Rand
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Rand may refer to:
- Rand (currency), the national currency of South Africa.
- The Witwatersrand (literally white water ridge), a ridge that runs through the gold-producing area of Gauteng province, South Africa, which includes Johannesburg as well as:
- Rand, New South Wales, a small town in Australia
- Rand, Lincolnshire, a small village in Lincolnshire, England
- Rand, Colorado, a small unincorporated community in Jackson County, Colorado, U.S.
- Rand Mining District, an area in Kern County, California, containing the towns of Randsburg, Johannesburg, and Red Mountain.
- Rand index, a technique for measuring the similarity between two data clusters
People named Rand include:
- Ayn Rand, American writer
- Austin L. Rand, Canadian zoologist
- Paul Rand, American graphic designer
- Rand al'Thor, the main character in Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time fantasy fiction series
- a character from the fictional Third Robotech War
- Ivan Rand, Supreme Court of Canada justice who introduced the Rand formula in labor law
Companies or organizations named Rand include:
- The RAND Corporation, an American think-tank
- Remington Rand, an American computer firm and general manufacturer
- Ingersoll-Rand, a diversified American industrial firm
RAND or Rand is also used as an abbreviation or acronym for:
- Reasonable and Non Discriminatory Licensing
- any of a number of pseudorandom number generator functions