NEAT

NEAT may stand for:

  • Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking, a program run by NASA and the JPL to discover near-Earth objects
  • Neuroevolution of augmenting topologies,a genetic algorithm for the generation of evolving artificial neural networks
  • Neue Eisenbahn-Alpentransversale, German for AlpTransit, rail links through the Swiss Alps under construction
  • Non-exercise associated thermogenesis, a way of heat production in organisms
  • North European Aerospace Test range, an organisation operating rocket test ranges in Sweden
  • Northeast Asia Trade Tower, an office building in South Korea
  • NEAT chipset, a tree chip chipset for IBM PC compatible computers
  • New England Air Transport, an airline operating in Maine from 2008 to 2009
  • National Exchange for Automated Trading, the trading system of the National Stock Exchange of India
  • National Electronic Autocoding Technique, a language for NCR 315 computers
  • Neat (bartending), a bartending term for liquor consumed with no additives or ice
  • neat, an old word for an individual animal of cattle

Famous quotes containing the word neat:

    “Here lies the body of William Jones
    Who all his life collected bones,
    Till Death, that grim and boney spectre,
    That universal bone collector,
    Boned old Jones, so neat and tidy,
    And here he lies, all bona fide.”
    —Anonymous. “Epitaph on William Jones,” from Eleanor Broughton’s Varia (1925)

    “I wish I could write a beautiful book to break those hearts that are soon to cease to exist: a book of faith and small neat worlds and of people who live by the philosophies of popular songs.”
    —Zelda Fitzgerald (1900–1948)

    “That’s the really neat thing about Dan Quayle, as you must have realized from the first moment you looked into those lovely blue eyes: impeachment insurance.”
    —Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)