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Pad can be:
- In electronic music, a sound (timbre), which can be used to produce soft, imperceptible harmonic background. The most common (almost standard) types of pads are: choir pad, strings, warm pad, etc.
- An abbreviation for maxi pad, sanitary napkin (US), or "towel" (UK).
- One of the transliterations of the fourth syllable in the Buddhist "six syllable mantra": Om mani padme hum.
- In rocketry, pad is short for launch pad, the platform from which an orbital vehicle is launched.
- A pad on which helicopters land is called a Helipad.
- A term for a tablet of paper, and from this, in computing, word-processing programs such as Notepad and WordPad.
- A mat used in computing to place a mouse upon, namely, a mousepad.
- In electronics, a flat surface used to make electrical contact. A special case is bonding pads, to which components are soldered.
It can also be a three letter acronym. See PAD.
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