Grad or grads may refer to:

Places

Grad (toponymy) Grad () is an Proto-Slavic, Old Slavic word meaning "town", "city", "castle" or "fortified settlement". Initially present in all related languages as ''Gord (archaeology), gord'', it can still be found as ''grad'', ''gradić'', ''horod'' or Gorod ...

(Cyrillic: Град) is a Slavic word meaning "town", "city", "castle" or "fortified settlement" that appears in numerous Slavic toponyms ;Specific places named Grad: * Grad (Dubrovnik) - colloquial name for Grad (Ragusa) and present-day Dubrovnik by its inhabitants, neighboring and hinterlands population. * Grad, Visoko, Bosnia and Herzegovina * Grad, Delčevo, North Macedonia * Grąd, Podlaskie Voivodeship, Poland * Grąd, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland * Grad, Cerklje na Gorenjskem, Slovenia * Municipality of Grad, Slovenia ** Grad, Grad, a village, the seat of the municipality * Grad, Split, an administrative division of

Split, Croatia Split (, ), historically known as Spalato (; ; see #Name, other names), is the List of cities and towns in Croatia, second-largest city of Croatia after the capital Zagreb, the largest city in Dalmatia and the largest city on the Croatian coast ...

People

* Grad (surname)

Arts, entertainment, and media

* ''Grad'' (EP), a Cactus Jack EP * Grad, the dragon in ''

Ral Grad is a Japanese manga series written by Tsuneo Takano and illustrated by Takeshi Obata. It is loosely based on the '' Blue Dragon'' video game. The story revolves around the journey of a young man named Ral from the kingdom of Sphaelite. Ral h ...

Education

*Grad, short for a graduate, one who has successfully completed an education program

Geometry and measurement

Gradian In trigonometry, the gradianalso known as the gon (), grad, or gradeis a unit of measurement of an angle, defined as one-hundredth of the right angle; in other words, 100 gradians is equal to 90 degrees. It is equivalent to of a turn, of a ...

, a unit of angular measurement *

Gradient In vector calculus, the gradient of a scalar-valued differentiable function f of several variables is the vector field (or vector-valued function) \nabla f whose value at a point p gives the direction and the rate of fastest increase. The g ...

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 the syntonic comma (81:80) and the Pythagorean comma which is slightly larger. It equals or ≈ 1.00113, which corresponds to 1.9537 cents (). It may also ...

, which it is also called * abbreviation of

gigaradian The radian, denoted by the symbol rad, is the unit of angle in the International System of Units (SI) and is the standard unit of angular measure used in many areas of mathematics. It is defined such that one radian is the angle subtended at ...

(Grad), a unit of angle * abbreviation of

gigarad The rad is a unit of absorbed radiation dose, defined as 1 rad = 0.01 Gy = 0.01 J/kg. It was originally defined in CGS units in 1953 as the dose causing 100 ergs of energy to be absorbed by one gram of matter. The material absorbing the radiat ...

(Grad), a unit of radiation dose

Other uses

BM-21 Grad The BM-21 "Grad" () 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 use in March 1969 during the Sino-S ...

, a Soviet multiple-launch rocket system and an associated series of artillery rockets *

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 *

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 ...