AD (disambiguation)

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Contents 1 Media and culture 2 Politics and history 3 Military 4 Science and technology 5 Transportation 6 People

AD, Ad or ad may refer to:

• Anno Domini, Latin for "In the Year of (Our) Lord", applied to years following 1 BC
• Advertisement, the promotion of an item, service, company, and/or idea
• Academic Decathlon, a United States high school based academic competition

[edit] Media and culture

• American Dad!, a Fox Network Animated Program
• Arrested Development (TV Series), a Fox Network TV program
• Assistant director, a film crew member who manages various tasks
• Art director, the administrator in charge of art
• Athletic director, the administrator of the athletics program, usually at an educational institution
• AD (band), a Christian rock band from 1984-1988
• A. D. (television), a 1985 miniseries concerning early Christian history
• Algemeen Dagblad, a Dutch newspaper
• Anno Domini (gallery), a contemporary art gallery in San Jose, California
• "at", "to", or "for", in some Latin phrases (such as ad lib or ad nauseam)
• AD Music, a record label

[edit] Politics and history

• Andorra, a small country in the Pyrenees
  • .ad, Andorra's ccTLD (Internet Top Level Domain)
  • Andorra's ISO 3166-1 country code
• Action Directe (terrorist group), a French Maoist/Marxist-Leninist terrorist group
• Democratic Action (Spanish: Acción Democrática), a Venezuelan social democratic party
• Democratic Alternative (Malta) (Maltese: Alternattiva Demokratika), the Maltese Green party
• Aad (Omani tribe), a destroyed civilization mentioned in the Quran
• Anno Diocletiani, the Era of (Emperor) Diocletian, an alternate year-numbering start date

[edit] Military

• Air defence, anti-aircraft weaponry and systems
• Accidental discharge, the mistaken firing of a firearm
• Destroyer Tender (US Navy Hull Classification: AD), support ships to aid the operation of a fleet of destroyers
• The Air Department, part of the British Admiralty

[edit] Science and technology

• Adenovirus, viruses of the family Adenoviridae.
• Alzheimer's disease, a disease leading to the degeneration of neural function and dementia, usually seen in older people
• Active Directory, a Microsoft administration program
• Aggregate demand, the total demand curve of an entire economy that is the sum of each individual's demand
• Automatic differentiation, a way to speedily compute derivatives in computer programming
• Axiom of determinacy, a set theory axiom inconsistent with the Axiom of Choice
• Autodynamics, an alternate to special relativity proposed by Ricardo Carezani in physics
• Audio description, a narration track for blind and visually impaired viewers of media such as TV and film
• Administrative domain, a collection of hosts and routers into one network
• Analog-to-digital converter (A/D), a circuit which converts continuous analog signals to discrete digital values
• Active Disassembly, a technology involving specially designed building materials and components which are sturdy yet can easily be decomposed
• Autonomic Dysreflexia, a condition in which "unreachable" parts of the nervous system (for instance, those beneath a damaged spine) malfunction
• Sharpless asymmetric dihydroxylation a chemical reaction that earned its inventor half of the 2001 Nobel Prize for Chemistry

[edit] Transportation

• Airworthiness Directive, requirements on legal usage of airplanes given by the FAA
• Air Paradise (IATA code: AD), a defunct Indonesian airline
• Atlantic & Danville (AAR reporting mark: AD), a defunct railway acquired by the (also now defunct/merged) Norfolk, Franklin and Danville Railway

[edit] People

• Antonio Davis, basketball player