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"