English

Etymology

Noun

1. (with definite article) The Witwatersrand, a gold-mining geographic area also known as the Reef in the province of Gauteng, South Africa, of which the principal city is Johannesburg.

Related terms

• reef

See also

• rand
• rant

German

Etymology

Noun

1. edge, brink, rim.
2. ledge, margin.

Places

• 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, inter alia, the town of Randsburg, California
• The Witwatersrand, a ridge that runs through Gauteng, South Africa, which includes the East Rand and West Rand

People

• Ayn Rand, American writer and philosopher
• Austin L. Rand, Canadian zoologist
• Ivan Rand, Supreme Court of Canada justice who introduced the Rand formula
• James Rand, Jr., American industrialist and president of Remington Rand
• Mary Rand, British athlete and Olympic champion
• Paul Rand, American graphic designer
• Rose Rand, Logician and Philosopher, member of the Vienna Circle
• Sally Rand, actor and dancer
• Shuli Rand and Michal Batsheva Rand, husband and wife, Israeli actors
• William H. Rand, founder of Rand McNally

Fictional characters

• Rand al'Thor, the main character in Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time fantasy fiction series
• Rand (Robotech), a character from the fictional Third Robotech War
• Atton Rand, a character from Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II
• Janice Rand, a character in the Star Trek universe
• Iron Fist (comics) (Daniel Rand), a Marvel Comics character

Companies and organizations

• The RAND Corporation, an American think tank
• The Ayn Rand Institute, an American think tank
• Remington Rand, an American computer firm and general manufacturer
• Sperry Rand, an American equipment and electronics company
• Ingersoll-Rand, a diversified American industrial firm
• Rand McNally, an American map publisher and printer

Abbreviation or acronym

• In computer science, any of a number of pseudorandom number generator functions
• Reasonable and Non Discriminatory Licensing, a type of licensing used during a standardisation process

Other uses

• South African rand, the national currency of South Africa (abbreviation: R, ISO-4217-Code: ZAR), the Rand is also wdely accepted as currency in Namibia
• Rand index, a technique for measuring the similarity between two data clusters
• Rand formula, a formula in Canadian labor law

See also

• James Randi, American stage magician and skeptic
• Krugerrand, a South African gold coin
• Randlord, a term used to denote the entrepreneurs who controlled the diamond and gold mining industries in South Africa in its pioneer phase