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vats

vats is the plural of vat.

vats is the third-person singular simple present indicative of vat.

Meaning of vat

Noun

vat (plural vats)

  1. A large tub, such as is used for making wine or for tanning.
    • a vat of liquid
  2. A square, hollow place on the back of a calcining furnace, where tin ore is laid to dry.
  3. A vessel for holding holy water.
  4. (dated) A liquid measure and dry measure; especially, a liquid measure in Belgium and Holland, corresponding to the hectolitre of the metric system, which contains 22.01 imperial gallons, or 26.4 standard gallons in the United States.

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Noun capitalized: VATS

VATS (plural VATSs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery.

Forms of vats

pluralVATSs

Phrases with vats

Questions about vats

What is vats the plural of?
Vats is the plural of vat.
What part of speech is vats?
Vats is a noun.
What is the plural of vats?
The plural of vats is VATSs.

Words near vats in the dictionary

  1. Vatra Dornei
  2. Vatroslav
  3. vatrushka
  4. vatrushkas
  5. vatrushki
  6. vats
  7. Vatsal
  8. vatsful
  9. Vatsonga
  10. vatted
  11. Vattelian

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Adapted from Wiktionary: vats (page history and authors); VATS (page history and authors); vat (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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