Cad (disambiguation)

Cad or CAD may refer to:

In science and technology

• Cadmium, an element
• Cold air damming, a meteorological phenomenon that involves a high pressure system
• Collision-induced dissociation, also called collisionally activated dissociation, a fragmentation method used in mass spectrometry
• Computer-aided design, a wide range of computer-based tools that assist engineers, architects and other design professionals
• Computer-assisted dispatch, a method of dispatching taxicabs, couriers, field service technicians, or emergency services
• Caspase-activated DNase, a DNase involved in apoptosis
• Cell Adhesion axon guidance molecules that activate receptors expressed on neural growth cones

In medicine and biology

• Cervical artery dissection (disambiguation)
• Chronic actinic dermatitis
• Cold agglutinin disease
• Computer-aided diagnosis/Computer-assisted detection, in medicine, a combination of computer science and radiography used to support the diagnostic process
• Coronary artery disease, or coronary heart disease
• CAD (gene)

In finance and economics

• CAD, ISO 4217 currency code of the Canadian dollar
• Capital Adequacy Directive, a European directive that aims to establish uniform capital requirements for both banking firms and non-bank securities firms
• Current account deficit, in the balance of payments
• Cash against documents, a terms of payment
• Consumer Aggregate Demand, an economic indicator

In transportation

• Cadoxton railway station, serving the village of Cadoxton near Barry, Vale of Glamorgan
• Center axle disconnect
• Civil Aviation Department (Hong Kong), a department in the Hong Kong Government
• IATA airport code for Wexford County Airport, Cadillac, Michigan, United States
• Cadiz Railroad
• CAD (TransMilenio), a mass-transit station in Bogotá, Colombia

Other uses

• Cad or Rake (character), a man who seduces a young woman, often to her social or financial ruin
• Cad Coles (1886-1942), a Major League Baseball outfielder
• Central Ammunition Depot (disambiguation)
• Chicago Assyrian Dictionary, dictionary of the Akkadian language
• Cylindrical algebraic decomposition, in mathematics
• ISO 639 code for the Caddo language, a critically endangered language spoken in Oklahoma
• Ctrl+Alt+Del (webcomic), an American webcomic often abbreviated and referred to as CAD
• Canadian Air Defense forces

See also

• CADS (disambiguation)