title: ARD
text: # ARD
  
  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
  