Cad (disambiguation)

CAD is a commonly used acronym for computer-aided design.

CAD or Cad may also refer to:

Biology and medicine

 * 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

Chemistry

 * Charged aerosol detector, used to measure the amount of chemicals in a sample
 * Collisionally activated dissociation, a technique in mass spectrometry

Economics

 * Canadian dollar, by currency code CAD
 * Capital Adequacy Directives CAD1 and CAD2, EU directives on capital requirements

Science and technology

 * Cold-air damming, a meteorological phenomenon
 * Computer-aided dispatch, software used to dispatch and track vehicles or personnel
 * Control-alt-delete

Transportation

 * CAD (TransMilenio), a mass-transit station in Bogotá, Colombia
 * 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

Other uses

 * Cad (character), a man who is aware of gentlemanly codes, but does not live up to them
 * Cad Coles (1886–1942), American baseball player
 * Cad (river), a river in Romania
 * Cad Bane, a character in the Star Wars franchise
 * Cad Brook, a tributary of the River Isle in Britain
 * Central Ammunition Depot (disambiguation), several depots nicknamed "CAD"
 * Chicago Assyrian Dictionary, a project to compile a dictionary of the Akkadian language
 * Cylindrical algebraic decomposition, a notion and an algorithm in computer algebra and real algebraic geometry
 * cad, the ISO 639 code for the Caddo language of the Caddo Nation of Oklahoma
 * CAD, abbreviation for the American Ctrl+Alt+Del (webcomic)
 * Civil Affairs Division, of the US Army
 * cad., caddesi in Turkish