PAD

PAD written in all-caps, such as in an acronym, may refer to:

Media and entertainment

 * Peter Allen David, American writer
 * Poker After Dark, a poker television show which features sit and gos and cash games
 * Puzzle & Dragons, a 2012 Japanese mobile game developed by GungHo Online Entertainment

Organizations

 * Pädagogischer Austauschdienst, a German scholastic exchange service
 * Pakistan Association of the Deaf, a Pakistani organisation representing deaf people
 * Pakistan Association Dubai, a Pakistani expatriate organisation
 * People's Action for Development, an Indian NGO
 * People's Alliance for Democracy, a political group in Thailand
 * Phi Alpha Delta, a fraternity
 * Propaganda and Agitation Department of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea

Computing

 * Packet Assembler/Disassembler, a communications device
 * PAD, a C1 control code used for padding
 * Portable Application Description, a document format
 * Program-associated data, a type of broadcast information

Medicine and psychology

 * PAD emotional state model, a psychological model based on pleasure, arousal and dominance
 * Peripheral artery disease, a vascular disease that causes ulcers (wounds) to develop on the legs and feet
 * Peroral anti-diabetics, a group of medications to treat diabetes mellitus
 * Pre-Operative Autologous Donation, when a patient's own blood is taken for possible use during surgery

Other technologies

 * Prithvi Air Defence, a missile

Transport

 * PAD, London Paddington station's station code
 * PAD, Paderborn Lippstadt Airport's IATA code

Other uses

 * Pontoon Assembly Detachment of the U.S. Navy Seabees
 * Pre-Authorized Debit or direct debit, a financial transaction in which one withdraws funds from another person's account