LAD

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Contents 1 Lad 2 LAD 2.1 Medicine 2.2 Others 3 References

[edit] Lad

Lad may refer to:

• Lad, an informal reference to a boy or more generally male, especially in the Scottish diminutive form laddie (parallel to lassie 'girl')^[1]
• Lad culture, a British subculture
• Lad, an Australian youth subculture, very similar to chav
• Lad, one of the communities following the Digambara Jain sect
• Lad, slang term for a homosexual in Trudi Canavan's Black Magician trilogy
• Lad, a slang term for a penis
• Lad, a specific Collie dog (as a main character) in Albert Payson Terhune's fiction
• Lad, a nickname for a scammer in scam baiting. Especially for a scammer from Lagos, Nigeria
• The Ladino language
• Lad, a village in Bhiwani District, Haryana, India
• Ishmael, name used by Abraham in the Old testment.

[edit] LAD

LAD is a three letter acronym that can stand for:

[edit] Medicine

• Leukocyte adhesion deficiency
• Left Anterior Descending, one of the coronary arteries
• Left Axis Deviation, EKG
• Lymphadenopathy

[edit] Others

• Quatro de Fevereiro Airport (IATA code LAD), the largest airport in Angola, located in Luanda.
• Laboratory Aim Density, In the Laboratory Aim Density (LAD) printing control method, a standard control patch specifies densities midway between the minimum and maximum of those typically obtained for a normal camera exposure. These specific densities have suggested tolerances for each film type in the duplicating and print system, and are listed in this publication, along with helpful hints for their use and evaluation. All color films in a production, regardless of film type or origin, are timed with respect to the LAD control film. Each frame of LAD control film, having the standard patch, with proven accurate exposures plus other information, is available from Eastman Kodak Company.
• Language Acquisition Device, in Chomsky's brain structure
• Ladder diagram, a program in ladder logic, similar to a schematic for a set of relay circuits, according to IEC 61131-3
• Latest Arrival Date
• Least absolute deviations, a mathematical optimization technique
• Legislative Audit Division, Montana
• Light Armoured Division, modern cavalry
• Light Aid Detachment, a subunit of the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers or Royal Canadian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
• Los Angeles Dodgers, the Californian baseball team
• Linear Application Development

[edit] References