BFD

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BFD may refer to:

Agencies

Most US fire departments use a three letter acronym ending in "FD", thus many cities beginning with the letter "B" will have the acronym BFD for their fire departments. Some prominent examples in larger cities would include:

• Bakersfield Fire Department in Bakersfield, California
• Boston Fire Department in Boston, Massachusetts
• Buffalo Fire Department in Buffalo, New York

Computing

• Bidirectional Forwarding Detection, a network protocol used to detect faults between devices
• Binary File Descriptor library, the GNU Project's main mechanism for the portable manipulation of object files in a variety of formats
• Binary Format Description language, an extension of XSIL
• A virtual music instrument meant to simulate a drumset, released by FXpansion

Media

• Benelux Film Distributors, a joint venture of various independent film distributors
• BFD or Big Fucking Day, an annual alternative music festival hosted by the radio station Live 105

Places

• Bakersfield (Amtrak station), California (Amtrak station code)
• Bradford Regional Airport in Bradford, Pennsylvania (IATA airport code)

Other

• Back focal direction in optics
• Boiler feedwater pump, a type of pump used to pump feedwater into a steam boiler
• Budgerigar fledgling disease (polyomavirus), a virus frequently fatal to caged birds
• Bund Freier Demokraten, the German acronym for Association of Free Democrats
• Slang, big fucking deal