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


Other articles related to "aid":

Aid Climbing - Grading
... The A grading scale (A for 'artificial' or 'aid') incorporates difficulty of placing protection, and the danger associated with falling ... original scale was a closed gradation scale from A0-A5, modern aid climbers have adopted "new wave" grading which compresses the scale but still uses A0-A5 ... A1 Easy aid, no risk of any piece of protection pulling out ...
International Finance Facility
... An IFF is designed to frontload aid to help meet the Millennium Development Goals ... on global capital markets, against the security of government guarantees to maintain future aid flows, which would be used to buy back the bonds over a longer period ... This allows a large amount of aid to flow soon, at the expense of less aid in the future ...

Famous quotes containing the word aid:

    “Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations—wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.”
    —Edmund Burke (1729–1797)

    “Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.”
    —William Hazlitt (1778–1830)

    “Man is endogenous, and education is his unfolding. The aid we have from others is mechanical, compared with the discoveries of nature in us. What is thus learned is delightful in the doing, and the effect remains.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)