Initialism of Investigational New Drug application.
"The station's logo features a green circle, indicating it is an ind network rather than ABC or NBC."
Abbreviation of independent., especially where the alternatives are initialisms (e.g., for television networks).
In plain English: An ind is an informal shortening of the word index used to refer to a list at the back of a book that helps you find specific topics quickly.
"He let his dog out to play in the ind between the two houses."
India; the East.
"The package was shipped to IN instead of NY."
Abbreviation of Indiana.
The word ind comes from the Old English īnd, which was borrowed from the Germanic root meaning "east." This term originally referred to the direction before being associated with the region of India through later linguistic shifts.