Catalyst (disambiguation)

Catalyst may refer to:

Chemistry

* Catalyst in chemistry
* Catalyst (museum), a hands-on science centre and chemical industry museum in Widnes in Cheshire in England [http://www.catalyst.org.uk/index.htm]

Music, television and literature

* Catalyst (band), a funk/jazz outfit from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
* "Catalyst" (album), an album by New Found Glory
* "Catalyst", a song by Anna Nalick
* "Catalyst" (novel), a novel by Laurie Halse Anderson
* "Catalyst" (TV program), an Australian science journalism show
* "Catalyst", the second track in Slayer's album Christ Illusion
* "Catalyst" (Single), a song by Public Relations Exercise
*"Catalyst", a 2006 album by A Dark Halo

Economy

* Economic catalyst

Organizations

* Catalyst (think tank), a socialist left political thinktank based in London, England
* Catalyst Foundation, non-governmental organization, based in Minnesota, helping children in Vietnam
* Catalyst Technologies Venture Capital Group (The Catalyst Group), one of the first company incubators, founded by Nolan Bushnell in Sunnyvale, California

Technology

* Catalyst (software), a web application framework written in Perl
* Catalyst, a line of automatic test equipment produced by Teradyne
* Catalyst switch, a line of Ethernet switches manufactured by Cisco Systems.
* Catalyst drivers, a software suite developed by ATI Technologies for their graphics processing units.
* Catalytic converter, which helps modern automobiles to reduce toxicity of its emissions

Press

* Catalyst, is a monthly magazine run by the RMIT University Student Union.
* Catalyst Magazine, the magazine of the Commission for Racial Equality in the UK.

Misc

*Metaphoric uses, e.g. ""Charles Martel ... [was] a catalyst for the feudal system, which would see Europe through the Middle Ages."
* Catalyst is a method for managing projects implying evolutions in the organization and IT of a company. This method is copyrighted by CSC.

*Catalystic Thinking: Thinking that compels actions resulting in exponential results; A form of brain activity or thinking process, out of which emerges something completely different. A way of thinking that creates something new from previously known ideas

*THE Catalyst : Nickname of the famous Kevin Pratt. (See Also: WHLegend)