RAD explained
RAD or Rad may refer to:
Arts, entertainment and media
- Rad (film), a 1986 American sports film
- Rad (character), a villain in AC Comics's "Femforce"
- Rad Spencer, fictional character in the Bionic Commando video game series
- Bradley "Rad" White, fictional character in the Transformers Unicron Trilogy
- Rad (My-Otome), a fictional manga character
- Rad (video game), 2019
- Robot Alchemic Drive, a video game
- Rad (journal), a Croatian academic journal
Businesses and organisations
- Rad Aviation, a defunct British aircraft manufacturer
- RAD Group, a number of independent companies in the networking and telecommunications industry
- RAD Game Tools, a video game developer
- Reich Labour Service (Reichsarbeitsdienst), a paramilitary organization in Nazi Germany
- Rezvani Automotive Designs, American performance car manufacturer
- Rite Aid, New York Stock Exchange stock symbol RAD
- Royal Academy of Dance, British examination board for dance education and training
- Royal Association for Deaf people, British charity
People
Given name or nickname
- Rad Dougall (Robert Anthony Dougall, born 1951), South African racing driver
- Rad Hourani (born 1982), Canadian fashion designer and artist
- Rad Kortenhorst (Leonardus Gerardus Kortenhorst, 1886–1963), Dutch politician
- Rad Martinez (born 1978), American mixed martial artist
- Sydney Valpy Radley-Walters (1920–2015), nicknamed Rad, Canadian Army officer
- Rad Radford, a ring name of American wrestler Louis Mucciolo Jr. (1971–1998)
Surname
- Jahon Rad (born 2001), American soccer player, twin brother of Kaveh Rad
- Jovana Rad (born 1987), Serbian basketball player
- Kaveh Rad (born 2001), American soccer player, twin brother of Jahon Rad
- Taras Rad (born 1999), Ukrainian Paralympic cross-country skier and biathlete
Places
Science and technology
- Radian, symbol rad, a unit of angle
- Rad (radiation unit), a unit of absorbed radiation dose
- Radiation assessment detector, a scientific instrument on board the Curiosity rover
- Radical of an integer,, in number theory
- Rapid application development, a software development approach
- Reactive attachment disorder, an emotional disorder
- Reflex anal dilation, the reflexive dilation of the human anus
- Relative abundance distribution, a measure of biodiversity
- Restriction site associated DNA markers, a type of genetic marker
- Right axis deviation, a heart condition
- .rad file format, for Radiance (software)
Other uses
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