PAT

PAT may refer to:

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Organizations

• Polish Telegraphic Agency, the official news agency of Poland between 1918 and 1991
• Port Authority Transit, the former name of the Port Authority of Allegheny County, Pittsburgh
• Port Authority of Thailand
• Professional Association of Teachers, the former name of the trade union Voice
• Pets As Therapy (PAT) in the UK provides visiting dogs and cats to establishments where pets are otherwise not available

Science and technology

• Portable Appliance Test
• Powder-actuated tool
• Photographic Activity Test, ISO 14523
• Picture and Text, in television technology - see Picture-in-picture

Medicine and biology

• Process Analytical Technology
• Picture Arrangement Test
• Poly(A) Test, in Genetic Analysis
• Paddington Alcohol Test, a screen for alcohol related problems
• Paroxysmal Atrial Tachycardia, a medical term for "sudden onset of fast heart beating"
• Phenylaminotetralin, class of organic compounds, some of which have novel activity at histamine receptors
• Photoacoustic tomography, by an ultrasound scan
• Prism adaptation test

Computers

• Page Attribute Table, an extension to the page table formats of x86 and x86-64 microprocessors
• Performance acceleration technology an Intel memory performance technology
• Port address translation, the most common type of network address translation.
• Process Analysis Toolkit, a model checking tool developed in the National University of Singapore
• Program Association Table, Program Specific Information metadata in a MPEG-2/DVB stream

Transportation

• Personal Automated Transport, or Personal rapid transit
• Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Airport, the IATA code for the airport in India
• Patricroft railway station, England by National Rail station code
• PATransit, former name of the Port Authority of Allegheny County

Other uses

• PAT (American football)
• Port Arthur, Texas
• Profit After Tax
• Prodotto agroalimentare tradizionale, a grade of Protected Geographical Status controlled by the government within Italy

See also

• All pages beginning with "PAT"
• All pages with titles containing "PAT"

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