Meaning of rad | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Initialism of role activity diagram.
   abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism
2. Initialism of Radiation Assessment Detector, a scientific instrument of the Mars Science Laboratory onboard the Curiosity rover at Mars.
   abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
3. A non-SI unit of absorbed dose of radiation, equal to 0.01 gray, that is, 1 centigray.
4. Initialism of rapid application development.
   abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
5. Acronym of River Arts District, a neighborhood of Asheville, North Carolina, United States.
   abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
6. Symbol for the radian, a unit of measure for angle.
   alt-of, symbol
7. Initialism of reactive attachment disorder.
   abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
8. Clipping of radiator.
   abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, slang
9. Abbreviation of sight radius.
   abbreviation, alt-of, slang
10. Clipping of radical: a political radical.
    abbreviation, alt-of, clipping

Equivalents

Examples

“Near-synonyms: centigray, cGy (same physical quantity)”

“The women who work in it with me are all feminists, they're all rads, two of them are black belts in karate...I mean, they're major women.”

“The recovery is still a work in progress, given the deadly storm’s massive impact on people across Western North Carolina and its devastation of two popular Asheville neighborhoods — the RAD (“rad”), as locals call it, and nearby Biltmore Village.”

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