ARD
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Ard or ARD may refer to:
- Ard (plough), a primitive type of plough
- ARD (broadcaster), the Arbeitsgemeinschaft der öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunkanstalten der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, the German association of public broadcasters
- Acid rock drainage, the outflow of acidic water from (usually) abandoned metal mines or coal mines
- Democratic Republican Alliance (or AD), a French conservative party of the Third Republic
- Alliance for Restoration of Democracy, a Pakistani political movement that opposes President Pervez Musharraf
- Apple Remote Desktop, a remote administration application for Apple Macintosh computers
- Ardmore (SEPTA station), from its Amtrak 3-letter code
- Ardgay railway station, from its National Rail code
- Armenian dram, often and wrongly claimed to have this ISO 4217 code
- Atmospheric Reentry Demonstrator, a demonstration program of an Apollo spacecraft-shaped capsule by the European Space Agency
- Auxiliary repair dry dock, from the US Navy hull classification symbol
Ards or ARDS also has multiple meanings:
- Ards Borough is a district in Northern Ireland
- The Ards Peninsula separates Strangford Lough from the North Channel on Ireland's northeast coast.
- Ards F.C. is a Northern Irish football club in the Irish First Division.
- ARDS is the abbreviation of Acute respiratory distress syndrome, formerly known as adult respiratory distress syndrome