Gad

Gad or GAD may refer to:

Government and politics

• General Administration Department, of Burma's Ministry of Home Affairs
• Government Actuary's Department, of the Government of the United Kingdom
• Grand Alliance for Democracy, a Philippine political coalition
• People's Liberation Army General Armaments Department

People and religion

• Gad (name), a list of people with the surname, given name or nickname
• Gad (son of Jacob), the founder of the tribe of Gad and seventh son of Jacob
  • Tribe of Gad, a tribe of the ancient Kingdom of Israel
• Gad (prophet), King David's seer or prophet
• Gad (deity), a pan-Semitic deity worshipped during the Babylonian captivity

Places

• Gad, West Virginia, flooded in the construction of Summersville Lake, United States
• Gad, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community, United States
• Gad Cliff, Dorset, England
• Gad River, Maharashtra, India
• Gad, a village in Ghilad Commune, Timiș County, Romania
• GAD, IATA airport code and FAA location identifier for Northeast Alabama Regional Airport, United States

Medicine, biology, and chemistry

• Generalized anxiety disorder
• Gadolinium-based MRI contrast agent
• Glutamate decarboxylase, an enzyme in mammals
• Glycoazodyes, synthetic dyes

Other uses

• gad, ISO 639-3 code for the Gaddang language, spoken in the Philippines
• Gender and development, a feminist interdisciplinary field of research and applied study
• General Anthropology Division of the American Anthropological Association
• Great dodecahedron, a regular polyhedron

See also

• GADS (disambiguation)
• Gadd, a surname