PAD
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PAD written in all-caps, such as in an acronym, may refer to:
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Media and entertainment
- Peter Allen David, American writer
- Poker After Dark, a poker television show which features sit and gos and cash games
- Puzzle & Dragons, a 2012 Japanese mobile game developed by GungHo Online Entertainment
Organizations
- Pädagogischer Austauschdienst, a German scholastic exchange service
- Pakistan Association of the Deaf, a Pakistani organisation representing deaf people
- Pakistan Association Dubai, a Pakistani expatriate organisation
- People's Action for Development, an Indian NGO
- People's Alliance for Democracy, a political group in Thailand
- Phi Alpha Delta, a fraternity
- Propaganda and Agitation Department of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea
Science and technology
=Computing=
- Packet Assembler/Disassembler, a communications device
- PAD, a C1 control code used for padding
- Portable Application Description, a document format
- Program-associated data, a type of broadcast information
=Medicine and psychology=
- PAD emotional state model, a psychological model based on pleasure, arousal and dominance
- Peripheral artery disease, a vascular disease that causes ulcers (wounds) to develop on the legs and feet
- Peroral anti-diabetics, a group of medications to treat diabetes mellitus
- Pre-Operative Autologous Donation, when a patient's own blood is taken for possible use during surgery
- Principled Assessment Design, a class of approaches to designing and developing educational, psychological, and professional licensure/certification exams.
=Other technologies=
- Prithvi Air Defence, a missile
Transport
- PAD, London Paddington station's station code
- PAD, Paderborn Lippstadt Airport's IATA code
Other uses
- Pontoon Assembly Detachment of the U.S. Navy Seabees
- Pre-Authorized Debit or direct debit, a financial transaction in which one withdraws funds from another person's account