ARD or Ard may refer to:
People
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Ard (surname)
Ard is a surname of Scottish origin. It is an anglicized variant of the original Scottish surname Aird.
Origins and variants
Ard is a habitational name from any of several places called Aird in Scotland, including a small hamlet near Hurlf ...
, a surname of Scottish origin
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Ard (biblical figure), a son of Benjamin in the Bible
* Ard., abbreviation in scientific literature for botanist
Pietro Arduino
Pietro Arduino (18 July 1728, in Caprino Veronese – 13 April 1805, in Padua
Padua ( ; it, Padova ; vec, Pàdova) is a city and ''comune'' in Veneto, northern Italy. Padua is on the river Bacchiglione, west of Venice. It is the capita ...
Places
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Ard, Arkansas, U.S.
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Ard, Inverness, Scotland
* Ard, alternate name of
Arad, Iran
Arad ( fa, ارد, also Romanized as Ard, Erad, Īrad, and Ird) is a city and capital of Arad District, in Gerash County, Fars Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 5,264, in 1,181 families.
The outskirts of the city include m ...
, a city in Fars Province
* ARD, the IATA code for
Alor Island Airport
Alor Island Airport , also known as Mali Airport, is an airport in Alor Island, Indonesia
Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of ...
, Indonesia
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Ardgay railway station
Ardgay railway station is a railway station serving the village of Ardgay and its neighbour Bonar Bridge in the Highland (council area), Highland Council areas of Scotland, council area of Scotland. The station is on the Far North Line, from , be ...
, Scotland, station code
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Ardmore station (Pennsylvania)
Ardmore station is a train station in Ardmore, Pennsylvania, located on the Pennsylvania Main Line. The station serves several Amtrak Keystone Service trains daily, as well as all SEPTA Paoli/Thorndale Line local regional rail trains. The sta ...
, Philadelphia, US, Amtrak code
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Ardpatrick, Argyll, Scotland
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Ardpatrick, County Limerick
Ardpatrick () is a small village in County Limerick, Ireland. It lies at the foot of the north slopes of the Ballyhoura Mountains, on the edge of the Golden Vale. As of the 2006 census, the electoral division of Ardpatrick which contains the vi ...
, Republic of Ireland
* Ardpatrick, a townland in County Louth, Republic of Ireland, see
* Ardpatrick, a townland in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, see
Organizations
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ARD (broadcaster)
ARD is a joint organisation of Germany's regional public-service broadcasters. It was founded in 1950 in West Germany to represent the common interests of the new, decentralised, post-war broadcasting services – in particular the introduction ...
, ''Arbeitsgemeinschaft der öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunkanstalten der Bundesrepublik Deutschland'', German Association of Public Broadcasters
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Das Erste
Das Erste (; "The First") is the flagship national television channel of the ARD association of public broadcasting corporations in Germany. ''Das Erste'' is jointly operated by the nine regional public broadcasting corporations that are member ...
, primary television channel of the ARD, often called the same
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ARD International Music Competition
The ARD International Music Competition (german: link=no, Internationaler Musikwettbewerb der ARD) is the largest international classical music competition in Germany. It is organised by the Bayerischer Rundfunk and held once a year in Munich.
Si ...
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Alliance for Restoration of Democracy
The Alliance for the Restoration of Democracy (ARD) was an alliance of the two then largest political parties in Pakistan - the Pakistan People’s Party and the Pakistan Muslim League (N) formed on 3 December 2000. The two parties had been know ...
, a Pakistani political movement
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American Research and Development Corporation
American Research and Development Corporation (ARDC) was a venture capital and private equity firm founded in 1946 by Georges Doriot, Ralph Flanders, Merrill Griswold, and Karl Compton.
ARDC is credited with the first major venture capital ...
, the first venture capital firm
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Army Reconnaissance Detachment 10, a special forces unit of the Swiss Armed Forces
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Democratic Republican Alliance
The Democratic Alliance (french: Alliance démocratique, AD), originally called Democratic Republican Alliance (, ARD), was a French political party created in 1901 by followers of Léon Gambetta such as Raymond Poincaré, who would be presiden ...
, ''Alliance Républicaine Démocratique'' or ARD, a French political party of the Third Republic
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Republican Alliance for Democracy
The Republican Alliance for Democracy (french: Alliance Républicaine pour la Démocratie) ( ar, التحالف الجمهوري من أجل الديمقراطية) is an opposition political party in Djibouti, founded by Ahmed Dini Ahmed. In the p ...
, an opposition party in Djibouti (''Alliance Républicaine pour le Développement'')
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Right Romania Alliance
The Right Romania Alliance ( ro, Alianţa România Dreaptă, ARD, also translating to "Just Romania Alliance") was a Romanian electoral alliance formed between the Democratic Liberal Party (PDL), the Christian Democratic National Peasants' Part ...
, ''Alianţa România Dreaptăa'', short-lived electoral alliance in Romania
Science and technology
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Acid rock drainage
In computer science, ACID ( atomicity, consistency, isolation, durability) is a set of properties of database transactions intended to guarantee data validity despite errors, power failures, and other mishaps. In the context of databases, a sequ ...
, the outflow of acidic water from mines
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Acireductone dioxygenase (iron(II)-requiring)
Acireductone dioxygenase ron(II)-requiring'' () is an enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction
:1,2-dihydroxy-5-(methylthio)pent-1-en-3-one + O2 \rightleftharpoons 4-(methylthio)-2-oxobutanoate + formate
Thus, the two substrates of this en ...
, an enzyme
* Antimicrobial Removal Device,
Marion Laboratories
Marion Merrell Dow and its predecessor Marion Laboratories was a U.S. pharmaceutical company based in Kansas City, Missouri from 1950 until 1996.
The company specialized in bringing to market drugs that had been discovered but unmarketed by other ...
product
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Apple Remote Desktop
Apple Remote Desktop (ARD) is a Macintosh application produced by Apple Inc., first released on March 14, 2002, that replaced a similar product called ''Apple Network Assistant''. Aimed at computer administrators responsible for large numbers of ...
, computer application
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Atmospheric Reentry Demonstrator
The Advanced Reentry Demonstrator (ARD) was a European Space Agency (ESA) suborbital reentry vehicle. It was developed and operated for experimental purposes, specifically to validate the multiple reentry technologies integrated upon it and the ve ...
, ESA spacecraft
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Auxiliary repair dock
An auxiliary repair dock (ARD) is a type of floating drydock employed by the U.S. Navy, especially during World War II. The Navy commissioned 33 ARD vessels: ARD-1 through ARD-33. ARDs were self-sustaining in World War II. ARDs have a rudder to hel ...
** US Navy
hull classification symbol
The United States Navy, United States Coast Guard, and United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) use a hull classification symbol (sometimes called hull code or hull number) to identify their ships by type and by ind ...
for an auxiliary repair dry dock
Other uses
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Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition (ARD) is a pretrial intervention program in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, United States for non-violent offenders with no prior or limited record.
The primary purpose of the program is the rehabilitation ...
, pretrial intervention program, Pennsylvania, US
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Aging-associated disease
An aging-associated disease (commonly termed age-related disease, ARD) is a disease that is most often seen with increasing frequency with increasing senescence. They are essentially complications of senescence, distinguished from the aging pr ...
, a disease that is most often seen with increasing frequency with increasing senescence
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Alcohol-related dementia
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Ard (plough)
The ard, ard plough, or scratch plough is a simple light plough without a mouldboard. It is symmetrical on either side of its line of draft and is fitted with a symmetrical share that traces a shallow furrow but does not invert the soil. It bega ...
, a simple plough
* Ard, a character in the 1981 film
''Heavy Metal''
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Ard Patrick, a horse
See also
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Ards (disambiguation)
Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is a type of respiratory failure characterized by rapid onset of widespread inflammation in the lungs. Symptoms include shortness of breath (dyspnea), rapid breathing (tachypnea), and bluish skin color ...
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