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Rand may refer to:
Money and business
- South African rand, a currency
- Digital Monetary Trust rand, a digital currency
- Reasonable and non-discriminatory licensing, type of licensing used in the context of standardisation processes
- Rand formula, formula in Canadian labour law
Places
- Rand, New South Wales, small town in Australia
- Rand, Lincolnshire, small village in Lincolnshire, England
- Rand, California, community in Kern County, California
- Rand, Colorado, an unincorporated community in Jackson County, Colorado
- Rand, Texas, an unincorporated community in Kaufman County, Texas
- Rand, West Virginia, a census-designated place in Kanawha County, West Virginia
- the Brussels Periphery, known colloquially as de Rand in Dutch
- Witwatersrand, a ridge that runs through Gauteng, South Africa, known colloquially as die Rand in Afrikaans
People
- Rand (given name)
- Rand (surname)
- Jason "Rand" Hitt, software developer
- Rand (Robotech), character from the fictional Third Robotech War
Organizations
- RAND Corporation, an American think tank
- Rand Refinery, the world’s largest gold refinery
Science and technology
- rand, any of a number of pseudorandom number generator functions in various programming languages
- Rand index, technique for measuring the similarity between two data clusters
- R And, a variable star
See also
- East Rand, urban eastern part of the Witwatersrand
- West Rand, urban western part of the Witwatersrand
- Ayn Rand Institute, an American think tank
- Rand McNally, American map publisher and printer
- Ingersoll-Rand, diversified American industrial firm
- Remington Rand, American computer firm and general manufacturer
- Sperry Rand, American equipment and electronics company
- Rand Mining District, area in Kern County, California
- Randburg, area in Gauteng province, South Africa
- Randsburg, California
- Krugerrand, South African gold coin
- Randlord, term used to denote the entrepreneurs who controlled the diamond and gold mining industries in South Africa in its pioneer phase
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