Card or The Card may refer to:

Common uses

Plastic card Plastic cards usually serve as identity documents, thus providing authentication. In combination with other assets that complement the data stored on the card, like Personal identification number, PIN numbers, they also serve authorization purpose ...

s of various types: **

Bank card A bank card is typically a plastic card issued by a bank to its clients that performs one or more of a number of services that relate to giving the client access to a bank account. Physically, a bank card will usually have the client's name, th ...

** Credit card **

Debit card A debit card, also known as a check card or bank card, is a payment card that can be used in place of cash to make purchases. The card usually consists of the bank's name, a card number, the cardholder's name, and an expiration date, on either ...

Payment card Payment cards are part of a payment system issued by financial institutions, such as a bank, to a customer that enables its owner (the cardholder) to access the funds in the customer's designated bank accounts, or through a credit account and ...

Playing card A playing card is a piece of specially prepared card stock, heavy paper, thin cardboard, plastic-coated paper, cotton-paper blend, or thin plastic that is marked with distinguishing motifs. Often the front (face) and back of each card has a f ...

, used in games *

Printed circuit board A printed circuit board (PCB), also called printed wiring board (PWB), is a Lamination, laminated sandwich structure of electrical conduction, conductive and Insulator (electricity), insulating layers, each with a pattern of traces, planes ...

, or card * Greeting card, given on special occasions

Arts and entertainment

* '' The Card'', a 1911 novel by Arnold Bennett ** ''The Card'' (1922 film), based on the novel ** ''The Card'' (1952 film), based on the novel ** ''The Card'' (musical), 1973, based on the novel * ''The Card'', a 2012 novel by Graham Rawle * "The Card" (''The Twilight Zone''), a TV episode * "The Card", an episode of ''SpongeBob SquarePants'' (season 6)

Businesses and organisations

* American Committee for Devastated France (''Comité Américain pour les Régions Dévastées de France''), a group of American women in France after * Campaign Against Racial Discrimination, a British organization, founded in 1964–67 *

Center for Autism and Related Disorders The Center for Autism and Related Disorders, Inc. (CARD) is a business that administers applied behavior analysis (ABA) to autistic people. History CARD was founded in 1990 by Doreen Granpeesheh, a former graduate student of Ole Ivar Løvaas, th ...

, an American applied behavior analysis provider * Wolfson Centre for Age-Related Diseases, at Guy's Hospital, London, England

Science and technology

* Card, a device for

carding In Textile manufacturing, textile production, carding is a mechanical process that disentangles, cleans and intermixes fibres to produce a continuous web or sliver (textiles), sliver suitable for subsequent processing. This is achieved by passi ...

, the cleaning and aligning of fibers * CARD (domain), caspase recruitment domain in proteins *

Collegiate Aerial Robotics Demonstration The Collegiate Aerial Robotics Demonstration (CARD) is a defunct robotics competition for college and university students inspired by FIRST. The inaugural event was held at the 2011 FIRST Championship in St. Louis, Missouri. History The possi ...

, an American robotics competition *

Comprehensive Antibiotic Resistance Database The Comprehensive Antibiotic Resistance Database (CARD) is a biological database that collects and organizes reference information on antimicrobial resistance genes, proteins and phenotypes. The database covers all types of drug classes and resist ...

, a biological database *

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, a mathematical function that returns the

cardinality The thumb is the first digit of the hand, next to the index finger. When a person is standing in the medical anatomical position (where the palm is facing to the front), the thumb is the outermost digit. The Medical Latin English noun for thum ...

of a set *

Punched card A punched card (also punch card or punched-card) is a stiff paper-based medium used to store digital information via the presence or absence of holes in predefined positions. Developed over the 18th to 20th centuries, punched cards were widel ...

, also known as EAM card and Holerith card, an early input medium for accounting machines and computers

Sport

Card (sports) In sports, a card lists the matches taking place in a title match combat-sport event. Cards include a main event match and the undercard listing the rest of the matches. The undercard may be divided into a midcard and a lower card, according to ...

, list of the matches taking place in a title match combat-sport event *

Arizona Cardinals The Arizona Cardinals are a professional American football team based in the Phoenix metropolitan area. The Cardinals compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the National Football Conference (NFC) NFC West, West division. The ...

, an American football team nicknamed the "Cards" * St. Louis Cardinals, an American baseball team nicknamed the "Cards" *

Louisville Cardinals The Louisville Cardinals (also known as the Cards) are the NCAA athletic teams representing the University of Louisville. The Cardinals teams play in the Atlantic Coast Conference, beginning in the 2014 season. While playing in the Big East Co ...

, the sports teams of the University of Louisville, nicknamed the "Cards" * Woking F.C., an association football club, based in Surrey, England, nicknamed the "Cards"

Other uses

Card (surname) Card is an English surname. Persons Notable people with the surname include: *Andrew Card (born 1947), American politician * Charles Ora Card (1839–1906), American Mormon missionary and founder of Cardston, Alberta *David Card (born 1956), Ca ...

, including a list of people with the name *

Community Assistance for Reconstruction, Development, and Stabilisation {{Redirect, CARDS, other uses, Cards (disambiguation){{!Cards The CARDS programme, of Community Assistance for Reconstruction, Development and Stabilisation, is the EU's main instrument of financial assistance to the Western Balkans, covering spec ...