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AD (Anno Domini) is a designation used to label years following 1 BC in the Julian and Gregorian calendars.

Contents

• Art, entertainment, and media
• Film and television
• Music
• Publications
• Video games
• Other art, entertainment, and media
• Brands and enterprises
• Educational qualifications
• Military
• Organizations
• People
• Places
• Professions
• Science and technology
• Biology and medicine
• Chemistry
• Computing
• Mathematics
• Physics
• Other uses in science and technology
• Transportation
• Other uses
• See also

Ad (advertisement) is a form of marketing communication.

AD, A.D. or Ad may also refer to:

Art, entertainment, and media

Brands and enterprises

• Alexander Dennis, a British bus manufacturer
• Akcionersko društvo (aкционерско друштво), a Macedonian name for a type of company
• Aktsionerno drujestvo (акционерно дружество), a Bulgarian name for a type of company
• akcionarsko društvo (aкционарско друштво), a Serbian name for a type of company
• Analog Devices, a semiconductor company

Educational qualifications

• Artist diploma, a music performance certificate conferred by higher education institutions.

Military

• Accidental discharge, a mechanical failure of a firearm causing it to fire
• Active duty, a status of full duty or service, usually in the armed forces
• Air defense, an anti-aircraft weaponry and systems
• Air Department, part of the British Admiralty
• A US Navy hull classification symbol: Destroyer tender (AD)
• AD Skyraider, former name of the Douglas A-1 Skyraider, a Navy attack aircraft

Organizations

• Action Directe, a French far-left militant group
• Democratic Action (Venezuela) (Spanish: Acción Democrática), a social democratic and center-left political party
• Democratic Alliance (Portugal, 1979) (Portuguese: Aliança Democrática), a former centre-right political alliance
• Democratic Alternative (Malta) (Maltese: Alternattiva Demokratika), a green political party

People

• Ad (name), a given name, and a list of people with the name
• ‘Ad, great-grandson of Shem, son of Noah
• A.D., nickname of Adrian Dantley (born 1955), American basketball player and coach
• AD, nickname of Anthony Davis (born 1993), American basketball player
• A. D. Loganathan (1888–1949), officer of the Indian National Army
• A. D. Whitfield (born 1943), American football player
• A. D. Winans (born 1936), American poet, essayist, short story writer and publisher
• A.D., nickname of Adrian Peterson (born 1985), American football player

Places

• AD, ISO 3166-1 country for Andorra
• Abu Dhabi, capital of the United Arab Emirates
• AD, herbarium code for the State Herbarium of South Australia
• Andhra Pradesh, a state in southern India (HASC code)

Professions

• Art director, for a magazine or newspaper
• Assistant director, a film or television crew member
• Athletic director, the administrator of an athletics program

Science and technology

Transportation

• AD, IATA code for:
  • Air Paradise, a defunct Indonesian airline
  • Azul Brazilian Airlines
• Airworthiness Directive, an aircraft maintenance requirement notice

Other uses

• ʿĀd, an ancient Arab tribe, mentioned in the Quran
• Aggregate demand, in macroeconomics
• Anno Diocletiani, an alternative year numbering system
• United States Academic Decathlon, a high school academic competition

See also

Search for "ad"  or "a.d." on Wikipedia.

• Anno Domini (disambiguation)
• BC (disambiguation)
• Domino (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles beginning with AD
• All pages with titles beginning with ad
• All pages with titles beginning with A.D
• All pages with titles beginning with A. D
• All pages with titles containing a.d.
• All pages with titles containing ad

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