Usually means: Flat piece for floor covering.
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General (30 matching dictionaries)
  1. mat: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. mat: Merriam-Webster
  3. MAT, MAT, mat, mat, mat, mat: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. MAT, mat, mat, mat: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. mat, mat: Collins English Dictionary
  6. MAT, mat: Vocabulary.com
  7. Mat, Mat, mat, mat: Wordnik
  8. mat: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. MAT, Mat, mat: Wiktionary
  10. mat: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. mat: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. mat: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. MAT, m.a.t, mat: Dictionary.com
  14. mat: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. mat: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. M.A.T. (Mission Against Terror), MAT, Mat (Russian profanity), Mat (disambiguation), Mat (gymnastics), Mat (municipality), Mat (picture framing), Mat (river), Mat: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Mat: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. mat: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. mat: Rhymezone
  20. mat, mat, mat (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. mat: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. M.A.T, MAT: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. mat: FreeDictionary.org
  24. mat: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. MAT, mat: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. mat: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  27. mat: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  28. Mat: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. mat: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)
  3. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)
  4. MAT: Glossary of Art Terms

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. MAT: Accounting Glossary
  2. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Mat (picture framing), mat: Legal dictionary
  4. mat: Financial dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
  2. mat: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. mat: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. mat: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. mat, mat, mat: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words
  4. MAT: Acronym Finder
  5. MAT: Three Letter Words with definitions
  6. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  7. mat: Idioms

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. mat: LITTLE EXPLORERS(TM) Picture Dictionary
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  3. Bryological (No longer online)
  4. MAT: Cytokines & Cells Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia
  5. MAT: A Dictionary of Quaternary Acronyms and Abbreviations

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. mat, mat: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. M.A.T, mat: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Mat: Sports Definitions
  2. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

Tech (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. mat: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. MAT: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, CARTOGRAPHY, AND REMOTE SENSING
  3. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  4. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Composite Terms (No longer online)
  6. K & A glossary (No longer online)
  7. Mat: Fiberglass Glossary
  8. MAT: Industry Terms for Fiberglass

(Note: See mating as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A flat piece of coarse material used for wiping one’s feet, or as a decorative or protective floor covering.
noun:  A small flat piece of material used to protect a surface from anything hot or rough; a coaster.
noun:  (athletics) A floor pad to protect athletes.
noun:  A thickly tangled mess.
noun:  A thin layer of woven, non-woven, or knitted fiber that serves as reinforcement to a material.
noun:  A thin surface layer; superficial cover.
verb:  (transitive) To cover, protect or decorate with mats.
verb:  (intransitive) To form a thick, tangled mess; to interweave into, or like, a mat; to entangle.
noun:  (coppersmithing) An alloy of copper, tin, iron, etc.; white metal.
noun:  A diminutive of the male given name Matthew.
noun:  (Singapore, ethnic slur) a Malay man
noun:  (video games, slang, chiefly Fortnite, in the plural) Clipping of material. [Matter which may be shaped or manipulated, particularly in making something.]
noun:  (dated slang) Abbreviation of matinee (“performance at a theater”). [A showing of a movie, sporting event, or theatrical performance in the morning or afternoon.]
noun:  Alternative spelling of matte (“decorative border around a picture”) [(art, photography) A decorative border around a picture used to inset and center the contents of a frame.]
adjective:  Alternative form of matte (“not reflecting light”) [(American spelling) Dull; not reflective of light.]
noun:  (printing) Short for matrix. [The cavity or mold in which anything is formed.]
noun:  Initialism of medication-assisted treatment. [(medicine) Treatment of drug addiction by means of a replacement drug / medication]

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