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Rod, Ród, Rőd, Rød, Röd, ROD, or R.O.D. may refer to:
Devices
- Birch rod, made out of twigs from birch or other trees for corporal punishment
- Connecting rod, in an internal combustion engine
- Control rod, used to control the rate of fission in a nuclear reactor
- Divining rod, two rods believed by some to find water in a practice known as dowsing
- Slang for firearm
- Fishing rod, a tool used to catch fish, like a long pole with a hook on the end
- Lightning rod, a conductor on top of a building to protect the building in the event of lightning by taking the charge harmlessly to earth
- Measuring rod, a kind of ruler
- Switch (corporal punishment), a piece of wood as used as a staff or for corporal punishment, or a bundle of such switches
- Truss rod, a steel part inside a guitar neck used for its tension adjustment
Media
- Read or Die, a Japanese anime and manga
- Read or Die (OVA), an original video animation based on the manga
- Read or Dream, a manga set in the Read or Die universe
- R.O.D the TV, a 26-episode anime series
- Röd, a 2009 album by Swedish band Kent
- Rod (Avenue Q), a character in the stage musical Avenue Q
- "R.O.D.", a 2013 song by Korean rapper G-Dragon featured on his second studio album Coup D'Etat
People
Places
- Ród, a village in Tilişca Commune, Sibiu County, Romania
- Rød (disambiguation), several populated places in Norway
- Rőd, Aiton, from the Hungarian name for Rediu, a village in Aiton Commune, Cluj County, Romania
- Rod, California, a former settlement in Kern County
- Rod River, a tributary of the Apold River in Romania
Science and technology
- Cuisenaire rods, to teach children arithmetics
- Rod (geometry), a three-dimensional, solid (filled) cylinder
- Rod (optics), tricks of light in cameras believed by some to be alien life
- Rod (unit), an Imperial unit of length, also known as the pole or perch
- Rod cell, a cell found in the retina that is sensitive to light/dark (black/white)
- Rod-shaped bacteria, in bacterial morphology, the common name for all bacilli, particularly those of the genus Bacillus
- Real-time outbreak and disease surveillance (RODS)
Other uses
- Railway Operating Division, a division of the British Army's Royal Engineers
- Record of Decision, a formal decision document issued by the United States government
- Rod (god), a Slavic creator god
- Rods (Tarot Suit)
- Roughly Obsess and Destroy, a professional wrestling stable
See also
- All pages beginning with "Rod"
- All pages with titles containing Rod
- Bar stock, a common form of raw purified metal, used by industry to manufacture metal parts and products
- Dowel, a solid cylindrical rod, usually made of wood, plastic or metal
- Hot rod, often also referred to as 'rod'
- Hrod (disambiguation)
- Pole (disambiguation)
- Rebar, a common steel bar commonly used as a tensioning device in reinforced concrete and reinforced masonry structures
- Rodd, a surname
- Rood, an old English unit equal to quarter an acre
- Stick (disambiguation), any long object
- Structural steel, formed with a specific shape and standards of chemical composition and mechanical properties
- Strut, a structural component designed to resist longitudinal compression
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