Cad (disambiguation)

CAD is a commonly used acronym for computer-aided design.

CAD or Cad may also refer to:

Biology and medicine

• CAD (gene), an enzyme-encoding gene
• Caspase-activated DNase, a protein encoded by the DFFB gene in humans
• Coronary artery disease, a group of cardiovascular diseases
• Cold agglutinin disease, an autoimmune disease that makes the suffering predisposed to autoimmune hemolytic anemia
• Computer-aided diagnosis, software for assisting physicians in the interpretation of medical images

Chemistry

• Charged aerosol detector, used to measure the amount of chemicals in a sample
• Collisionally activated dissociation, a technique in mass spectrometry

Economics

• Canadian dollar, by currency code CAD
• Capital Adequacy Directives CAD1 and CAD2, EU directives on capital requirements

Science and technology

• Cold-air damming, a meteorological phenomenon
• Computer-aided design
• Computer-aided dispatch, software used to dispatch and track vehicles or personnel
• Control-alt-delete

Transportation

• CAD (TransMilenio), a mass-transit station in Bogotá, Colombia
• Center axle disconnect, a type of automotive drivetrain
• Civil Aviation Department (Hong Kong), also called CAD
• CAD, the IATA code for Wexford County Airport in Michigan, United States
• CAD, the station code for Cadoxton railway station in Wales

Other uses

• Cad (character), a man who is aware of gentlemanly codes, but does not live up to them
• Cad Coles (1886–1942), American baseball player
• Cad (river), a river in Romania
• Cad Bane, a character in the Star Wars franchise
• Cad Brook, a tributary of the River Isle in Britain
• Central Ammunition Depot (disambiguation), several depots nicknamed "CAD"
• Chicago Assyrian Dictionary, a project to compile a dictionary of the Akkadian language
• Cylindrical algebraic decomposition, a notion and an algorithm in computer algebra and real algebraic geometry
• cad, the ISO 639 code for the Caddo language of the Caddo Nation of Oklahoma
• CAD, abbreviation for the American Ctrl+Alt+Del (webcomic)
• Civil Affairs Division, of the US Army
• cad., part of a Turkish address standing for caddesi (road)

See also

• CADS (disambiguation)
• CADD (disambiguation)
• CAAD, abbreviation for Computer-aided architectural design
• caid (sport), pronounced "cad"