SAD

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The initialism SAD may refer to:

Medicine

  • Schizoaffective disorder, a psychiatric diagnosis
  • Social anxiety disorder
  • Seasonal affective disorder, typically winter depression
  • Separation anxiety disorder in children
  • Sagittal abdominal diameter, body diameter at the waistline

Organisations

Political or military

  • Shiromani Akali Dal, a political party in India
  • Special Activities Division of the US Central Intelligence Agency, now named the Special Activities Center
  • Saraya Awliya al-Dam, an Iraqi militia

Sports clubs

Science and technology

  • Selected area diffraction, a crystallographic experimental technique
  • Sum of absolute differences, in digital image processing
  • Single-wavelength anomalous dispersion, in X-ray crystallography

Transportation

Songs

  • "S.A.D.", from Man Overboard's 2013 album Heart Attack

Other uses

  • SAD scheme, a form of intellectual property enforcement in the United States
  • Singles Awareness Day, a humorous holiday every February 14
  • The Single Administrative Document, EU customs form
  • The Standard American Diet, another name for the Western pattern diet
  • The Suicide Attack Database, now named the Database on Suicide Attacks

See also

  • Sad (disambiguation)
Topics referred to by the same term
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