Grad

• grad

From Russian Град (Grad, “codename for a type of multiple rocket launcher”), from Russian град (grad, “hail”).

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹɑd/, /ˈɡɹæd/

Grad (plural Grads)

1. A type of Soviet artillery multiple rocket launcher, or a rocket fired by this.
   • 1989: Jane’s Defence Weekly, v 12, Coulsdon, UK: Jane’s, p 1050:

     It supplements the 220 mm BM-22 Uragan (‘Hurricane’) and 122 mm BM-21 Grad (‘Hail’) MRLs, already in service.

   • 1998: Field Artillery, Field Artillery Association (U.S.), p 7:

     The MRL systems Smerch, Uragan, and Grad are designed to destroy concentrations of personnel and various vehicles at distances up to 70 kilometers.

   • 2001: Olga Oliker, Russia’s Chechen Wars 1994–2000: Lessons from Urban Combat, Santa Monica, California: Rand, p 29:

     The Russians fought back with Grad rocket-launcher salvos and mortar attacks (they also made some use of armor).

   • 2009: Rockets from Gaza: Harm to Civilians from Palestinian Armed Groups’ Rocket Attacks, New York: Human Rights Watch, p 22:

     “[w]e saw Hamas come and put up rocket launchers and fire. We could tell they were Grads by the sound, which is louder and deeper than that of Qassams.”

• BM-21
• Katyusha

• darg, drag, gard

• IPA^(key): /ɡʁaːt/

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• Homophones: Grat, grad
• Rhymes: -aːt

Grad m (genitive Grads or Grades, plural Grade or Grad)

1. degree

   0 Grad Celsius (0°C) sind 273,15 Kelvin

• When used as a measuring unit (e.g. for temperature), the word always has the unchanged plural Grad: zwei Grad wärmer – "two degrees warmer"; einige Grad kühler – "some degrees cooler".
• When not used as a measuring unit, the plural form is Grade: Die soziale Ungleichheit hat bisher ungekannte Grade erreicht. – "Social inequality has reached degrees previously unknown." This usage is less common than in English.

• Grad Celsius
• Breitengrad
• Gradmesser
• Längengrad
• Steigerungsgrad
• Vergleichungsgrad

• Grad in Duden online

From grad.

• IPA^(key): /ɡrat/

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Grad m pers or f

1. A masculine surname​.
2. A feminine surname​.

Masculine surname:

The feminine surname is indeclinable.