A CAD by Any Other Name...

CAD means computer aided design, right? Type ‘CAD’ into Google and you are likely to get a lot of irrelevant links. Why? Apparently, CAD has many meanings. After years of searching and conducting hundreds of searches a day, TenLinks has found that CAD means many things to many people:

• Civil Aviation Department
• CAD professional microphones
• Communications Aids Design
• computer aided dispatch
• cash available for distribution
• Center for Advanced Diagnostics
• Confined Aquatic Disposal
• computer aided detection
• coronary artery disease
• Commercial Affairs Department
• Civil Aviation Department (Hong Kong)
• Cash Against Document
• Children's Aid Direct
• Component Advanced Development
• Computer-Aided Debrief
• Command Area Development
• Component Advanced Development
• Croydon Communities Against Drugs
• Committee for Agricultural Development (Iowa)
• Capital Adequacy Directive
• Galveston Central Appraisal District
• Communities Against Drugs
• Citizens Against Drugs
• California Academic Decathlon
• cold agglutinin disease
• Cold Air Damming (weather)
• smooth muscle-specific caldesmon (h-CaD) and non-muscle (l-CaD)
• Campaign Against Dumping
• Columbia After Dark (place for Christian singles to meet and greet)
• Ni-Cad rechargeable batteries
• PAMSCAD, povertyCAD, BeatingCAD etc CAD (from Ghanaweb.com)
• Consumer Affairs Directorate
• Computer Aided Drug Design

Using Google ads? Your CAD products and services my be showing up in all sorts of unintended places. Reminds me of what John Wanamaker said:

"I know half the money I spend on advertising is wasted, but I can never find out which half"

Know any more meanings of CAD?

Comments

[John]

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[rtara]

Thanks, Matt. Great list at Acronym Attic...and another one at acronymfinder.com. I'll add them those to my collection.

[Matt Stachoni]

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[Bilal Succar]

Interesting compilation!
There are another 200+ incarnations of the acronym 'CAD' listed within the 'Acronym Attic'...http://www.acronymattic.com/results.aspx?q=CAD

[Jimmy Bergmark]

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