Pad

Pad or PAD may refer to:

• Writing pad, a book of paper
• Sanitary pad, a device worn by a woman during menstruation
• Pad (music), a type of synthesized sound
• Part of a mammal's paw

Transportation

• Launch pad, an area where spacecraft lifts off
• Helicopter landing pad
• London Paddington station, station code PAD
• Paderborn Lippstadt Airport, IATA code PAD

Sports gear

• Pads, specialized equipment used in baseball, cricket, and hockey
• Elbow pads
• Knee pads
• Shoulder pads

Computing and electronics

• Touchpad
• ThinkPad, a laptop brand first designed and produced by IBM, but now owned by Lenovo
• iPad, a tablet computer from Apple
• Graphics pad, a computer input device
• Control pad, a type of game controller
• Trigger pad, an electronic sensor on a drum
• Packet Assembler/Disassembler, a communications device
• Portable Application Description, a document format
• PAD, a control character in the C1 control code set
• Components of an attenuator, an electronic device
• Contact pads, designated surface areas for electrical contacts
• Pulsed Amperometric Detection

Other uses

• PAD emotional state model, psychological model based on Pleasure, Arousal and Dominance
• People's Alliance for Democracy, a Thailand political group
• People's Action for Development, an Indian NGO
• Peripheral artery disease
• Peter Allen David, American writer
• Phi Alpha Delta, a fraternity
• Poker After Dark, a television series
• Pre-Authorized Debit
• Pre-Operative Autologous Donation, when a patient's own blood is taken for possible use during surgery
• Prithvi Air Defence, a missile
• Program-associated data, a type of broadcast information
• Punjab Archaeology Department
• Pád, the Hungarian name for Spini village, Turdaş Commune, Hunedoara County, Romania
• Part of the mantra Om mani padme hum
• Drill floor, also called a drilling pad or just a pad.

See also

• Padding