PAD

PAD may refer to:

Media and entertainment

• Peter Allen David (1956–2025), American writer
• Poker After Dark, a poker television show
• Puzzle & Dragons, a 2012 Japanese mobile game

Military

• Pontoon Assembly Detachment, of the U.S. Navy Seabees
• Prithvi Air Defence, a missile

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 North American fraternity
• Propaganda and Agitation Department, of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea

Science and technology

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

Transportation

• London Paddington station (station code: PAD), England
• Paderborn Lippstadt Airport (IATA code: PAD), Germany

Other uses

• Pre-authorized debit, a financial transaction

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with PAD
• All pages with titles containing PAD
• Pad (disambiguation)
• PADS (disambiguation)
• Pad (disambiguation)