rad

1 a unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material

2 the unit of plane angle adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites; equal to the angle at the center of a circle subtended by an arc equal in length to the radius (approximately 57.295 degrees) [syn: radian]

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English

Pronunciation

• a UK /ɹæd/, /r

• Rad (comics), a villainous character in AC Comics's Femforce
• Rad (film), a 1986 release about a young BMX rider
• Rad (Transformers), several fictional characters in the Transformers toy line
• Rad (unit), a largely obsolete unit of absorbed radiation dose
• Rad (village), in Trebišov District, Slovakia
• Rad, a character in My-Otome
• Radian, a unit of angle
• Radiator
• Radical, English slang for cool
• FK Rad, a Serbian football club
• RaD Man, a computer artist and historian

Three letter acronym

• RAD Data Communications, developer and manufacturer of network access equipment
• RAD Game Tools, a video game development tools provider
• Radley railway station, England; National Rail station code RAD
• Rapid-access disc, a high-speed disk drive
• Rapid application development, an iterative application development methodology derived from Information Engineering
• Rational Application Developer, an integrated development environment (IDE) made by IBM's Rational Software division
• Reactive Airway Disease, a.k.a. Reactive Airways Dysfunction Syndrome (RADS)
• Reactive attachment disorder, an emotional disorder
• Reflex anal dilatation, a controversial diagnostic technique
• Reichsarbeitsdienst, the World War II-era German National Labor Service
• Researchers Alliance for Development, a World Bank multidisciplinary network of researchers
• Right Axis Deviation, a heart condition where the electrical conduction of the heart is beyond normal limits
• Rite Aid, NYSE stock symbol RAD
• Robot Alchemic Drive, a video game for the PlayStation 2
• Rose Ann Dimalanta, an artist, singer and keyboardist
• Royal Academy of Dance, a London-based International dance examination board specialising in Classical Ballet
• Relative Abundance Distribution, a measure of biodiversity