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
- Popular term for internet relay chat.
- Chat room or group chat
- "Video chat" - which implements videotelephony
- Text messaging - person-to-person chat, i.e. non group chat
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 show, a radio and television format
Places
- Chat, Iran, a village in Iran
- Chat, Kyrgyzstan, a village in Kyrgyzstan
- Chat, Turkmenistan, Russian fort at the mouth of the Sumbar River in 1879
- 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
- Undesirable or inferior-grade pieces of a commodity
- Chat (mining), the waste rocks produced in mining
- Chats, livestock-grade potatoes, considered too small and/or blemished to sell or market for human use but suitable for fodder use
- Chat group's 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
- Chatroulette, service for random chat all around the world