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Pad or PAD may refer to:
Protective gear
- Pads, specialized equipment used in baseball, cricket, and hockey
- Elbow pads
- Knee pads
- Shoulder pads
Computing and electronics
Input devices
- Touchpad or trackpad, a pointing device featuring a tactile sensor
- Gamepad, joypad, or controller, an input device used in gaming
- Graphics pad, a computer input device
- Trigger pad, an electronic sensor on a drum
Other hardware
- Attenuator pad, an electronic device
- Contact pad, the designated surface area for an electrical contact
- iPad, a tablet computer made by Apple
- ThinkPad, a laptop brand first designed and produced by IBM, but now owned by Lenovo
Other uses in computing and electronics
- Pad (music), a type of synthesized sound
- PAD, a control character in the C1 control code set, used for padding
- One-time pad, a method of cryptography
Transportation
- Launch pad, an area where spacecraft lifts off
- Helicopter landing pad
- London Paddington station, station code PAD
- Paderborn Lippstadt Airport, IATA code PAD
- Roll way or running pad, placed along the rails of certain metro or tram tracks
Other uses
- Writing pad (disambiguation), a book of writing paper, or an electronic equivalent
- Sanitary pad, a device worn during menstruation
- Shoulder pads (fashion), fabric-covered padding used in clothing
- Part of a mammal's paw
- Concrete slab, sometimes called a pad
- Pad, Roane County, West Virginia
- Part of the mantra Om mani padme hum
- Drill floor, also called a drilling pad or just a pad
See also
- PAD (disambiguation), for ititialisms
- Padding
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