AD (disambiguation)

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AD and Ad may refer to:

  • Anno Domini, Latin for "In the Year of (Our) Lord", applied to years in the Julian and Gregorian calendars following 1 BC. Religion-oriented alternative to CE, or Common Era
  • Advertisement, the promotion of an item, service, company, and/or idea

[edit] Media and culture

  • A. D. (television), a 1985 miniseries concerning early Christian history
  • A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge, a serialized webcomic on SMITH Magazine
  • Ad, columnist in the English newspaper, The Saturday Sport (see also International Fanny Magnet)
  • AD (band), a Christian rock band from 1984-1988
  • AD (finnish band), Acción Directa, a Finnish industrial band.
  • AD Music, record label
  • Algemeen Dagblad, a Dutch newspaper
  • American Dad!, a Fox Network animated program
  • Anno Domini (band), a death metal band from Sydney, Australia, who formed at Turramurra High School in c. 2005.
  • Anno Domini (gallery), a contemporary art gallery in San Jose, California
  • Arrested Development, a Fox Network TV program
  • Art director, the administrator in charge of art and design for a magazine or newspaper
  • Assistant director, a film crew member who manages various tasks
  • "at", "to", or "for", in some Latin phrases (such as ad lib or ad nauseam)
  • Athletic director, the administrator of the athletics program, usually at an educational institution
  • Academic Decathlon, a United States high school based academic competition

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[edit] Military

  • Air defence, anti-aircraft weaponry and systems
  • Accidental discharge, the mistaken firing of a firearm
  • Active duty, a status of full duty or service, usually referencing full service in the armed forces
  • 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 component of Microsoft Windows that provides distributed user management and authentication
  • 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 Devices, a multinational producer of semiconductor devices.
  • 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
  • Atypical depression, a depression that still allows one to feel positive moods.
  • Adamantyl (Ad), an abbreviation in organic chemistry for Adamantyl
  • Sharpless asymmetric dihydroxylation, an abbreviation in organic chemistry for Sharpless asymmetric dihydroxylation

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