PAD may refer to:

Media and entertainment

  • Peter Allen David (1956–2025), American writer
  • Poker After Dark, a poker television show
  • Puzzle & Dragons, a 2012 Japanese mobile game

Military

  • Pontoon Assembly Detachment, of the U.S. Navy Seabees
  • Prithvi Air Defence, a missile

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 North American 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

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Transportation

  • London Paddington station (station code: PAD), England
  • Paderborn Lippstadt Airport (IATA code: PAD), Germany

Other uses

  • Pre-authorized debit, a financial transaction

See also

  • Pad (disambiguation)
  • PADS (disambiguation)
  • Pad (disambiguation)