Fat (disambiguation)

Fat is an oily or greasy organic substance known as an Aku.

Fat or FAT may also refer to:

Biology and healthcare

• Adipose tissue, body fat
• CD36, a protein also known as fatty acid translocase
• FAT1, a gene
• Obesity, too much body fat
• Overweight, too much body fat
• Triglyceride, an ester of glycerol with three fatty acids

Arts, entertainment, and media

Literature

• Fat (cookbook), by Jennifer McLagan
• Fat (novel), by Rob Grant
• "Fat", a short story by Raymond Carver from the collection Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?

Music

• Fat (EP), by American punk rock band the Descendents
• "Fat" (song), a parody of Michael Jackson's "Bad" by Weird Al Yankovic
• "Fat", a song by Violent Femmes from the album 3
• "Fat", a song by Lindemann from the album Skills in Pills

Television

• "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

Organizations

• Fashion Architecture Taste, an art and architecture collective based in London
• Free Art and Technology Lab, a New York-based artist group

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

• Fat (2013 film), a 2013 indie drama film
• Wo Fat, Steve McGarrett's archenemy in the television series Hawaii Five-O

Military

• FAT (torpedo), a type of torpedo used by Germany during World War II
• Field Artillery Tractor, a vehicle for towing field artillery
• Forces Armées Tchadiennes, the armed forces of the country of Chad

People

• Fan Fat, the king of Champa (in what is now Vietnam) from 349 to 380
• Lafayette Fat Lever (born 1960), an American National Basketball Association player
• Ralph Waldsmith (1892-1925), an American football player in the early days of the National Football League, nicknamed "Fat"
• Andrew Wong (politician) (born 1943), a politician known in Hong Kong as "Uncle Fat" (full name Andrew Wong Wang Fat)

Places

• Fath, Iran, a village also known as "Fāt"
• Fresno Yosemite International Airport in the U.S. state of California, IATA code FAT

Other uses

• FAT, ISO 639-2 and 639-3 codes for the Fante dialect (Mfantse, Fanti), a formal language (literary dialect) of the Akan language
• Factory acceptance testing, acceptance testing prior to installation
• Far Eastern Air Transport, an airline on Taiwan
• Frente Auténtico del Trabajo (Authentic Labor Front), a Mexican labor confederation
• File Allocation Table, a computer file system architecture and a family of file systems utilizing it
• Football Association of Thailand, the governing body of football in Thailand
• Fully automatic time, a method of recording times during running events

See also

• Fats (disambiguation)
• Fatty (disambiguation)
• Gordo (disambiguation), the Spanish and Portuguese word for "fat"
• List of people known as the Fat
• Mardi Gras, Fat Tuesday
• Phat (disambiguation)