| Acronym | Definition |
|---|
| CARD | Cardinal |
| CARD | Center for Agricultural and Rural Development |
| CARD | Center for Animal Resources and Development (Japan: Kumamoto University) |
| CARD | Caspase Recruitment Domain |
| CARD | Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders (Boston University) |
| CARD | Center for Autism and Related Disabilities |
| CARD | Campaign against Racial Discrimination (1964-1967; UK) |
| CARD | Collaborating Agencies Responding to Disasters (California) |
| CARD | Candidate Access Router Discovery |
| CARD | Candidate Access Router Discovery (IANA) |
| CARD | Caspase Recruitment Domain-Containing Protein |
| CARD | Caspase Activation and Recruitment Domain |
| CARD | Center for Autism and Related Disorders, Inc. |
| CARD | Cost Analysis Requirements Document |
| CARD | Citizens Against Radioactive Dumping |
| CARD | Contact-Based Architecture for Resource Discovery |
| CARD | Civil Aviation Research and Development |
| CARD | Center for Agricultural Research and Development (various countries) |
| CARD | Computerized Anthropometric Research and Design |
| CARD | Casinos Austria Research & Development |
| CARD | Citizens Advocating Responsible Development |
| CARD | Consolidated Admissions and Reporting Directive |
| CARD | Catalog of Approved Requirements Documents |
| CARD | Cardiac Automatic Resuscitative Device (cardiology) |
| CARD | Computer Aided Remote Driving |
| CARD | Conceptual and Reasoning Difficulties |
| CARD | Center for Aquaculture Research and Development (Sarasota, Florida) |
| CARD | Cost Analysis Requirement Description |
| CARD | Compressed Alternate Reality Data (Phantasy Star gaming) |
| CARD | Conventional Armaments Review Document |
| CARD | Cooperative Agricultural and Rural Development Bank (India) |
| CARD | Channel Allocation and Routing Data |
| CARD | Constellation Architecture Requirements Document (NASA) |
| CARD | Computer-Aided Real-time Design |
| CARD | Communicators for Agricultural and Rural Development (Philippines) |
| CARD | Carrot Association for Research and Development |
| CARD | Coastal and Arctic Research Division |
| CARD | Corrective Action, Repair & Diagnosis |
| CARD | Communauté d'Agglomération de la Région Dieppoise (French: Agglomeration Community of the Dieppe Region; Dieppe, France) |
| CARD | Community Action and Research for Development (India) |