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PD, P.D., or Pd may refer to:
Arts and media
- People's Democracy (newspaper), weekly organ of the Communist Party of India (Marxist)
- The Plain Dealer, a Cleveland, Ohio, US newspaper
- Post Diaspora, a time frame in the Honorverse series of science fiction novels
- Principia Discordia, a holy text in Discordianism
- Production designer, a profession in film or television
- Production diary, a promotional video podcast
Economics and business
- Personnel department, also known as Human Resources Department (HRD)
- Probability of default, used in finance (Basel II)
- Professional degree, or first professional degree
- Professional development
- Price discrimination, a microeconomic pricing strategy
- Program director, in service industries
Enterprises
- Phelps Dodge, a former American mining company, now part of Freeport-McMoRan
- Polyphony Digital, developer of the Gran Turismo video game series
- Porter Airlines (IATA airline designator)
Government and law
- Police department
- Preventive detention
- Property damage liability, in insurance
- Public defender
- Public domain
Places
- PD Draw, a bridge over the Passaic River
- Province of Padua, Italy (ISO 3166-2:IT)
- Port Dickson, a coastal city in Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia
Political parties
- Democratic Party of Albania (Partia Demokratike)
- Democratic Party (Indonesia) (Partai Demokrat)
- Democratic Party (Italy) (Partito Democratico)
- Democratic Party (Malta) (Partit Demokratiku)
- Democratic Party (Romania) (Partidul Democrat)
- Democratic Party – demokraci.pl (Partia Demokratyczna – demokraci.pl), Poland
- Party of Democrats (Partito dei Democratici), a defunct political party in San Marino
- People's Democracy (Ireland), a defunct political organization in Ireland
- Progressive Democrats, a defunct political party in the Republic of Ireland
Professions
- Doctor of Pharmacy, also abbreviated PharmD
- Postdoctoral research position or course of study, also known as a "post-doc"
- Privatdozent, a title or position especially in German universities
- Production designer, a profession in film or television
Science, technology, and mathematics
Biology and medicine
Disorders and symptoms
- Panic disorder, a condition with excessive fear or anxiety
- Parkinson's disease, a degenerative neurological condition
- Paroxysmal dyskinesia, a group of movement disorders
- Personality disorder, any of various psychiatric problems
- Polydipsia, excessive thirst
- Progressive disease, in oncology
- Psychotic depression
Medical techniques and specialties
- Pd test, the outcome of using a drop of para-phenylenediamine (also abbr. "Pd") to identify lichens
- Pediatric dentistry, mouth health care and tooth repair for children
- Peritoneal dialysis, a way to filter the blood when the kidneys are not working well
- Pharmacodynamics, the study of how a drug affects an organism
- Physical diagnosis, the aspects of diagnosis based on the physical examination
Other uses in biology and medicine
- PD-1, a cell surface receptor protein
- Paleolithic diet, a diet based on presumed ancient diets
- Phenyldichloroarsine, a blister agent
- Pupillary distance, in optometry
Computing and Electronics
- Pentium D, a dual-core variant of the Pentium 4 processor
- Perfect Dark (P2P), a Japanese peer-to-peer file-sharing (P2P) application designed for use with Microsoft Windows
- Phase-change Dual, an optical media format
- Pure Data the graphical audio-processing language
- Photodiode, a semiconductor device that converts light into current
Other uses in science, technology, and mathematics
- Palladium, a chemical element with symbol Pd
- Partial discharge, an undesirable discharge phenomenon in high voltage dielectrics
- Point-defence, a category of weapons
- Potential difference, or voltage
- Axiom of projective determinacy, in mathematical logic
- Pumpe Düse, a Volkswagen Group name for Unit Injector diesel engine technology
Other uses
- Full stop (or period, in American English), used in coded military communications
- Personal development, as used in the self-help and personal growth fields
- Peu difficile, a French climbing/mountaineering grade
See also
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