Padi, PADI or Pa Di may refer to: *

Padi, Chennai Padi () is a locality and neighbourhood in the city of Chennai, India. It was named after Nayanmars, Especially Sundarar, (Tamil saints) came to Padi and sang songs in the Lord Shiva Temple (Tiruvalleeswarar Temple). Padi exactly 13 km fro ...

, India, a locality and neighbourhood in the city of Chennai **

Padi railway station Padi railway station is one of the two, now defunct, railway stations of the extended southern arm of the Chennai Central–Arakkonam section of the Chennai Suburban Railway Network, the other one being Anna Nagar railway station. It served the ...

Padi, Iran Padehi ( fa, پده اي, also Romanized as Padeh’ī and Padehī; also known as Padai, Padā’ī, Padegī, and Padī) is a village in Qorqori Rural District, Qorqori District, Hirmand County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran Ira ...

, a village *

Padi Boyd Padi Boyd is an American astrophysicist. She is the head of NASA's Exoplanets and Stellar Astrophysics Laboratory and an Associate Director at the Goddard Space Flight Center. She is the project scientist for NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey S ...

, American astrophysicist *

Padi Richo Padi Richo is a politician from the Arunachal Pradesh state in India. He was a member of the Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly from Ziro-Hapoli in the Lower Subansiri district. He belongs to the Indian National Congress. His successor is ...

, Indian politician *

Padi (band) Padi (Indonesian for ''Oryza sativa'') is an Indonesian rock band. It is formed in 1996 with their early name Soda. When the band formed on April 8, 1997 through the rename from Soda to Padi, all of its members were still studying at Airlangga U ...

, an Indonesian rock band *

Pa Di language Pa Di ' is a Southwestern Tai language of the Chinese–Vietnamese border. There are about 300 Pa Di speakers in Muong Khuong District, Lao Cai Province, Vietnam, who are classified as ethnic Tày by the Vietnamese government. Pa Di tonal spli ...

, spoken in the China-Vietnam border region

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PADI1 Peptidyl arginine deiminase, type I, also known as PADI1, is a protein which in humans is encoded by the ''PADI1'' gene. This gene encodes a member of the peptidyl arginine deiminase family of enzymes, which catalyze the post-translational deimi ...

, peptidyl arginine deiminase *

Professional Association of Diving Instructors The Professional Association of Diving Instructors (PADI) is a recreational diving membership and diver training organization founded in 1966 by John Cronin and Ralph Erickson. Cronin was originally a NAUI instructor who decided to form his ...

, a scuba organization * PPPoE Active Discovery Initiation, establishment of a connection via

Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet The Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet (PPPoE) is a network protocol for encapsulating Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) frames inside Ethernet frames. It appeared in 1999, in the context of the boom of DSL as the solution for tunneling packets ...

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