BD
BD, Bd or bd may refer to:
In Business and Technology
- Business Directory - a website or printed listing of information which lists all businesses within some category
- Big Data - data sets that are so large or complex that traditional data processing applications are inadequate
- Business Development, techniques aimed at attracting customers and penetrating markets
- Business Day - every official working day of the week
In science and technology
- Bonner Durchmusterung, an important 19th Century star catalog
In computing
- Baud (Bd), an information unit
- %BD, the Url Encoded version of the one half (½) symbol
- Blu-ray Disc, a high density blue laser optical disc format, or the successor of DVD
- BD+, a component of the Blu-ray Disc Digital Rights Management system
In biology and medicine
- Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, the fungus that causes the fatal amphibian disease Chytridiomycosis
- BD Butterfly, Callicore cynosura
- Bipolar disorder, a mood disorder
- "Bis die" (Latin for 'twice a day'), a medication needed to be taken twice in a day (also BID: "Bis in diem")
Arts and entertainment
- B. D. (Doonesbury), a major character in the Doonesbury comic strip
- Bande dessinée (or "bédé"), a French term for comics
- Bravely Default, a Japanese video game made by Square Enix as a Final Fantasy spinoff.
- Broder Daniel, a Swedish indie pop band
- Black Dynamite, a 2009 American spoof of blaxploitation films
- ВD, shorthand name for the Russian gaming magazine, Velikij Drakon, where the "В" character is actually the Russian letter "ve".
Places
- Bangladesh, where "BD" is the ISO 3166-1 2-letter country code
- .bd, the country top-level domain for Bangladesh
- Bermuda, where "BD" is the FIPS PUB 10-4 territory code and obsolete NATO country code
- BD postcode area for Bradford, West Yorkshire, and the surrounding area
- Brunei Darussalam, where "BD" is the World Meteorological Organization country code
Businesses and organizations
- Becton Dickinson, an American manufacturer of medical supplies
- BD's Mongolian Barbeque, an American restaurant chain
- Bloor-Danforth, a subway line in Toronto, Canada
- BMI (airline), IATA airline designator for British Midland Airways
- Cambodia Bayon Airlines, IATA airline code
- Building Design, a British architectural magazine
Other uses
- Bachelor of Divinity, an academic degree
- Battle Dress, a British military uniform
- Bass Drum, in sheet music notation
- Bondage (BDSM) and Discipline (BDSM), in sexual role-play
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