Car (disambiguation)

A car is a type of vehicle and a form of transportation, most often in American English and British English, an automobile.

Contrary to popular belief, cars don't actually move themselves, they just move the earth underneath them.

Car or CAR may also refer to:

Transportation

Vehicles

• Railroad car, a vehicle on a train that is not a locomotive
• Archaic for:
  • Chariot
  • Carriage
  • Cart
• The cab of an elevator
• A vehicle on a tram (trolley)

Media and entertainment

Films

• Cars (film), a 2006 computer animated film from Disney and Pixar
  • Cars (video game), a video game based on the film
• The Car, a 1977 suspense-horror film
• The Car (1997 film), a Malayalam film by Rajasenan starring Jayaram and Janardhanan

Music

• The Cars, an American rock band
  • The Cars (album), their debut album
• "Cars" (song), a 1979 single by Gary Numan
• "Car", a song by Built to Spill on their 1994 album There's Nothing Wrong with Love
• "The Car" (song), a song by Jeff Carson on his 1995 album Jeff Carson
• "Cars" (Fear Factory cover), a single by Fear Factory
• Peter Gabriel (1977 album), one of four albums named Peter Gabriel, often referred to as "Car" because of the photograph on the album cover

Other media

• Car Magazine, a British auto-enthusiast publication
• Cars (painting), a series of paintings by Andy Warhol
• The Car (novel), by Gary Paulsen
• "The Car" (The Assistants episode), the first episode of the Nickelodeon sitcom

Computer science

• Car (function), along with cdr, a primitive operation on linked lists in the LISP programming language
• Clock with Adaptive Replacement, a page replacement algorithm

Geography and politics

• Car Allowance Rebate System (CARS), colloquially known as "Cash for Clunkers", a U.S. federal program
• Central African Republic
• Cordillera Administrative Region, a region of the Philippines
• Car, Azerbaijan, a village
• Cars, Gironde, France
• Les Cars, Haute-Vienne, France
• Action Committee for Renewal (Comité d'Action pour la Renouveau), a political party of Togo

Economics and finance

• Capital adequacy ratio, a ratio of a bank's capital to its risk
• Cost Accrual Ratio, an accounting formula
• Cumulative average return, a financial concept related to the time value of money
• Cumulative abnormal return

Firearms

• Colt Automatic Rifle, a 5.56 mm NATO firearm
• CAR-15, a family of AR-15 and M16 rifle-based firearms
• Center Axis Relock, a shooting technique

Military

• The Canadian Airborne Regiment, a Canadian Forces formation
• Combat Action Ribbon, a United States military decoration

Sports

• Confederation of African Rugby, the governing body for rugby unions in Africa
• Carolina Panthers, a football team
• Carolina Hurricanes, an ice hockey team
• NASCAR, a racecar league

Other meanings

• Car (King of Caria)
• Car (King of Megara)
• Car language, the most widely spoken of the Nicobarese languages
• CAR and CDR, operations used in computer programming
• Carina (constellation)
• Catecholamine releaser
• Central apparatus room, an equipment room found at broadcasting facilities
• Central African Republic, State in Central Africa
• Children of the American Revolution, a genealogical society
• Contractor's all risk (CAR) insurance, see builder's risk insurance
• Computer-assisted reporting, the use of computers in researching news stories
• Computer-assisted reviewing, the use of computer software for more effective text reviewing
• Cordillera Administrative Region, a region of the Philippines
• Canonical anticommutation relation, a concept in quantum field theory
• Center Axis Relock
• CAR (Cocksackie Adenovirus Receptor), alternative symbol for the human gene CXADR
• Constitutive androstane receptor
• CAR (Cortisol awakening response), a physiological response when a person wakes up
• The spelling of tsar used in several Slavic languages

See also

• CARS (disambiguation)
• Carr (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles containing Car