PD

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

Places

• PD Draw, a bridge over the Passaic River
• Province of Padua, Italy (ISO 3166-2:IT)
• Port Dickson, a coastal city in Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia4ל

Art, entertainment, and media

Fictional entities

• Post Diaspora, a time frame in the Honorverse series of science fiction novels
• Princess Daisy, a Nintendo character

Music

• Parkway Drive, an Australian Metalcore band

Publications

• People's Democracy (newspaper), weekly organ of the Communist Party of India (Marxist)
• Principia Discordia, a holy text in Discordianism
• The Plain Dealer, Cleveland, Ohio, USA newspaper

Television

• Pushing Daisies, an American Broadcasting Company television show

Video games

• Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA, a rhythm game series developed by SEGA featuring Crypton Future Media's Vocaloid characters
• Perfect Dark (series), a series of video games that includes the following titles:

• Perfect Dark, the debut video game in the series
• Perfect Dark (Game Boy Color), the second video game in the series
• Perfect Dark (Xbox Live Arcade), the remake of the original game

• Pokémon Diamond and Pearl, fourth installments of Pokémon game

Computing and technology

• Pentium D, dual-core variant of Pentium 4
• Perfect Dark (P2P), a Japanese peer-to-peer file-sharing (P2P) application designed for use with Microsoft Windows
• Phase-change Dual, an optical media format
• Pumpe Düse, a Volkswagen Group name for Unit Injector diesel engine technology
• Pure Data the graphical audio-processing language

Economics and business

• Personal development, as used in the self-help and personal growth industry
• Personnel department, also known as Human Resources Department (HRD)
• Policy Deployment, used in Danaher Business Systems
• Probability of default, used in finance (Basel II)
• Professional degree, or first professional degree
• Professional development
• Price discrimination
• Program director

Enterprises

• Phelps Dodge, a former American mining company, now part of Freeport-McMoRan
• Polyphony Digital, developer of the Gran Turismo video game series
• Porter Airlines (IATA airline designator)

Law, government, and society

• Police department
• Preventive detention
• Property damage liability, in insurance
• Public defender
• Public domain

Medicine and biology

• Paleolithic diet, a diet based on presumed ancient diet
• Panic disorder
• Parkinson's disease, a degenerative neurological condition
• Pd test, the outcome of using a drop of para-phenylenediamine (also abbr. "Pd") to identify lichens
• PD-1, cell surface protein
• Pediatric dentistry
• Peritoneal dialysis
• Personality disorder
• Phenyldichloroarsine, a blister agent
• Physical Diagnosis, a course in Medical School
• Polydipsia
• Progressive disease, oncology term
• Psychotic depression
• Pupillary distance in optometry

Physical sciences

• Palladium (chemical element symbol)
• Partial discharge, an undesirable discharge phenomenon in high voltage dielectrics
• Photodiode
• Potential difference (voltage)

Political parties

• Democratic Party of Albania (Partia Demokratike)
• Democratic Party (Indonesia) (Partai Demokrat)
• Democratic Party (Italy) (Partito Democratico)
• Democratic Party (Romania) (Partidul Democrat)
• Democratic Party – demokraci.pl (Partia Demokratyczna – demokraci.pl), Poland
• Party of Democrats (Partito dei Democratici), a defunct political party in San Marino
• People's Democracy (Ireland), a defunct political organization in Ireland
• Progressive Democrats, a defunct political party in the Republic of Ireland

Professions

• Doctor of Pharmacy, abbreviation of PharmD
• Postdoctoral research position or course of study, also known as a "post-doc"
• Privatdozent, title/position especially in the German university
• Production designer, a profession in film or television

Other uses

• Axiom of projective determinacy
• Full stop or (Period, in American English), used in coded military communication (e.g., WWII)
• Peu difficile, a French climbing/mountaineering grade
• Point-defence, a prefix for weapons
• Production diary, a promotional video podcast

See also

• Pee Dee