Gad or GAD may refer to:
Government and politics
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General Administration Department
The General Administration Department ( my, အထွေထွေအုပ်ချုပ်ရေးဦးစီးဌာန, abbreviated GAD) is a civil service body that staffs all regional and state-level governments in Myanmar and provides adm ...
, of Burma's Ministry of Home Affairs
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Government Actuary's Department
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Grand Alliance for Democracy, a Philippine political coalition
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People's Liberation Army General Armaments Department People's Liberation Army General Armaments Department (GAD; ) was founded in April 1998 and is in charge of equipping and arming the People's Liberation Army, as well as overseeing and improving military technology. It is one of the four "general de ...
People
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Gad (name) In the Bible, Gad was the son of Jacob and the founder of the tribe of Gad. Gad is a surname, masculine given name and nickname which may refer to:
Given name
*Gad al-Haq (1917-1996), Egyptian Grand Imam of Al-Azhar from 1982 to 1996
* Gad Avigad ...
, a list of people with the surname, given name or nickname
Places
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Gad, West Virginia, flooded in the construction of Summersville Lake, United States
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Gad, Wisconsin
Gad is an unincorporated community located in Marathon and Taylor Counties, Wisconsin, United States. The Marathon County portion of Gad is in the town of Bern, while the Taylor County portion is in the town of Browning
Browning may refer to:
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, an unincorporated community, United States
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Gad Cliff
Gad Cliff is a south-facing cliff face, immediately to the east of Worbarrow Tout and Pondfield Cove, on the south coast of the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset, England. Behind it is Gold Down, part of the Lulworth Ranges.
Location
Gad Cliff is l ...
, Dorset, England
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Gad River
This is a list of rivers of India, starting in the west and moving along the Indian coast southward, then northward. Tributary rivers are listed hierarchically in upstream order: the lower in the list, the more upstream.
The overall discharge of r ...
, Maharashtra, India
* Gad, a village in
Ghilad
Ghilad ( hu, Gilád; german: Gilad or ''Kilatt'') is a communes of Romania, commune in Timiș County, Romania. It is composed of two villages, Gad ( hu, Gád; sr, Гад, Gad) and Ghilad. These were part of the commune of Ciacova until 2004, whe ...
Commune, Timiș County, Romania
Religion
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Gad (son of Jacob)
Gad () was, according to the Book of Genesis, the first of the two sons of Jacob and Zilpah (Jacob's seventh son) and the founder of the Israelite tribe of Gad. However, some Biblical scholars view this as postdiction, an eponymous metaphor pro ...
, the founder of the tribe of Gad and seventh son of Jacob
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Tribe of Gad
According to the Bible, the Tribe of Gad () was one of the Twelve Tribes of Israel who, after the Exodus from Egypt, settled on the eastern side of the Jordan River. It is one of the ten lost tribes.Tribe still originated from the original Hebre ...
, a tribe of the ancient Kingdom of Israel
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Gad (prophet)
Gad (, ) was a seer or prophet mentioned in the Hebrew Bible and the writings of Jewish historian Josephus. He was one of the personal prophets of King David of Israel and, according to the Talmudic tradition, some of his writings are believed to ...
, King David's seer or prophet
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Gad (deity)
Gad was the name of the pan- Semitic god of fortune, usually depicted as a male but sometimes as a female. and is attested in ancient records of Aram and Arabia. Gad is also mentioned in the bible as a deity in the Book of Isaiah (Isaiah 65:11 ...
, a pan-Semitic deity worshipped during the Babylonian captivity
Science, medicine, and mathematics
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Generalized anxiety disorder
Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is a mental and behavioral disorder, specifically an anxiety disorder characterized by excessive, uncontrollable and often irrational worry about events or activities. Worry often interferes with daily function ...
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Glutamate decarboxylase
Glutamate decarboxylase or glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD) is an enzyme that catalyzes the decarboxylation of glutamate to gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) and carbon dioxide (). GAD uses pyridoxal-phosphate (PLP) as a cofactor. The reaction p ...
, an enzyme in mammals
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Glycoazodyes
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Gadolinium-based MRI contrast agent
MRI contrast agents are contrast agents used to improve the visibility of internal body structures in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The most commonly used compounds for contrast enhancement are gadolinium-based. Such MRI contrast agents shorten ...
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Great dodecahedron
In geometry, the great dodecahedron is a Kepler–Poinsot polyhedron, with Schläfli symbol and Coxeter–Dynkin diagram of . It is one of four nonconvex regular polyhedra. It is composed of 12 pentagonal faces (six pairs of parallel pentagon ...
, a regular polyhedron
Other uses
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Gaddang language
The Gaddang language (also Cagayan) is spoken by up to 30,000 speakers (the Gaddang people) in the Philippines, particularly along the Magat and upper Cagayan rivers in the Region II provinces of Nueva Vizcaya and Isabela and by overseas migr ...
, spoken in the Philippines
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Gender and development Gender and development is an interdisciplinary field of research and applied study that implements a Feminism, feminist approach to understanding and addressing the disparate impact that economic development and globalization have on people based up ...
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Northeast Alabama Regional Airport
Northeast Alabama Regional Airport is five miles southwest of Gadsden, in Etowah County, Alabama. It is owned by Gadsden Airport Authority and it used to be Gadsden Municipal Airport. The FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2 ...
, in Etowah County, Alabama, United States
* General Anthropology Division, of the
American Anthropological Association
The American Anthropological Association (AAA) is an organization of scholars and practitioners in the field of anthropology. With 10,000 members, the association, based in Arlington, Virginia, includes archaeologists, cultural anthropologists, ...
See also
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GADS (disambiguation)
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Gadd Gadd is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Anthony Gadd (1917–1996), British bobsledder
* C. J. Gadd (1893–1969), British Assyriologist and curator
* Christianne Gadd, former name of actress Christianne Oliveira (born 1971) ...
, a surname
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