PD

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

PD may refer to:

• Palladium, symbol for the chemical element.
• Parkinson's disease, a degenerative neurological condition
• Partai Demokrat of Indonesia
• Partial discharge, an undesirable discharge phenomenon in high voltage dielectrics
• Pass Deflection, in football, when a pass is batten down or blocked by a defensive player.
• Partidul Democrat of Romania
• People's Democracy, a political organization
• Perfect Dark, a video game
• Peritoneal dialysis
• Peu difficile, a French climbing/mountaineering grade
• Phase-change Dual, an optical media format
• Photodiode
• Photon Drop, a rare item in the video game Phantasy Star Online.
• Plain Dealer, name of the newspaper published in Cleveland, U.S., and other cities
• point decimal
• Police department
• Poolday (a Counter-Strike map)
• Porter Airlines IATA code
• Potential Difference
• Potsdam Devil
• Preventive Detention
• Prisoner's Dilemma
• Privatdozent, title/position especially in the German university
• Probability of Default, used in finance (Basel II)
• Problem Determination (usually in Computing)
• Production Diary'
• Professional Degree
• Program director
• Progressive Democrats, a political party in the Republic of Ireland
• Progressive Disease, a term concerning the outcome of oncological patients
• Projective determinacy, a proposition in set theory
• A prefix for weapons demarking them as point defense weapons
• Public defender
• Public domain
• Pupillary Distance in Optometry
• Pure Data the graphical programming language
• Province of Padua, Italy (ISO 3166-2:IT)
• Period (punctuation), as used in coded military communication (e.g., WWII)