Pad

For PAD written in all-caps, such as in an acronym, see PAD (disambiguation).

Pad or pads may refer to:

Wearables

• Pads, protective equipment used in baseball, cricket, and hockey
  • Elbow pad
  • Knee pad
  • Shoulder pads (sport)
• Menstrual pad, used to absorb menstrual or other vaginal blood
• Incontinence pad, worn to absorb involuntarily expelled bodily fluids
• Shoulder pads (fashion), fabric-covered padding in clothing
• Cycling pad, found in cycling shorts, pants and tights

Computing and electronics

Input devices

• Gamepad, joypad, or controller, an input device used in gaming
• Graphics pad, a computer input device
• Keypad, buttons arranged in a block
• Touchpad or trackpad, a pointing device featuring a tactile sensor
• Trigger pad, an electronic sensor on a drum

Other hardware

• Contact pad, the designated surface area for an electrical contact
• A resistive pad used in an attenuator
• An electronic notebook
• A tablet computer
• GridPad, the first commercially successful tablet computer
• iPad, a tablet computer made by Apple
• ThinkPad, a laptop brand first designed and produced by IBM, but now owned by Lenovo
• WatchPad, discontinued IBM smartwatch line
• WorkPad, discontinued line of PDA, branded by IBM

Other uses in computing and electronics

• One-time pad, a method of cryptography

Transportation

• Brake pad, part of a drum brake
• Launch pad, an area where spacecraft start flight
• Helicopter landing pad
• Roll way or running pad, placed along the rails of metro or tram tracks

Music

• Pad, some holes of woodwind instruments (clarinets, saxophones...) are closed by air-tight pads.
• Soft, mellow timbres generated by synthesisers are often called pads, and are generally used as backing sounds.

Other uses

• Part of a mammal's paw
• Pad, Roane County, West Virginia
• A paper notebook
• San Diego Padres, a Major League Baseball team nicknamed the "Pads"

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Pad
• All pages with titles containing Pad
• PADS (disambiguation)
• PAD (disambiguation)
• PADD
• Padding (disambiguation)