Rat (disambiguation)

A rat is a rodent of the genus Rattus. Rat may also mean similar species of rodent, especially those of the family Muridae

Rat or Rats may also refer to:

Places

• Rat, Missouri, an unincorporated community
• Rat Island (disambiguation)
• Rat Lake (Cottonwood County, Minnesota), United States
• Rat River (disambiguation)
• Rat or Murphy Lake (Cherry County, Nebraska), United States

People

• Rat (Ned's Atomic Dustbin), a band member of Ned's Atomic Dustbin
• Blek le Rat (born Xavier 1952), French graffiti artist
• Răzvan Raţ (born 1981), Romanian footballer
• Vasiliy Rats (born 1961), Ukrainian footballer

Technology

Computing

• Radio access technology, the underlying physical connection method for a radio-based communication network
• Register alias table, in a computer processor
• Regression analysis of time series, a statistical package
• Remote administration tool, software allowing remote control

Other

• De Rat, IJlst, a wind powered saw mill
• Ram air turbine
• Rock Abrasion Tool, part of the Mars rovers
• CL-70 RAT (Remote Articulated Track), an amphibious vehicle from Canadair
• Rocket Assisted Torpedo, a former name for the RUR-5 ASROC anti-submarine rocket developed by the U.S. Navy

Arts and entertainment

Fictional characters

• Rat (Pearls Before Swine), one of the main characters in the comic strip Pearls Before Swine
• Rat Rathbone, a fictional character in Robert Muchamore's CHERUB series
• Theodore Donald "Rat" Finch, a fictional computer hacker in The Core

Films

• Rat (film), a 2000 Irish film
• Rat, a 1998 documentary by Mark Lewis
• Rats: Night of Terror, a 1984 Italian film

Music

• Rats (album), a 1994 album by Sass Jordan
• "Rats" (Pearl Jam song), a song by Pearl Jam from their 1993 album Vs.
• "Rats" (The Kinks song), a song by The Kinks
• "Rats", a song from the album Not Accepted Anywhere by The Automatics

Other

• "Rat" (short story), a short science fiction story by James Patrick Kelly
• "Rats", an episode of The Protector

Other uses

• Rat (zodiac), one of the 12 signs of the Chinese zodiac
• Rat, a cut of beef; see shoulder tender
• Rat, a pejorative term for an informant or the act of "snitching"
• Rats, military slang for rations
• Rat, an informal name for the Ilaga, a Christian militia in Mindanao, Philippines
• Rat, a device for forming a hair bun
• Pro Co RAT, a guitar distortion pedal
• Rat (newspaper), an underground newspaper published in New York City
• Remote Associates Test, a creativity test used to determine a human's creative potential

See also

• The Rat (disambiguation)
• The Rats (disambiguation)
• All pages beginning with "Rat"
• All pages with titles containing Rat
• Raat (disambiguation)
• Ratt (disambiguation)
• RRAT