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• Anno Domini, Latin for "In the Year of the Lord"
• Advertisement, the promotion of an item, service, company, and/or idea

Dionysius Exiguus invented Anno Domini years to date Easter. ... Generally speaking, advertising is the paid promotion of goods, services, companies and ideas by an identified sponsor. ...

Media and culture

• Arrested Development (TV Series), a Fox Network TV program
• Assistant director, a film crew member who manages various tasks
• Art director, the administrator in charge of art
• Athletic director, the administrator of the athletics program, usually at an educational institution
• AD (band), a Christian rock band from 1984-1988
• Algemeen Dagblad, a Dutch newspaper
• Anno Domini (gallery), a contemporary art gallery in San Jose, California
• "at", "to", or "for", in some Latin phrases (such as ad lib or ad nauseam)

Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... The Assistant director (AD) is a filmmaking role. ... The term art director, is an overall title for a variety of similar job functions in advertising, publishing, film and television, the Internet, and video games. ... blah blah Modern athletic directors are often in a coaching misconduct being proven, often the athletic director will be terminated along with the offending coach. ... A.D. was a 1980s Christian rock band, featuring former Kansas members Kerry Livgren and Dave Hope, and former Bloodrock member Warren Ham sharing the lead vocal duties along with Michael Gleason. ... Algemeen Dagblad is a Dutch newspaper. ... Anno Domini is a contemporary art gallery in San Jose, California. ... This page includes English translations of several Latin phrases and abbreviations such as . ...

Politics and history

• Andorra, a small country in the Pyrenees
  • .ad, Andorra's ccTLD (Internet Top Level Domain)
  • Andorra's ISO 3166-1 country code
• Action Directe (terrorist group), a French Maoist/Marxist-Leninist terrorist group
• Democratic Action (Spanish: Acción Democrática), a Venezuelan social democratic party
• Democratic Alternative (Malta) (Maltese: Alternattiva Demokratika), the Maltese Green party
• Aad (Omani tribe), a destroyed civilization mentioned in the Quran
• Anno Diocletiani, the Era of (Emperor) Diocletian, an alternate year-numbering start date

.ad is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Andorra. ... ISO 3166-1, as part of the ISO 3166 standard, provides codes for the names of countries and dependent areas. ... Action Directe was a French Maoist/Marxist-Leninist terrorist group which committed a series of assassinations and violent attacks in France between 1979 and 1987. ... Democratic Action (Spanish: Acción Democrática, abbreviated as AD) is a Venezuelan social democratic political party. ... The Democratic Alternative (Alternattiva Demokratika) is an ecologist political party in Malta. ... Ad (Arabic عاد) was an ancient Arabian nation mentioned in the Quran as being the place where the Islamic prophet Hud (هود) was sent to by Allah to guide its people back to the righteous path of Islam. ... The anno Diocletiani era or the Diocletian era or the Era of Martyrs is a method of numbering years used by Alexandrian Christians during the fourth and fifth centuries. ...

Military

• Accidental discharge of a firearm
• Air defence, anti-aircraft weaponry and systems
• Destroyer Tender (US Navy Hull Classification: AD), support ships to aid the operation of a fleet of destroyers
• The Air Department, part of the British Admiralty

Accidental discharge is the event of a firearm discharging (firing) by means other than a deliberate pull of the trigger, such as dropping a loaded weapon. ... American troops man an anti-aircraft gun near the Algerian coastline in 1943 Anti-aircraft warfare, or air defense, is any method of engaging military aircraft in combat from the ground. ... Destroyer tender is a ship designed to provide maintenance support to a flotilla of destroyers or other small warships. ... The Air Department of the British Admiralty was established prior to World War I by Winston Churchill. ...

Science and technology

• Adenovirus, viruses of the family Adenoviridae.
• Alzheimer's disease, a disease leading to the degeneration of neural function and dementia, usually seen in older people
• Active Directory, a Microsoft administration program
• Aggregate demand, the total demand curve of an entire economy that is the sum of each individual's demand
• Automatic differentiation, a way to speedily compute derivatives in computer programming
• Axiom of determinacy, a set theory axiom inconsistent with the Axiom of Choice
• Autodynamics, an alternate to special relativity proposed by Ricardo Carezani in physics
• Audio description, a narration track for blind and visually impaired viewers of media such as TV and film
• Administrative domain, a collection of hosts and routers into one network
• Analog-to-digital converter (A/D), a circuit which converts continuous analog signals to discrete digital values
• Active Disassembly, a technology involving specially designed building materials and components which are sturdy yet can easily be decomposed
• Autonomic Dysreflexia, a condition in which "unreachable" parts of the nervous system (for instance, those beneath a damaged spine) malfunction

Genera Mastadenovirus Aviadenovirus Atadenovirus Siadenovirus Adenoviruses are viruses of the family Adenoviridae. ... Typically Active Directory is managed using the graphical Microsoft Management Console. ... In economics, aggregate demand is the total demand for goods and services in the economy (Y) during a specific time period. ... In mathematics and computer algebra, automatic differentiation, or AD, sometimes alternatively called algorithmic differentiation, is a method to numerically evaluate the derivative of a function specified by a computer program. ... In mathematics, the axiom of determinacy (abbreviated as AD) is an axiom in set theory. ... Autodynamics is a replacement for special relativity and general relativity proposed by physicist Ricardo Carezani, in the early 1940s. ... Audio description refers to an additional narration track for blind and visually impaired viewers of visual media, including television and movies, dance, opera, and visual art. ... Administrative domain is when all the networks and network devices under the control of one particular organization. ... An analog-to-digital converter (abbreviated ADC, A/D or A to D) is an electronic circuit that converts continuous signals to discrete digital numbers. ... Active Disassembly (AD) is a developing technology which is associated with the term Active Disassembly using Smart Materials (ADSM) // Outline Smart materials such as Shape memory alloys are now offering the possibility of allowing complex items to be disassembled easily and in a cost-effective manner. ... The nervous system of an animal coordinates the activity of the muscles, monitors the organs, constructs and also stops input from the senses, and initiates actions. ...

Transportation

• Airworthiness Directive, requirements on legal usage of airplanes given by the FAA
• Air Paradise (IATA code: AD), a defunct Indonesian airline
• Atlantic & Danville (AAR reporting mark: AD), a defunct railway acquired by the (also now defunct/merged) Norfolk, Franklin and Danville Railway

An Airworthiness Directive (commonly abbreviated to AD) is a notification to aircraft owner/operators of a known safety issue with a particular model of aircraft, engine, avionics or other system. ... Air Paradise is an airline based in Indonesia. ... The Norfolk, Franklin & Danville (AAR reporting mark NFD) at one time operated 250 miles of track between Norfolk, Virginia and Danville, Virginia. ...

People

• Antonio Davis, basketball player

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