Aid

AID may refer to:

  • Activation-Induced (Cytidine) Deaminase, an enzyme
  • Aid (rapper) (born 1990), stagename of Aida Alonso Iglesias, a Spanish rap singer.
  • Algebraic Interpretive Dialogue, an implementation of JOSS II for the PDP-10
  • Americans for Informed Democracy, an American non-profit organization
  • Amputee identity disorder, now more commonly known as Body integrity identity disorder, a controversial psychological and neurological mental disorder.
  • Applet Identifier, identifier of the applets in Java programming language
  • Artificial Insemination by Donor, a type of human artificial insemination in which donor sperm are provided by an individual other than the recipient's partner
  • Association for India's Development, an American/Indian non-profit organization
  • Autoimmune disease, a disorder with an overactive immune response of the body.
  • Automatic Interaction Detection, a precursor to, and component of CHAID


Famous quotes containing the word aid:

    Another appealing aspect to having grandparents is that they do help, to give [your child] a sense of continuity—of his place in the world and in the generations. Not only do grandparents help him intellectually to comprehend that there are parents of parents, but they also aid him in understanding where he fits in the succession of things. Even a very young child can begin to feel a sense of rootedness and history.
    Lawrence Balter (20th century)

    For this invention of yours will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn it, by causing them to neglect their memory, inasmuch as, from their confidence in writing, they will recollect by the external aid of foreign symbols, and not by the internal use of their own faculties. Your discovery, therefore, is a medicine not for memory, but for recollection,—for recalling to, not for keeping in mind.
    Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)

    There exists in a great part of the Northern people a gloomy diffidence in the moral character of the government. On the broaching of this question, as general expression of despondency, of disbelief that any good will accrue from a remonstrance on an act of fraud and robbery, appeared in those men to whom we naturally turn for aid and counsel. Will the American government steal? Will it lie? Will it kill?—We ask triumphantly.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)