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/Derivative)
  • 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"
  • Portable Information Device
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