Grad or grads may refer to:

Places

Grad (toponymy) Grad () is an Old Slavic word meaning "town", "city", "castle" or "fortified settlement". Initially present in all related languages as '' gord'', it can still be found as ''grad'', ''gradić'', '' horod'' or ''gorod'' in many placenames today. ...

(Cyrillic: Град) is a Slavic word meaning "town", "city", "castle" or "fortified settlement" that appears in numerous Slavic toponyms ;Specific places named Grad: *

Grad, Visoko Grad is a village in the municipality of Visoko, Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina ( sh, / , ), abbreviated BiH () or B&H, sometimes called Bosnia–Herzegovina and often known informally as Bosnia, is a country at the cross ...

, Bosnia and Herzegovina * Grad, Delčevo, North Macedonia * Grąd, Podlaskie Voivodeship, Poland * Grąd, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland *

Grad, Cerklje na Gorenjskem Grad () is a village in the Municipality of Cerklje na Gorenjskem in the Upper Carniola region of Slovenia. Church The local church is dedicated to Saint Helena Saint Helena () is a British overseas territory located in the South Atlantic ...

, Slovenia *

Municipality of Grad The Municipality of Grad (; sl, Občina Grad) is a municipality in Slovenia Slovenia ( ; sl, Slovenija ), officially the Republic of Slovenia (Slovene: , abbr.: ''RS''), is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the wes ...

, Slovenia **

Grad, Grad Grad (; formerly ''Gornja Lendava'', hu, Felsőlendva) is a village in the Municipality of Grad in the Prekmurje region of northeastern Slovenia. It is the seat of the municipality and is the largest and oldest settlement in the Goričko region. ...

, a village, the seat of the municipality

People

Grad (surname) Grad is the surname of the following people: * Adam Grad (1969–2015), Polish association football player * Aleksander Grad (born 1962), Polish politician * Dagmara Grad * Harold Grad (1923–1986), American mathematician * Ilya Grad (born 1987), I ...

Arts, entertainment, and media

* ''Grad'' (EP), a Cactus Jack EP * Grad, the dragon in ''

Ral Grad is a Japanese manga series written by Tsuneo Takano and illustrated by Takeshi Obata. It is loosely based on the '' Blue Dragon'' video game. The story revolves around the journey of a young man named Ral from the kingdom of Sphaelite. Ral ha ...

Education

*Grad, short for a graduate, one who has graduated from an education program, also known as an alumnus *Grad school, short for

graduate school Postgraduate or graduate education refers to academic or professional degrees, certificates, diplomas, or other qualifications pursued by post-secondary students who have earned an undergraduate ( bachelor's) degree. The organization and stru ...

Geometry and measurement

Gradian In trigonometry, the gradian, also known as the gon (from grc, γωνία, gōnía, angle), grad, or grade, is a unit of measurement of an angle, defined as one hundredth of the right angle; in other words, there are 100 gradians in 90 degree ...

, a unit of angular measurement *

Gradient In vector calculus, the gradient of a scalar-valued differentiable function of several variables is the vector field (or vector-valued function) \nabla f whose value at a point p is the "direction and rate of fastest increase". If the gr ...

of a scalar field, a differential operator in mathematics * Grad, a small unit in tuning very close to the

schisma In music, the schisma (also spelled ''skhisma'') is the interval between a Pythagorean comma (531441:524288) and a syntonic comma (81:80) and equals or 32805:32768 = 1.00113, which is 1.9537 cents (). It may also be defined as: * the differ ...

, which it is also called

Other uses

BM-21 Grad The BM-21 "Grad" (russian: БМ-21 "Град", lit= hail) is a self-propelled 122 mm multiple rocket launcher designed in the Soviet Union. The system and the M-21OF rocket were first developed in the early 1960s, and saw their first com ...

, a Soviet multiple-launch rocket system and an associated series of artillery rockets *

Grad Associates Grad Associates formerly Grad Partnership and Frank Grad & Sons, was an architectural firm based in Newark, New Jersey. Founded in 1906 by Frank Grad (1882–1968), the company was later run by his sons, Bernard (d. August 4, 2000) and Howard ( ...

, an architectural firm based in Newark, New Jersey *

GrADS The Grid Analysis and Display System (GrADS) is an interactive desktop tool that is used for easy access, manipulation, and visualization of earth science data. The format of the data may be either binary, GRIB, NetCDF, or HDF-SDS (Scientific Da ...

, a free software for geophysical data visualization {{disambiguation, geo