Grad or grads may refer to:
Places
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Grad (toponymy)
Grad () is an Old Slavic word meaning "town", "city", "castle" or "fortified settlement". Initially present in all related languages as '' gord'', it can still be found as ''grad'', ''gradić'', '' horod'' or ''gorod'' in many placenames today.
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(Cyrillic: Град) is a Slavic word meaning "town", "city", "castle" or "fortified settlement" that appears in numerous Slavic toponyms
;Specific places named Grad:
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Grad, Visoko, Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Grad, Delčevo, North Macedonia
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Grąd, Podlaskie Voivodeship, Poland
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Grąd, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland
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Grad, Cerklje na Gorenjskem, Slovenia
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Municipality of Grad, Slovenia
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Grad, Grad, a village, the seat of the municipality
People
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Grad (surname)
Arts, entertainment, and media
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''Grad'' (EP), a Cactus Jack EP
* Grad, the dragon in ''
Ral Grad''
Education
*Grad, short for a
graduate, one who has graduated from an education program, also known as an alumnus
*Grad school, short for
graduate school
Postgraduate or graduate education refers to academic or professional degrees, certificates, diplomas, or other qualifications pursued by post-secondary students who have earned an undergraduate (bachelor's) degree.
The organization and st ...
Geometry and measurement
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Gradian
In trigonometry, the gradian, also known as the gon (from grc, γωνία, gōnía, angle), grad, or grade, is a unit of measurement of an angle, defined as one hundredth of the right angle; in other words, there are 100 gradians in 90 degr ...
, a unit of angular measurement
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Gradient
In vector calculus, the gradient of a scalar-valued differentiable function of several variables is the vector field (or vector-valued function) \nabla f whose value at a point p is the "direction and rate of fastest increase". If the gr ...
of a scalar field, a differential operator in mathematics
* Grad, a small unit in tuning very close to the
schisma
In music, the schisma (also spelled ''skhisma'') is the interval between a Pythagorean comma (531441:524288) and a syntonic comma (81:80) and equals or 32805:32768 = 1.00113, which is 1.9537 cents (). It may also be defined as:
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, which it is also called
Other uses
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BM-21 Grad
The BM-21 "Grad" (russian: БМ-21 "Град", lit= hail) is a self-propelled 122 mm multiple rocket launcher designed in the Soviet Union. The system and the M-21OF rocket were first developed in the early 1960s, and saw their first combat ...
, a Soviet multiple-launch rocket system and an associated series of artillery rockets
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Grad Associates
Grad Associates formerly Grad Partnership and Frank Grad & Sons, was an architectural firm based in Newark, New Jersey. Founded in 1906 by Frank Grad (1882–1968), the company was later run by his sons, Bernard (d. August 4, 2000) and Howard ( ...
, an architectural firm based in Newark, New Jersey
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GrADS
The Grid Analysis and Display System (GrADS) is an interactive desktop tool that is used for easy access, manipulation, and visualization of earth science data. The format of the data may be either binary, GRIB, NetCDF, or HDF-SDS (Scientific D ...
, a free software for geophysical data visualization
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