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 (My-Otome), a fictional manga character
• Rad (journal), the oldest publication of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts
• Radian, a unit of angle
• Radical, the mathematical operator, is denoted Rad(n)
• FK Rad, a Serbian football club
• "Rad", a nickname of Tank ace Sydney Valpy Radley-Walters

Three letter acronym

• RAD Game Tools, a video game development tools provider
• Radiation assessment detector, a scientific instrument on board the Curiosity rover
• 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
• 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
• Rebuilding America's Defenses, the main report of PNAC
• Reflex anal dilation, a controversial diagnostic technique
• Reichsarbeitsdienst, the National Socialism-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 markers, 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, video game
• 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.

See also

• rad.