Rod

Rod, Ród, Rőd, Rød, Röd, ROD, or R.O.D. may refer to:

Devices

Birch rod, made out of twigs from birch or other trees for corporal punishment
Connecting rod, main, coupling, or side rod, in a reciprocating engine
Control rod, used to control the rate of fission in a nuclear reactor
Divining rod, two rods believed by some to find water in a practice known as dowsing
Fishing rod, a tool used to catch fish, like a long pole with a hook on the end
Lightning rod, a conductor on top of a building to protect the building in the event of lightning by taking the charge harmlessly to earth
Measuring rod, a kind of ruler
Switch (corporal punishment), a piece of wood as used as a staff or for corporal punishment, or a bundle of such switches
Truss rod, a steel part inside a guitar neck used for its tension adjustment

Read or Die, a Japanese anime and manga
- Read or Die (OVA), an original video animation based on the manga
- Read or Dream, a manga set in the Read or Die universe
- R.O.D the TV, a 26-episode anime series
Röd, a 2009 album by Swedish band Kent
Rod Norman, a character in the soap opera EastEnders
Rod (Avenue Q), a character in the stage musical Avenue Q
"R.O.D.", a 2013 song by Korean rapper G-Dragon featured on his second studio album Coup D'Etat

Ród, a village in Tilişca Commune, Sibiu County, Romania
Rød (disambiguation), several populated places in Norway
Rőd, Aiton, from the Hungarian name for Rediu, a village in Aiton Commune, Cluj County, Romania
Rod, California, a former settlement in Kern County
Rod River, a tributary of the Apold River in Romania

Cuisenaire rods, to teach children arithmetics
Rod (geometry), a three-dimensional, solid (filled) cylinder
Rod-shaped bacterium, a shape of bacteria such as E. coli
Rod (optics), tricks of light in cameras believed by some to be alien life
Rod (unit), an Imperial unit of length, also known as the pole or perch
Rod cell, a cell found in the retina that is sensitive to light/dark (black/white)
Real-time outbreak and disease surveillance (RODS)
rod, ISO 639-3 code for the Rogo language of Nigeria
Rate of descent (RoD), a measurement in aviation.

Railway Operating Division, a division of the British Army's Royal Engineers
Record of Decision, a formal decision document issued by the United States government
Rod (god), a Slavic creator god
Rods (tarot suit)
Roughly Obsess and Destroy, a professional wrestling stable