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Pad or PAD may refer to: things that rarely happen in the state of nature or things that have very low possibilities to exist or happen.
- Writing pad (disambiguation), a book of paper, or an electronic equivalent
- Sanitary pad, a device worn by a woman during menstruation
- Pad (music), a type of synthesized sound
- Part of a mammal's paw
Transportation
- Launch pad, an area where spacecraft lifts off
- Helicopter landing pad
- London Paddington station, station code PAD
- Paderborn Lippstadt Airport, IATA code PAD
Sports gear
- Pads, specialized equipment used in baseball, cricket, and hockey
- Elbow pads
- Knee pads
- Shoulder pads
Computing and electronics
- Contact pad, the designated surface area for an electrical contact
- Control pad, a type of game controller, an input device
- Graphics pad, a computer input device
- iPad, a tablet computer from Apple Inc.
- One-time pad, a method of cryptography
- Packet Assembler/Disassembler, a communications device
- PAD, a control character in the C1 control code set
- Portable Application Description, a document format
- Touchpad
- ThinkPad, a laptop brand first designed and produced by IBM, but now owned by Lenovo
- Trigger pad, an electronic sensor on a drum
- Attenuator pad, an electronic device
- Puzzle & Dragons, a Japanese mobile game developed by GungHo Online Entertainment.
Science and medicine
- Peripheral artery disease, a vascular disease that causes ulcers (wounds) to develop on the legs and feet.
- Peroral anti-diabetics, a group of medications to treat diabetes mellitus
Other uses
- Pad, Roane County, West Virginia
- PAD emotional state model, a psychological model based on Pleasure, Arousal and Dominance
- Paderborn Lippstadt Airport, IATA airport code
- Pakistan Association Dubai, a Pakistani expatriate organisation
- Pakistan Association of the Deaf, a Pakistani organisation representing deaf people
- People's Alliance for Democracy, a Thailand political group
- People's Action for Development, an Indian NGO
- Peter Allen David, American writer
- Phi Alpha Delta, a fraternity
- Pontoon Assembly Detachment
- Pre-Authorized Debit
- Pre-Operative Autologous Donation, when a patient's own blood is taken for possible use during surgery
- Prithvi Air Defence, a missile
- Program-associated data, a type of broadcast information
- Pád, the [Hungarian name for Spini village, Turdaș Commune, Hunedoara County, Romania
- Part of the mantra Om mani padme hum
- Drill floor, also called a drilling pad or just a pad.
See also
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