RAD or Rad may refer to:

People

* Robert Anthony

Rad Dougall Robert Anthony Dougall (born 7 September 1951) is a South African former racing driver. Racing record Complete European Formula Two Championship results (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap) C ...

(born 1951), South African former racing driver *

Rad Hourani Rad Hourani (born 1982) is a Canadian fashion designer and artist known for his neutral, genderless creations. Career He created his unisex brand ''Rad Hourani'' in 2007 along with a unisex gender-neutral ready-to-wear collection. Two years ...

, Canadian fashion designer and artist * Nickname of Leonardus Rad Kortenhorst (1886–1963), Dutch politician * Radley

Rad Martinez Radley Martinez (born March 12, 1978) is retired American mixed martial artist. He was signed with Bellator Fighting Championships, where he competed in their featherweight division. Amateur Wrestling Career Martinez was a standout wrestler in ...

(born 1978), American retired mixed martial artist * "Rad", nickname of

Sydney Valpy Radley-Walters Sydney Valpy Radley-Walters CMM, DSO, MC, CD, nicknamed "Rad" (January 11, 1920 – April 21, 2015), was a tank commander in the Canadian Army. Credited with 18 German tanks and many other armoured vehicles, he was the leading Western Allie ...

(1920–2015), Canadian Army officer, top western Allied tank ace of the Second World War *

Rad Radford Louis Mucciolo Jr. (February 10, 1971 – February 15, 1998) was an American professional wrestler. He performed in Mexico under the ring name Madonna's Boyfriend, for the World Wrestling Federation as Rad Radford, and in Extreme Championship ...

, a ring name of American former professional wrestler Louis Mucciolo Jr. (1971–1998) *

Jahon Rad Jahon Rad ( fa, جیحون راد; born June 13, 2001) is an American soccer player who plays for Sporting Kansas City II in the USL Championship via the Sporting Kansas City Academy. Career Joining the Sporting Kansas City Academy in 2016 al ...

(born 2001), American soccer player, twin brother of Kaveh Rad *

Jovana Rad Jovana Rad (Serbian Cyrillic: Јована Рад; born May 8, 1987) is a Serbian professional basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compe ...

(born 1987), Serbian basketball player * Kaveh Rad (born 2001), American soccer player, twin brother of Jahon Rad * Taras Rad (born 1999), Ukrainian Paralympic cross-country skier and biathlete

Arts and entertainment

* ''Rad'' (film), a 1986 release about a young BMX rider *

Rad (comics) Rad is a comic book supervillain in the Femforce comic published by AC Comics. Rad possesses superhuman strength, together with the ability to fly (although only over short distances). Her true identity was Jennifer Burke, daughter of the origina ...

, a villain in AC Comics's "Femforce" *

Rad Spencer , also known as Nathan Spencer in certain games, is a fictional character created by Capcom and the protagonist of the ''Bionic Commando'' series. Nathan Spencer is a prototype bionics-enhanced soldier who is mainly noted by Video game journalism, ...

, protagonist of the Bionic Commando video game series * Bradley "Rad" White, a character in the ''Transformers''

Unicron Trilogy Launched in 1984, the Transformers toyline by Takara and Hasbro was promoted through both a comic book by Marvel Comics and an animated series produced by Sunbow Productions and Marvel Productions with Toei Animation. Although the comic outlived t ...

, voiced by Kirby Morrow * Rad (My-Otome), a fictional manga character * ''Rad'' (video game), a roguelike video game

Acronym

* RAD Game Tools, a video game development tools provider *

Radiation assessment detector The Radiation Assessment Detector (RAD) is an instrument mounted on the Mars Science Laboratory ''Curiosity'' rover. It was the first of ten instruments to be turned on during the mission. Purpose The first role of RAD was to characterize the b ...

, a scientific instrument on board the ''Curiosity'' rover *

Rapid application development Rapid application development (RAD), also called rapid application building (RAB), is both a general term for adaptive software development approaches, and the name for James Martin's method of rapid development. In general, RAD approaches to ...

, of software *

Rational Application Developer Rational Machines is an enterprise founded by Paul Levy and Mike Devlin in 1981 to provide tools to expand the use of modern software engineering practices, particularly explicit modular architecture and iterative development. It changed its n ...

, an IBM IDE *

Reactive attachment disorder Reactive attachment disorder (RAD) is described in clinical literature as a severe and relatively uncommon disorder that can affect children, although these issues do occasionally persist into adulthood.DSM-IV-TR (2000) American Psychiatric Ass ...

, an emotional disorder *

Reflex anal dilation Reflex anal dilation (RAD) is the reflexive dilation of the human anus to a diameter greater than two centimeters in response to the parting of the buttocks or anal stimulation, such as brushing with a medical instrument. RAD was theorized to be a ...

, a controversial diagnostic technique *

Allegheny Regional Asset District The Allegheny Regional Asset District (RAD) is a special purpose unit of local government in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. Its physical boundaries are the same as those of Allegheny County, and include the City of Pittsburgh. History The dist ...

, Pennsylvania, United States *

Reich Labour Service The Reich Labour Service (''Reichsarbeitsdienst''; RAD) was a major organisation established in Nazi Germany as an agency to help mitigate the effects of unemployment on the German economy, militarise the workforce and indoctrinate it with Naz ...

(''Reichsarbeitsdienst''; RAD), a major World War II German organization *

Relative abundance distribution In the field of ecology, the relative abundance distribution (RAD) or species abundance distribution describes the relationship between the number of species observed in a field study as a function of their observed abundance. The graphs obtained ...

, a measure of biodiversity *

Rental Assistance Demonstration The Rental Assistance Demonstration is a federal housing program that was enacted as part of the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2012, and is administered by thU.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development(HUD). Broadly, the ...

, an American federal public housing program *

Researchers Alliance for Development Researchers Alliance for Development (RAD) is a World Bank supported action-oriented and multidisciplinary network of researchers. Recognizing the engagement of academia in the global intellectual debate on development cooperation, the RAD aims to s ...

, a World Bank multidisciplinary network of researchers *

Restriction site associated DNA markers Restriction site associated DNA (RAD) markers are a type of genetic marker which are useful for association mapping, QTL-mapping, population genetics, ecological genetics and evolutionary genetics. The use of RAD markers for genetic mapping is of ...

, a genetic mapping technique *

Rezvani Automotive Designs Rezvani Motors is an American automotive designer and manufacturer of high-performance sports cars based in Irvine, California. Rezvani Motors was founded by Iranian-American entrepreneur Ferris Rezvani, one of the designers of the Vencer Sarthe w ...

, American performance car manufacturer *

Right axis deviation The electrical axis of the heart is the net direction in which the wave of depolarization travels. It is measured using an electrocardiogram (ECG). Normally, this begins at the sinoatrial node (SA node); from here the wave of depolarisation travel ...

, a heart condition * ''

Robot Alchemic Drive ''Robot Alchemic Drive'', also known as ''R.A.D.'', and known in Japan as is a PlayStation 2 video game developed by Sandlot and published by Enix. It was released in Japan and North America. In the game the player controls a giant robot call ...

'', a video game *

Royal Academy of Dance "Health and happiness" , predecessor = , successor = , formation = 1920 , extinction = , type = NGO , status = Registered charity , purpose = Examination board – dance education and training , headquarters = 36 Battersea SquareSW11 ...

, UK *

Royal Association for Deaf people The Royal Association for Deaf people (RAD) is a British charitable organisation whose mission is to promote the welfare and interests of Deaf people. It is a Deaf-led organisation. Using uppercase letter "D" in deaf refers to the group of deaf p ...

, British charity *

Rules for Archival Description The Rules for Archival Description (RAD) is the Canadian archival descriptive standard. It provides a set of rules based on traditional archival principles, whose purpose is to provide a consistent and commonly shared descriptive foundation for des ...

, the Canadian archival descriptive standard

Other uses

Rad (unit) 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 ...

, a unit of absorbed radiation dose, largely used in the United States * Rád, a village in Pest county, Hungary * Rad (village), in Trebišov District, Slovakia *

RAD Data Communications RAD (the registered trademark of RAD Data Communications Ltd.) is a privately held corporation, headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel that designs and manufacturers specialized networking equipment. RAD is a member of the $1.3 billion RAD Group of c ...

, a manufacturer of communications access solutions *

Rad Aviation Rad Aviation was a British aircraft manufacturer based in Kidlington. The company was formed by John Radford and specialized in the design and manufacture of paramotors in the form of ready-to-fly aircraft for the European microlight rules.Be ...

, a defunct British microlight aircraft manufacturer * ''Rad'' (journal), the oldest publication of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts * Rad (rune) (ᚱ), a rune of the Anglo-Saxon fuþorc and continuation of the Elder Fuþark raido * rad, symbol for

radian 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. The unit was formerly an SI supplementary unit (before tha ...

, a unit of angle *

Radical of an integer In number theory, the radical of a positive integer ''n'' is defined as the product of the distinct prime numbers dividing ''n''. Each prime factor of ''n'' occurs exactly once as a factor of this product: \displaystyle\mathrm(n)=\prod_p The radic ...

, the mathematical operator, denoted rad(''n'') *

Radnorshire , HQ = Presteigne , Government = Radnorshire County Council (1889–1974) Radnorshire District Council (1974–1996) , Origin = , Status = historic county, administrative county , Start ...

, historic county in Wales, Chapman code * FK Rad, a Serbian football club *

Rite Aid Rite Aid Corporation is an American drugstore chain based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1962 in Scranton, Pennsylvania, by Alex Grass under the name Thrift D Discount Center. The company ranked No. 148 in the Fortune 500 li ...

, New York Stock Exchange stock symbol RAD *

Radley railway station Radley railway station serves the villages of Radley and Lower Radley and the town of Abingdon, Oxfordshire, Abingdon, in Oxfordshire, England. It is on the Cherwell Valley Line between and , measured from . History The station was formerly ...

, England; National Rail station code RAD * .rad scene-description file format, for

Radiance (software) Radiance is a suite of tools for performing ''lighting simulation'' originally written by Greg Ward. It includes a renderer as well as many other tools for measuring the simulated light levels. It uses ray tracing to perform all lighting calculat ...

* Short for

radiator Radiators are heat exchangers used to transfer thermal energy from one medium to another for the purpose of cooling and heating. The majority of radiators are constructed to function in cars, buildings, and electronics. A radiator is always a ...

, a heating device

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