Usually means: Structured patterns of martial movements.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. kata: Merriam-Webster
  2. kata: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. kata: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. kata, kata-: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Kata, kata: Wordnik
  6. kata: Wiktionary
  7. kata-: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. kata: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. kata, kata-: Dictionary.com
  10. KATA (AM), KATA, Kata (disambiguation), Kata (martial arts), Kata (name), Kata (people), Kata (programming), Kata: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Kata: Rhymezone
  12. kata: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. kata, kata-: MyWord.info
  14. kata, kata-: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. kata-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Kata (martial arts), kata, kata-: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. KATA: Acronym Finder

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Kata: Urban Dictionary

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. Karate Terms (No longer online)
  3. Kata: Sports Definitions

(Note: See katas as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (kata)

noun:  (martial arts) Any of a sequence of positions and movements used in many martial arts.
noun:  (by extension, programming) A short programming exercise to improve one's skills through practice and repetition.
noun:  (in combination) A drop (in temperature).
adverb:  In a direction analogous to down, but along the additional axis added by the fourth dimension.
noun:  Ellipsis of kata thermometer. [(measuring instrument) A device consisting principally of an alcohol thermometer, used to measure air cooling power and, indirectly, small wind speeds in circulating air, by measuring the time taken for the temperature of the bulb of alcohol to make a specified drop (100° to 95°F).]
noun:  Alternative form of gata (“type of Armenian pastry”) [A kind of pastry in Armenia and some neighboring countries.]

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