CCD

CCD can stand for:

Science

• Carbonate compensation depth, a property of oceans
• Colony collapse disorder, a phenomenon involving the abrupt disappearance of the worker bees in a beehive or Western honey bee colony
• centicandela (ccd), an SI unit of luminous intensity denoting one hundredth of a candela.

Charge- Coupled device, it is a sensor technology used for camera manufacturing

Technology

• Charge-coupled device, an electronic light sensor used in digital cameras
• .ccd, the filename extension for CloneCD's CD image file
• See Closed captioning for Closed Caption Display, a technology for displaying text information embedded in video signals
• Central composite design, an experimental design in response surface methodology for building a second order model for a response variable without a complete three level factorial
• Air-independent propulsion aka Closed cycle diesel engines, propulsion used on diesel submarines
• Computacenter Distribution, the distribution arm of Computacenter PLC.
• Continuous Collision Detection, especially in Rigid body dynamics.

Medical

• Caput-collum-diaphyseal angle, the angle between the neck and the shaft of the femur in the hip
• Cleidocranial dysostosis, a genetic abnormality in humans
• Central core disease, a rare neuromuscular disorder
• Congenital chloride diarrhea, a rare disorder in babies
• Continuity of Care Document, an XML-based markup standard for patient medical document exchange

Education

• Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, religious education programs of the Catholic Church normally designed for children, originated in Italy
• Community College of Denver, a community college with six campuses around Denver, USA
• Cincinnati Country Day School, a non-parochial, private school in Indian Hill, USA

Parties

• Christian Democratic Centre, a late Italian political party, known as Centro Cristiano Democratico in Italian.

NGOs

• Christian Care Foundation for Children with Disabilities, an NGO in Thailand
• Council for a Community of Democracies, an NGO in the USA
• Canadian Coalition for Democracies, a non-governmental advocacy organisation in Canada

Other

• Café Coffee Day, a chain of coffee shops in India
• Census county division, a term used by the United States Census Bureau
• Centre Counter Defence, also known as the Scandinavian Defense, a chess opening
• Colorado Springs and Cripple Creek District Railway
• Convention Centre Dublin - A convention centre on the Dublin Docklands.