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

Contents 1 Transportation 1.1 Vehicles 2 Media and entertainment 3 Geography and politics 4 Economics and finance 5 Firearms 6 Military 7 Sports 8 Other meanings 9 See also

Car or CAR may also refer to:

[edit] Transportation

[edit] 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)

[edit] Media and entertainment

• Cars (film), a 2006 computer animated film from Disney and Pixar
  • Cars (video game), a video game based on the film
• 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", 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
• The Car, a 1977 suspense-horror film
• Car Magazine, a British auto-enthusiast publication

[edit] 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, a political party of Togo

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] Military

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

[edit] 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

[edit] Other meanings

• Catecholamine releaser
• Car (mythology), the leader of the Carians
• Car language, the most widely spoken of the Nicobarese languages
• CAR and CDR, operations used in computer programming
• Canonical anticommutation relation, a concept in quantum field theory
• 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
• Computer-assisted reporting, the use of computers in researching news stories
• Computer-assisted reviewing, the use of computer software for more effective text reviewing
• Carina (constellation)

• Center Axis Relock
• CAR (for Cocksackie Adenovirus Receptor), alternative symbol for the human gene CXADR
• Constitutive androstane receptor
• CAR for Cortisol awakening response, a physiological response when a person wakens up

[edit] See also

• Truck
• CARS
• Carr
• CXADR
• Cars

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