Gad or GAD may refer to:

Government and politics

  • General Administration Department, of Burma's Ministry of Home Affairs
  • Government Actuary's Department, of the Government of the United Kingdom
  • Grand Alliance for Democracy, a Philippine political coalition
  • People's Liberation Army General Armaments Department

People

  • Gad (name), a list of people with the surname, given name or nickname

Places

  • Gad, West Virginia, flooded in the construction of Summersville Lake, United States
  • Gad, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community, United States
  • Gad Cliff, Dorset, England
  • Gad River, Maharashtra, India
  • Gad, a village in Ghilad Commune, Timiș County, Romania

Religion

  • Gad (son of Jacob), the founder of the tribe of Gad and seventh son of Jacob
  • Tribe of Gad, a tribe of the ancient Kingdom of Israel
  • Gad (prophet), King David's seer or prophet
  • Gad (deity), a pan-Semitic deity worshipped during the Babylonian captivity

Science, medicine, and mathematics

  • Generalized anxiety disorder
  • Glutamate decarboxylase, an enzyme in mammals
  • Glycoazodyes, synthetic dyes
  • Gadolinium-based MRI contrast agent
  • Great dodecahedron, a regular polyhedron

Other uses

  • gad, ISO 639-3 code for the Gaddang language, spoken in the Philippines
  • GAD, IATA airport code and FAA location identifier for Northeast Alabama Regional Airport, United States
  • Gender and development, a feminist interdisciplinary field of research and applied study
  • General Anthropology Division of the American Anthropological Association

See also

  • GADS (disambiguation)
  • Gadd, a surname