CAD is a commonly used acronym for computer-aided design.
CAD or Cad may also refer to:
Science, medicine, computing, and mathematics Charged aerosol detector, used to measure the amount of chemicals in a sample Collisionally activated dissociation, a technique in mass spectrometry Cold-air damming, a meteorological phenomenon CAD (gene), an enzyme-encoding gene Caspase-activated DNase, a protein encoded by the DFFB gene in humans Coronary artery disease, a group of cardiovascular diseases Cold agglutinin disease, an autoimmune disease that makes the suffering predisposed to autoimmune hemolytic anemia Computer-aided diagnosis, software for assisting physicians in the interpretation of medical images Control-alt-delete Cylindrical algebraic decomposition, a notion and an algorithm in computer algebra and real algebraic geometry A right-continuous function, often seen as part of the acronym càdlàg for continue à droite, limite à gauche from French.
Transportation and places Computer-aided dispatch, software used to dispatch and track vehicles or personnel Center axle disconnect, a type of automotive drivetrain Civil Aviation Department (Hong Kong), also called CAD CAD, the IATA code for Wexford County Airport in Michigan, United States CAD, the station code for Cadoxton railway station in Wales CAD (TransMilenio), a mass-transit station in Bogotá, Colombia cad., part of a Turkish address standing for caddesi (road) Cad (river), a river in Romania Cad Brook, a tributary of the River Isle in Britain
Language, literature, and people
cad, the ISO 639 code for the Caddo language of the Caddo Nation of Oklahoma Chicago Assyrian Dictionary, a project to compile a dictionary of the Akkadian language CAD, abbreviation for the American Ctrl+Alt+Del (webcomic) Cad Bane, a character in the Star Wars franchise Cad (character), a man who is aware of gentlemanly codes, but does not live up to them Cad Coles (1886–1942), American baseball player
Other uses Canadian dollar, by currency code CAD Capital Adequacy Directives CAD1 and CAD2, EU directives on capital requirements Central Ammunition Depot (disambiguation), several depots nicknamed "CAD" Civil Affairs Division, of the US Army
See also CADS (disambiguation) CADD (disambiguation) CAAD, abbreviation for Computer-aided architectural design caid (sport), pronounced "cad"