Card or The Card may refer to: * Various types of

plastic card A debit card, also known as a check card or bank card is a payment card that can be used in place of cash to make purchases. The term ''#Plastic card, plastic card'' includes the above and as an identity document. These are similar to a credi ...

s: **By type *** Magnetic stripe card ***

Chip card A smart card, chip card, or integrated circuit card (ICC or IC card) is a physical electronic authentication device, used to control access to a resource. It is typically a plastic credit card-sized card with an embedded integrated circuit (IC) c ...

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Digital card The term digital card can refer to a physical item, such as a memory card on a camera, or, increasingly since 2017, to the digital content hosted as a virtual card or cloud card, as a digital virtual representation of a physical card. They share ...

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Debit card A debit card, also known as a check card or bank card is a payment card that can be used in place of cash to make purchases. The term '' plastic card'' includes the above and as an identity document. These are similar to a credit card, but u ...

**** EC-card **** Identity card **** European Health Insurance Card **** Driver's license * Playing card, a card used in games *

Printed circuit board A printed circuit board (PCB; also printed wiring board or PWB) is a medium used in Electrical engineering, electrical and electronic engineering to connect electronic components to one another in a controlled manner. It takes the form of a L ...

* Punched card, a piece of stiff paper that holds digital data represented by the presence or absence of holes in predefined positions. *In communications ** Postcard ** Greeting card, an illustrated piece of card stock featuring an expression of friendship or other sentiment *

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, in mathematical notation, a function that returns the

cardinality In mathematics, the cardinality of a set is a measure of the number of elements of the set. For example, the set A = \ contains 3 elements, and therefore A has a cardinality of 3. Beginning in the late 19th century, this concept was generalized ...

of a set * Card, a tool for

carding Carding is a mechanical process that disentangles, cleans and intermixes fibres to produce a continuous web or sliver (textiles), sliver suitable for subsequent processing. This is achieved by passing the fibres between differentially moving su ...

, the cleaning and aligning of fibers * Sports terms ** Card (sports), the lineup of the matches in an event **

Penalty card Penalty cards are used in many sports as a means of warning, reprimanding or penalising a player, coach or team official. Penalty cards are most commonly used by referees or umpires to indicate that a player has committed an offence. The officia ...

As a proper name

People with the name

Card (surname) Card is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Andrew Card, politician, Secretary of Transportation under George H.W. Bush and White House Chief of Staff under George W. Bush *Charles Ora Card (1839–1906), American Mormon founder o ...

Companies

* Cards Corp, a South Korean internet company

Arts and entertainment

* "The Card" (The New Twilight Zone), a TV episode * '' The Card'', a 1911 novel by Arnold Bennett ** ''The Card'' (1922 film), based on the novel ** ''The Card'' (1952 film), based on the novel ** ''The Card'' (musical), based on the novel * "The Card", an episode of ''SpongeBob SquarePants'' (season 6) * ''The Card'', a 2012 novel written by Graham Rawle * The Deck of Cards, a recitation song

Sport

Sports teams

Arizona Cardinals The Arizona Cardinals are a professional American football team based in the Phoenix metropolitan area. The Cardinals compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the National Football Conference (NFC) West division, and play t ...

, a National Football League team nicknamed the "Cards" * St. Louis Cardinals, a Major League Baseball team nicknamed the "Cards" * Louisville Cardinals, the sports teams of the University of Louisville, nicknamed the "Cards" * Woking F.C., an association football club, based in Surrey, England, nicknamed the "Cards"

As an acronym

Finance and government

Community Assistance for Reconstruction, Development, and Stabilisation A community is a Level of analysis, social unit (a group of living things) with commonality such as place (geography), place, Norm (social), norms, religion, values, Convention (norm), customs, or Identity (social science), identity. Communiti ...

(CARDS) programme, the European Union's main financial assistance instrument to the western Balkans *

Credit CARD Act of 2009 The Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure (CARD) Act of 2009 is a federal statute passed by the United States Congress and signed by U.S. President Barack Obama on May 22, 2009. It is a comprehensive credit card reform leg ...

(Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility, and Disclosure Act of 2009), signed into law in 2009 by President Obama

Healthcare and science

* Caspase recruitment domain or CARD domain, an interaction motif found in a wide array of proteins * Center for Autism and Related Disorders, an applied behavior analysis provider * Wolfson Centre for Age-Related Diseases * The Comprehensive Antibiotic Resistance Database (CARD)

Other uses of the acronym

* Campaign Against Racial Discrimination, British organization, founded in 1964, that lobbied for race relations legislation * American Committee for Devastated France (''Comité Américain pour les Régions Dévastées de France''), an organization of American women volunteers who helped France recover from * Collegiate Aerial Robotics Demonstration, a college-level FIRST competition