ARD

Ard, ARD, Ards or ARDS may refer to:

Ard

• Ard (surname) a surname of Scottish origin
• Ard (plough) or scratch-plough, a type of plough consisting of a simple spike dragged through the soil
• Ard, alternate name of Arad, Iran, a city in Fars Province
• Ard (biblical figure), a son of Benjamin in the Bible
• Ard., abbreviation in scientific literature for botanist Pietro Arduino
• Ard, a character in the 1981 film Heavy Metal

ARD

Organizations

• ARD (broadcaster), the German association of public broadcasters: the Arbeitsgemeinschaft der öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunkanstalten der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
  • Das Erste, primary television channel of the ARD, often called the same
  • ARD International Music Competition
• ARD (or AD), the Democratic Republican Alliance, a French conservative liberal party of the Third Republic: the Alliance Républicaine Démocratique
• Alliance for Restoration of Democracy, a Pakistani political movement that opposes President Pervez Musharraf
• Republican Alliance for Democracy, an opposition party in Djibouti (Alliance Républicaine pour le Développement)
• ARD, the Right Romania Alliance, a short-lived electoral alliance in Romania
• American Research and Development Corporation, the first venture capital firm
• Army Reconnaissance Detachment, a special forces unit of the Swiss Armed Forces

Other

• Acid rock drainage, the outflow of acidic water from mines
• Apple Remote Desktop, computer application
• Atmospheric Reentry Demonstrator, ESA spacecraft
• US Navy hull classification symbol for an auxiliary repair dry dock
• Ardmore station (Pennsylvania), Philadelphia, US, Amtrak code

• Ardgay railway station, Scotland, station code
• Acquired Rights Directive, EU employment law
• Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition, pre-trial intervention, Pennsylvania, US
• Antimicrobial Removal Device, Marion Laboratories product
• ARD, the IATA code for Alor Island Airport, Indonesia
• Acireductone dioxygenase (iron(II)-requiring), an enzyme

Ards

• Ards (territory), an ancient Irish district, county, and barony, County Down, Northern Ireland
• Ards Lower, a former barony in Northern Ireland
• Ards Upper, a former barony in Northern Ireland
• Ards Peninsula, Northern Ireland
• Newtownards, a town in Northern Ireland, nicknamed "Ards"
• Ards F.C., a Northern Irish football club from Newtownards
• Ards RFC, a Northern Irish rugby football club from Newtownards
• Ards (borough), an administrative district of Northern Ireland
• Ards (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency)
• Ards Forest Park, a nature reserve in County Donegal, Ireland

ARDS

• Acute respiratory distress syndrome
• Advanced Remote Display Station