Pad
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Pad or PAD can be either a word, an alias or a three letter acronym:
- as a word
- Protective gear:
- Elbow pads
- Hip pads
- Knee pads
- Shoulder pads.
- Maxi pad
- A Synth pad in electronic music is a sound (timbre), which is a harmonic background sound
- An electronic drum pad.
- A pad button found on some mixing consoles, used for lowering input gain.
- In electronics manufacturing, a flat surface used to make electrical contact. A special case is bonding pads, to which components are soldered.
- In audio electronics, an attenuator.
- A bachelor pad.
- The PAD control character in the C1 control code set.
- A part of the ethernet frame that fills in the data field (if necessary) to ensure that it meets the minimum length (46 bytes). For this reason, the data field is often called the "Data/Pad" field.
- An abbreviation for maxi pad, sanitary napkin (US), or "towel" (UK).
- One of the transliterations of the fourth syllable in the Buddhist "six syllable mantra": Om mani padme hum.
- In rocketry, pad is short for launch pad, the platform from which an orbital vehicle is launched.
- Pad: As part of animal paw.
- A pad on which helicopters land is called a Helipad.
- A term for a tablet of paper, and from this, in computing, word-processing programs such as Notepad and WordPad.
- A mat used in computing to place a mouse upon, namely, a mousepad.
- Protective gear:
- As an acronym
- Peripheral Artery Disease, a condition which causes poor circulation in the legs.
- program-associated data, usually data sent along with a TV program
- Packet Assembler/Disassembler, an X.29 interface to a computer terminal
- Portable Application Description, a machine-readable document format for providing product descriptions and specifications.
- Pipe Acquisition Disorder
- The IATA Code of Paderborn Lippstadt Airport
- PAD or Payphone Antifraud Device is an electronic circuit that monitors the telephone line connected to a payphone. The circuit looks for various conditions that indicate tampering with the line which then performs some pre-programmed function in order to prevent the fraudulent call being made.
- Poker After Dark a late night poker television program on NBC
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