PD

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PD, P.D., or Pd may refer to...

Democratic parties:

• Partai Demokrat of Indonesia
• Partia Demokratike, Albania
• Partidul Democrat of Romania
• Partito Democratico, Partito Democratico (Pd), Italy.
• People's Democracy, a defunct political organization in Ireland
• Progressive Democrats, a political party in the Republic of Ireland

Physical sciences:

• Palladium, symbol for the chemical element.
• Partial discharge, an undesirable discharge phenomenon in high voltage dielectrics
• Photodiode
• Potential Difference

Medicine:

• Parkinson's disease, a degenerative neurological condition
• Peritoneal dialysis
• Personality Disorder(s)
• Progressive Disease, Oncology-related term
• Pupillary Distance in Optometry

Computer programs:

• Perfect Dark (P2P), a Japanese peer-to-peer file-sharing (P2P) application designed for use with Microsoft Windows
• Pure Data the graphical audio-processing language

Video games:

• Perfect Dark (series), a series of video games that includes the following titles:

• Perfect Dark, the first video game in the series for the Nintendo 64
• Perfect Dark (Game Boy Color)

• Pokémon Diamond

Math and computer science:

• Prisoner's Dilemma
• Problem Determination (usually in Computing)
• Projective determinacy, a proposition in set theory

Places:

• Padua, Italy (ISO 3166-2:IT)

Unsorted:

• Pass Deflection, in American football, when a pass is batted down or blocked by a defensive player.
• Period (punctuation), as used in coded military communication (e.g., WWII)
• Personal development, as used in the self development and personal growth industry
• Peu difficile, a French climbing/mountaineering grade
• Phase-change Dual, an optical media format
• Phelps Dodge a former mining company, now part of Freeport-McMoRan.
• Plain Dealer, name of the newspaper based in Cleveland, U.S.
• Point Defense as a prefix for weapons
• Police department
• Porter Airlines IATA code
• Post diaspora, in the Honorverse series of novels
• Preventive Detention
• The Principia Discordia, a holy text in Discordianism
• Private docent, title/position especially in the German university
• Probability of Default, used in finance (Basel II)
• Production diary
• Professional Degree
• Program director
• Public defender
• Public domain
• Pushing Daisies, a television show (premiered 2007) on American Broadcasting Company