LAD

Lad or lads may refer to:

• A boy/young man in Irish/Scottish/Northern English
• Lad culture, a British subculture

Places

• Ląd, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland
• Lad, Hungary, a village
• Lad, Bhiwani, a village in the Bhiwani district of the Indian state of Haryana

Arts and entertainment

Music

• The Lads, a New Zealand Christian rock-pop band

Gaming

• Lad (video game), 2012 iOS game

Literature

• Lad: A Dog, a collection of short stories by Albert Payson Terhune, based on a real-life dog named Lad

Other uses

• Judaeo-Spanish ISO 639 alpha-2 language code (also known as Ladino)

LAD is a three letter acronym that can stand for:

Medicine

• Leukocyte adhesion deficiency
• Left anterior descending, an alternate name for the anterior interventricular branch of left coronary artery
• Left axis deviation
• Locally advanced disease, a stage in the progression of cancer
• Lymphadenopathy
• Lysergic acid diethylamide

Military

• LAD, the acronym of the Lithuanian Auxiliary Police Battalions, also known as the Lithuanian Security Units (Lithuanian: Lietuvos apsaugos dalys).

Organizations

• Light Aid Detachment, a subunit of the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers or Royal Canadian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
• Los Angeles Dodgers, a Californian baseball team, which played in Brooklyn prior to 1958
• Latin America Division, a unit in some international organisations
• Lycée Alexandre Dumas
• Swiss Laboratory for Doping Analyses (Laboratoire suisse d'analyse du dopage)

Transportation

• Ladywell railway station (National rail station code LAD), a railway station in Ladywell, London
• Quatro de Fevereiro Airport (IATA code LAD), the largest airport in Angola, located in Luanda

Others

• Language Acquisition Device, part of the human brain structure as proposed by Noam Chomsky
• Least absolute deviations, a mathematical optimization technique
• Land assembly district, a proposed legal regime for assembling land
• Local Address Data, a concept in digital electronics
• Life after death, a religious or philosophical question
• Ladder logic, a graphical programming language
• Laboratory aim density
• Lamina-associating domains, regions of the chromosome that interact with the nuclear lamina

See also

• Ladd (disambiguation)