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CDS, CDs, Cds, etc. may refer to:
Finance
- Certificates of deposit (CDs)
- Counterfeit Deterrence System, developed by the Central Bank Counterfeit Deterrence Group
- Credit default swap (CDS), a type of credit derivative
Military
- Chief Defence Scientist, the head of the Australian Defence Science & Technology
- Chief of the Defence Staff (disambiguation)
- Comprehensive Display System, a World War II-era programme by the British Royal Navy to track warships
- South American Defense Council (Consejo de Defensa Sudamericano), of the Union of South American Nations
Organizations
- Canadian Depository for Securities
- Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg, a French astronomical data center
- Centre for Development Studies, in India
- Complete Discovery Source, a US e-discovery services and software company
- Commercial Data Systems, a Canadian software publisher
- Conference of Drama Schools, now part of Drama UK
- Cooperative Development Services, a non-profit organization engaged in cooperative development in the US
- Sinaloa Cartel (Spanish: Cártel de Sinaloa)
Politics
- Campaign for Democratic Socialism, a former group within the British Labour Party; forerunner to the Social Democratic Party
- Centre des démocrates sociaux (Centre of Social Democrats), a French political party; see
- CDS – People's Party (Centro Democrático e Social – Partido Popular), a Portuguese political party
- Centro Democrático y Social (Democratic and Social Centre), a former Spanish political party
- Convention démocratique et sociale-Rahama (Democratic and Social Convention), a political party in Niger
Science
- Cadmium sulfide (CdS), an inorganic compound
- Chromatography data system, software collecting and analyzing chromatographic results
- Coding DNA sequence, that portion of a gene's DNA or RNA, composed of exons, that codes for protein
- Correlated double sampling, a method to measure electrical values such as voltages or currents that allows removing an undesired offset
Technology
- Compact Discs (CDs)
- CD single (CDS), a music single in the form of a standard size compact disc
- Cockpit display system
- Cross-domain solution, processes that transfer data between security domains
- Cinema Digital Sound, a multi-channel surround sound format used for theatrical films in the early 1990s
Other uses
- Community day school, a school system used in the state of California, US
- Cul de Sac (comic strip), a comic strip created by Richard Thompson
- Child-directed speech, or baby talk
- Condensed distillers solubles, also referred to as distillers grains, a cereal byproduct of the distillation process
- Container delivery system, a system used for airdrops
- Controlled/dangerous substance, as defined by the Controlled Substances Act
See also
- Clinical decision support (CDSS), software to assist clinical diagnostic and therapeutic decision-making