Fat (disambiguation)

Fat is a group of compounds that are generally soluble in organic solvents and largely insoluble in water. Another common meaning is a person or animal afflicted with obesity.

Fat or FAT may also refer to:

Biology

• Adipose tissue, body fat
• FAT (gene), protocadherin Fat 1, a protein that in humans is encoded by the FAT1 gene
• Fatty acid translocase, also known as CD36

Arts and entertainment

• Fat (EP), by American punk rock band the Descendents
• "Fat" (song), by Weird Al Yankovic from his album Even Worse
• "Fat", a song by Violent Femmes from the album 3
• Wo Fat, Steve McGarrett's archenemy in the television series Hawaii Five-O
• "Fat" (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit), an episode in season 7 of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
• The Fat, a former Australian television sports talk show
• Fat (novel), by Rob Grant
• "Fat", a short story by Raymond Carver from the collection Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?

Acronyms and initialisms

• Forces Armées Tchadiennes, the armed forces of the country of Chad
• Far Eastern Air Transport, an airline of the Republic of China on Taiwan
• Fashion Architecture Taste, an art and architecture collective based in London
• Field Artillery Tractor, a vehicle for towing field artillery
• File Allocation Table, a widely used DOS and Windows computer file system
• Football Association of Thailand, the governing body of football in Thailand
• Free Art and Technology Lab, a New York based artist group
• Frente Auténtico del Trabajo, (Authentic Labor Front), a Mexican labor confederation
• Fully automatic time, a method of recording times during running events
• Factory acceptance testing, acceptance testing prior to installation

People

• Fan Fat, King of Champa (in what is now Vietnam) from 349 to 380
• Fat Mike Burkett (born 1967), American musician, producer, lead vocalist and bassist for the punk rock band NOFX
• Lafayette Fat Lever (born 1960), American National Basketball Association player
• Ralph Waldsmith (1892-1925), American football player in the early days of the National Football League, nicknamed "Fat"

Other uses

• UBS Mayu, first flagship of the Burmese Navy, originally built as the frigate HMS Fat
• FAT (torpedo), a type of torpedo used by Germany during World War II
• Fat: An Appreciation of a Misunderstood Ingredient, with Recipes, a cookbook
• Fath, Iran, a village also known as Fāt
• IATA code for Fresno Yosemite International Airport, California, USA
• ISO 639-2 and 639-3 codes for the Fante dialect, (Mfantse, Fanti), a formal language (literary dialect) of the Akan language

See also

• Fats (disambiguation)
• Fatty (disambiguation)
• List of people known as the Fat
• Andrew Wong (politician) (born 1943), politician known in Hong Kong as "Uncle Fat" (full name Andrew Wong Wang Fat)
• Fat Joe, stage name of American rapper Joseph Antonio Cartagena (born 1970)
• Fat Albert, a character created by Bill Cosby and star of the animated series Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids
• Fat Tony (The Simpsons), a recurring character in The Simpsons
• Gordo (disambiguation), Spanish and Portuguese for "fat"