PID

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PID stands for a number of things, including:

• Packet ID, used to identify audio/video streams in DVB "Digital Video Broadcasting"
• Pathways Into Darkness, a 1993 video game by Bungie Studios
• Paul Is Dead, a rumor in the 1960s that led fans to believe that Paul McCartney was actually dead
• Pelvic inflammatory disease, an infection of the female uterus, fallopian tubes, and/or ovaries
• Personal Integrating/Indicating Dosemeter used to indicate amount of radiation a person has received
• Photo Ionization Detector
• Physician Induced Demand
• Pid is a nick-name, frequently a short form of Stupid
• Piping and instrumentation diagram, a technical diagram showing all (or a part of) pipelines, instruments, valves etc. of a process plant
• PID controller, a control concept used in automation. (Proportional/Integral/Derviative)
• Police Intelligence Department, a staff department of the Singapore Police Force
• Political Intelligence Department, a British clandestine body created to produce and disseminate propaganda during WWII
• Primary immune deficiency
• Principal ideal domain, in abstract algebra, an integral domain in which every ideal is principal
• Process identifier, a number used by Unix kernels and Windows operating systems to identify a process
• Project Information Document
• Project Initiation Document defines all major aspects of the project and forms the basis for its management and the assessment of overall success
• Prolapsed intervertebral disc, commonly called a "herniated disc"