI, Inc. is an American artificial intelligence (AI) organization founded in December 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. It aims to develop "safe and beneficial" artificial general intelligence (AGI), which it defines ...

* 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,

potato The potato () is a starchy tuberous vegetable native to the Americas that is consumed as a staple food in many parts of the world. Potatoes are underground stem tubers of the plant ''Solanum tuberosum'', a perennial in the nightshade famil ...