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DAT

1 American  

abbreviation

  1. digital audiotape.

dat. 2 American  

abbreviation

  1. dative.

DAT 1 British  

abbreviation

  1. digital audio tape

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
dat. 2 British  

abbreviation

  1. dative

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Hyperliquid Strategies serves as a digital-asset treasury company, or DAT.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 20, 2026

DAT Solutions, a load board matching truckers and loads, said average spot prices for flatbed truck transport rose about 6% in December from a year earlier.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 2026

This could potentially complicate the interpretation of clinically commonly used brain DAT imaging results.

From Science Daily • May 28, 2024

That encounter also involved DAT officers who tried to stop a teenager they said was displaying “characteristics of an armed person.”

From Seattle Times • Nov. 9, 2023

One was running CNN’s Web site through a DAT projector, throwing oversized current-affairs images against the back wall.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer

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