Oat (plural: oats) is a cereal grain crop.

Oat or Oats may also refer to:

Botany

• Avena, the broader genus of oats

• Uniola paniculata, known as sea oats

People with the name

• Carleton Oats (born 1942), American football player

• Francis Oats (born 1848 – died 1918), was a Cornish miner who became chairman of De Beers diamond company.

• Nate Oats (born 1974), American basketball coach

Fictional characters

• Col. Oats, a character in the 1991 American science fiction comedy film Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey

• Mightily Oats, a character in the Terry Pratchett novel Carpe Jugulum

Other uses

• OATS, Open Source Assistive Technology Software, a source code repository

• Oats (horse), a racehorse

• Obligation assimilable du Trésor, a French government bond

• Occupied Arab Territories, a designation used by the United Nations that refers to territories that are occupied by Israel after the Six-Day War

• Ohio Achievement Test, now the Ohio Achievement Assessment

• Operational acceptance testing

• Optometry Admission Test, the widely used test for admission to a school of optometry

• Ornithine aminotransferase, an enzyme

• Outside air temperature

• Overseas Adventure Travel, an American travel agency

• Oxford Aviation Training, now Oxford Aviation Academy

• Oxygen atom transfer in redox reactions

• Organic acid technology in antifreeze

• Oats Studios, a science-fiction film studio started by Neill Blomkamp

• Scarborough Open Air Theatre, commonly abbreviated to OAT

• Old Anatolian Turkish, an extinct Turkic language

See also

• Captain Oats (disambiguation)

• Oates (disambiguation)

• Omicron Alpha Tau

• Oat Hills (disambiguation)

• Oat Mountain

• Oatmeal (disambiguation)