RAD

Rad may mean:

• Rad (comics), a villainous character in AC Comics's "Femforce"
• Rad (film), a 1986 release about a young BMX rider
• Rad (Transformers), several fictional characters in the Transformers toy line
• Rad (unit), a unit of absorbed radiation dose, largely used in the United States
• Rad (village), in Trebišov District, Slovakia
• Rad, a character in My-Otome
• Radian, a unit of angle
• Radiator
• American slang for cool
• Really Awesome Dude in Dude, Where's My Car?
• Radical, the mathematical operator, is denoted Rad(n)
• FK Rad, a Serbian football club
• RaD Man, a computer artist and historian
• "Rad", a nickname of tanker ace Sydney Valpy Radley-Walters

Three letter acronym

• RAD Game Tools, a video game development tools provider
• Radley railway station, England; National Rail station code RAD
• Rapid-access disc, a high-speed disk drive
• Rapid application development, an iterative application development methodology derived from Information Engineering
• Ramstein airshow disaster, the air-show disaster in West Germany
• Rational Application Developer, an integrated development environment (IDE) made by IBM's Rational Software division
• Reactive Airway Disease, a.k.a. Reactive Airways Dysfunction Syndrome (RADS)
• Reactive attachment disorder, an emotional disorder
• Reflex anal dilatation, a controversial diagnostic technique
• Reichsarbeitsdienst, the Third Reich-era German National Labor Service
• Relative abundance distribution, a measure of biodiversity
• Researchers Alliance for Development, a World Bank multidisciplinary network of researchers
• Restriction-site Associated DNA marker, a genetic mapping technique
• Responsible Appliance Disposal, a voluntary partnership program that help protect the ozone layer and reduce emissions of greenhouse gases.
• Right Angle Drill, a drill with the chuck mounted 90 degrees (perpendicular) to the main body for use in tight spaces
• Right Axis Deviation, a heart condition where the electrical conduction of the heart is beyond normal limits
• Rite Aid, NYSE stock symbol RAD
• Robot Alchemic Drive, a video game for the PlayStation 2
• Royal Academy of Dance, a London-based International dance examination board specialising in Classical Ballet
• Royal Association for Deaf people, British charity
• Rules for Archival Description, a ruleset for the description of archives, published by the Canadian Council of Archives.

Rad.

• rad., an American singer-songwriter and keyboardist
• Radical Party (France), a liberal and centrist political party in France