CID

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As an acronym CID can refer to (in alphabetical order):

• Caller ID in telephone systems
• Card Identification Number, a security-feature on American Express credit cards
• charge-injection device, a light-sensor based on photodiodes
• Central Institute for the Deaf, an oral deaf school located in St. Louis, Missouri
• Certified Interconnect Designer, a certification for printed circuit-board designers
• Collision-induced dissociation, a mass spectrometry technique for fragmenting gas phase ions
• Combat Identification the process of characterizing military objects
• The Committee of Imperial Defence, formed in 1904 and responsible for directing British military strategy.
• Content-ID, a string employed to label a type of URI in HTML — often used when embedding <img> images in email
• The Conseil International de la Dance (English: International Dance Council)
• Controlled Impact Demonstration, a NASA/FAA test of airplane-crash consequences culminating in 1984
• The Criminal Investigation Department within United Kingdom and Commonwealth police-forces
• The Criminal Investigation Division of the United States Army and of the United States Marine Corps
• Cubic-inch displacement in automobiles
• CID fonts, a set of PostScript fonts
• The Guru Dutt classic film C.I.D. from 1955
• C.I.D., an Indian television serial
• One of numerous characters named "Cid" appearing in the Final Fantasy series. There is traditionally one character in every game by the name of Cid, and he is often associated with an airship.

The word CID can also refer to:

• slang for LSD
• The Eastern Iowa Airport in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.