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Topics referred to by the same term

Grad or grads may refer to:

01Places

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

02Arts, entertainment, and media

03Education

  • Grad, short for a graduate, one who has successfully completed an education program

04Geometry and measurement

  • Gradian, a unit of angular measurement
  • Gradient of a scalar field, a differential operator in mathematics
  • Grad, a small unit in tuning very close to the schisma, which it is also called
  • abbreviation of gigaradian (Grad), a unit of angle
  • abbreviation of gigarad (Grad), a unit of radiation dose

05Other uses

  • BM-21 Grad, a Soviet multiple-launch rocket system and an associated series of 122 mm (4.80 in) artillery rockets
  • Grad Associates, an architectural firm based in Newark, New Jersey
  • GrADS, a free software for geophysical data visualization
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