ARD

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ARD or Ard may refer to:

Arts and media

• ARD (broadcaster), the German public broadcaster
  • Das Erste, their main television channel
  • ARD International Music Competition
• Ard, a character in the 1981 film Heavy Metal

Military

• Army Reconnaissance Detachment 10, a special forces unit of the Swiss Armed Forces
• US Navy hull classification symbol for an auxiliary repair dry dock

People

• Ard (surname), a surname of Scottish origin
• Ard (biblical figure), a son of Benjamin in the Bible
• Ard., abbreviation in scientific literature for botanist Pietro Arduino

Places

Republic of Ireland

• Ardpatrick, County Limerick
• Ardpatrick, a townland in County Louth

United Kingdom

• Ard, Inverness, Scotland
• Ardgay railway station, Scotland
• Ardpatrick, Argyll, Scotland
• Ardpatrick, a townland in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland

United States

• Ard, Arkansas
• Ardmore station (Pennsylvania) (by Amtrak code)

Elsewhere

• Arad, Iran
• Alor Island Airport, Indonesia (IATA: ARD)

Politics

• Alliance for Restoration of Democracy, a Pakistani political movement
• Democratic Republican Alliance, Alliance Républicaine Démocratique or ARD, a French political party of the Third Republic
• Republican Alliance for Democracy, an opposition party in Djibouti (Alliance Républicaine pour le Développement)
• Right Romania Alliance, Alianţa România Dreaptăa, short-lived electoral alliance in Romania

Science and technology

• Ard (plough), a simple plough
• Acid rock drainage, the outflow of acidic water from mines
• Acireductone dioxygenase (iron(II)-requiring), an enzyme
• Aging-associated disease, diseases of senescence
• Alcohol-related dementia
• Antimicrobial Removal Device, Marion Laboratories product
• Apple Remote Desktop, computer application
• Atmospheric Reentry Demonstrator, ESA spacecraft
• Auxiliary repair dock

Other uses

• Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition, an American pretrial intervention program
• American Research and Development Corporation, one of the first venture capital firms
• Ard Patrick (foaled 1899), a horse

See also

• Ards (disambiguation)

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