Gad or GAD may refer to:

Government and politics

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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, of the Government of the United Kingdom * Grand Alliance for Democracy, a Philippine political coalition *

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

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

* Gad, West Virginia, flooded in the construction of Summersville Lake, United States *

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: ...

, an unincorporated community, United States *

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 *

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 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, when they were split off ...

Commune, Timiș County, Romania

Religion

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 **

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 *

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 *

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

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 ...

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 *

Glycoazodyes Glycoazodyes (or GADs) are a family of "naturalised" synthetic dyes, so called because they are the conjugation of common commercial azo dyes with a sugar through a "linker". This principle is summarised in the scheme below. Generations, Structu ...

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 ...

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

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 *

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 ...

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 ...