RAD
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RAD or Rad may refer to:
People
- Rad Hourani, Canadian fashion designer and artist of Jordanian descent
- Rad Radford (1971–1998), former American professional wrestler
- "Rad", nickname of Sydney Valpy Radley-Walters (1920–2015), Canadian Army officer, top western Allied tank ace of the Second World War
Arts and entertainment
- Rad (film), a 1986 release about a young BMX rider
- Rad (comics), a villain in AC Comics's "Femforce"
- Bradley "Rad" White, a character in the Transformers Unicron Trilogy, voiced by Kirby Morrow
- Rad (My-Otome), a fictional manga character
- Rad (video game), a roguelike video game
Three-letter acronym
- RAD Game Tools, a video game development tools provider
- Radiation assessment detector, a scientific instrument on board the Curiosity rover
- Rapid application development, of software
- Rational Application Developer, an IBM IDE
- Reactive attachment disorder, an emotional disorder
- Reflex anal dilation, a controversial diagnostic technique
- Allegheny Regional Asset District, Pennsylvania, United States
- Reich Labour Service (Reichsarbeitsdienst; RAD), a major World War II German organization
- Relative abundance distribution, a measure of biodiversity
- Rental Assistance Demonstration, an American federal public housing program
- Researchers Alliance for Development, a World Bank multidisciplinary network of researchers
- Restriction site associated DNA markers, a genetic mapping technique
- Rezvani Automotive Designs, American performance car manufacturer
- Right axis deviation, a heart condition
- Royal Academy of Dance, UK
- Royal Association for Deaf people, British charity
- Rules for Archival Description, the Canadian archival descriptive standard
Other uses
- Rad (unit), a unit of absorbed radiation dose, largely used in the United States
- Rad (village), in Trebišov District, Slovakia
- RAD Data Communications, a manufacturer of communications access solutions
- Rad (journal), the oldest publication of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts
- Rad (rune) (ᚱ), a rune of the Anglo-Saxon fuþorc and continuation of the Elder Fuþark raido
- Radian, a unit of angle
- Radical of an integer, the mathematical operator, is denoted Rad(n)
- FK Rad, a Serbian football club
- Rite Aid, NYSE stock symbol RAD
- Radley railway station, England; National Rail station code RAD
- .rad scene-description file format, for Radiance (software)