AAD may refer to:

Organizations

  • Ad Altare Dei, a Boy Scouts of America award
  • Advanced Automotive Design, a South African car manufacturer
  • AAD Education, Health and Sports (formerly, Athletes Against Drugs), an organization founded by Stedman Graham
  • American Academy of Dermatology
  • Australian Antarctic Division, which manages Australia's four Antarctic/sub-Antarctic stations, as well as Heard Island

Science and technology

Aviation

  • Advanced Air defence, an anti-ballistic missile in the Indian Ballistic Missile Defence Programme
  • Africa Aerospace and Defence Expo, a biennial trade show in South Africa
  • Automatic activation device, a fail-safe device often used in a parachute pack
  • IATA airport code for Adado Airport in Galguduud Region, Somalia

Computing

  • aad, or "ASCII Adjust before Division", one of the Intel BCD opcodes <!--initial letter to uppercase-->
  • Additional authenticated data passed to an "Authenticated Encryption with Associated Data" (AEAD) block cipher mode of operation
  • Microsoft Azure active directory

Medicine and genetics

  • Acute aortic dissection, a type of Aortic dissection
  • Antiarrhythmic drug, another name for antiarrhythmic agent
  • Antibiotic-associated diarrhea
  • 7-Aminoactinomycin D (7-AAD), a fluorescent stain for DNA
  • Arbitrarily amplified DNA (AAD), a family of DNA profiling methods

Other scientific and technological uses

  • Average absolute deviation, a measure of absolute deviation and a way to report error against reference data in statistics
  • AAD, the SPARS code for a CD that was recorded analog, mixed analog, and transferred digitally

Other uses

  • Amal language, a language of Papua New Guinea
  • Attitude-toward-the-ad models in marketing is a way of measuring the success of an advertisement

See also

  • AD (disambiguation)
  • 'Ad (disambiguation)