Card

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The term card (from Greek χάρτης - chartēs, "paper, papyrus") primarily refers to cardboard or a piece of this. More generally, the term can refer to a small flat object.

Surnames:

• Andrew Card, politician, Secretary of Transportation under George H.W. Bush and White House Chief of Staff under George W. Bush
• Orson Scott Card, science fiction author
• David Card, Canadian labour economist and professor at the University of California, Berkeley
• Michael Card, American Christian singer-songwriter, author, and radio host

Acronyms:

• The CARDS programme (Community Assistance for Reconstruction Development and Stabilisation), the European Union's main financial assistance instrument to the Western Balkans
• Caspase recruitment domains, or CARD domains, interaction motifs found in a wide array of proteins
• Wolfson Centre for Age-Related Diseases
• CARD, the Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility, and Disclosure Act of 2009 signed into law in 2009 by President Obama

Other:

• Greeting cards
• Playing cards
• Card games
• card, in mathematical notation, a function that returns the cardinality of a set
• Card (sports), the lineup of the matches in an event
• Apple IIe Card, a compatibility card
• A tool for carding

The Card may refer to:

• The Card, Arnold Bennett's 1911 novel and the 1952 film derived from it
  • The Card (musical), based on the novel
• "The Card", an episode of SpongeBob SquarePants (season 6)

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