RAND

n. band, strap; unit of currency in South Africa

The RAND Corporation is a nonprofit global policy think tank first formed to offer research and analysis to the United States armed forces. The organization has since expanded to working with other governments, private foundations, international organizations, and commercial organizations. It is known for rigorous, often-quantitative, and non-partisan analysis and policy recommendations.
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Rand may refer to a number of places, people, organizations, and acronyms.Places named Rand include:Rand, New South Wales, a small town in AustraliaRand, Lincolnshire, a small village in Lincolnshire, EnglandRand, 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 RandsburgThe Witwatersrand, a ridge that runs through Gauteng, South Africa, which includes the East Rand and West Rand
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"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" is a 35-letter pangram (a phrase that uses all the letters of the alphabet) that has been used to test typewriters and computer keyboards because it is nicely coherent and short. It was known in the late 19th century, and used in Baden-Powell's book Scouting for Boys (1908) as a practice sentence for signalling. In later years, the phrase was popularized by Western Union and the Telephone Company to test Telex/TWX data communication equipment for accuracy and reliability. It was often used for testing the teletype services (a procedure known as "foxing") when these machines were still used. In the age of computers, it is often used as a sample text in font selection contexts. Typing =rand (1, 1) in Microsoft Word 2003 or earlier runs the phrase for the purpose of creating sample sentences and paragraphs, however it is estimated that this relates to the origin of the phrase as a use in testing keyboards.
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Noun
1. United States writer (born in Russia) noted for her polemical novels and political conservativism (1905-1982)
(synonym) Ayn Rand
(hypernym) writer, author
2. a rocky region in the southern Transvaal in northeastern South Africa; contains rich gold deposits and coal and manganese
(synonym) Witwatersrand, Reef
(hypernym) region, part
(part-holonym) Transvaal

Noun
1. the basic unit of money in South Africa; equal to 100 cents
(hypernym) South African monetary unit
(part-meronym) cent

n. edge, border, boundary; rand, unit of currency in South Africa

n. rand, band, strap