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BD, Bd or bd may refer to:

In arts and entertainment

  • B. D. (Doonesbury), a major character in the Doonesbury comic strip
  • Bande dessinée (or "bédé"), a French term for comics
  • Bass drum, in sheet music notation
  • Brahe Djäknar, a Finnish choir
  • Broder Daniel, a Swedish indie pop band
  • Ben Drowned, a web serial and web series, focused on the character of the same name
  • ВD, shorthand name for the Russian gaming magazine, Velikij Drakon, where the "В" character is actually the Russian letter "ve".
  • Bette Davis's production company

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In business

Business / Technology

  • B&D Australia, manufacturing company
  • Big data, a marketing term for technology of large data sets
  • Broker-dealer
  • Business day, a day of the week on which business is conducted
  • Business development, techniques aimed at attracting customers and penetrating markets
  • Business directory, a website or printed listing of information which lists all businesses within some category

Businesses

  • Bad Dragon, an American manufacturer of fantasy-themed sex toys
  • Becton Dickinson (BD.com), an American manufacturer of medical supplies
  • BMI (airline), or British Midland Airways (IATA airline code BD until 2012)
  • Building Design, a British architectural magazine
  • Cambodia Bayon Airlines (IATA airline code BD from 2014)

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Places

  • Bangladesh, (ISO 3166-1 country code BD)
  • .bd, the country top-level domain for Bangladesh
  • BD postcode area, UK, for Bradford, West Yorkshire, and the surrounding area
  • Bermuda, where "BD" is the FIPS PUB 10-4 territory code and obsolete NATO country code
  • Brunei Darussalam, where "BD" is the World Meteorological Organization country code
  • Burundi, LOC MARC code

In science and technology

In computing

  • Baud (Bd), an information unit
  • %BD, the URL encoded version of the one half (½) symbol
  • Big data, data sets that are so large or complex that traditional data processing applications are inadequate
  • 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, a fungus that causes the fatal amphibian disease chytridiomycosis
  • BD butterfly, Callicore cynosura
  • Bipolar disorder, a mood disorder
  • "Bis die" (Latin for "twice a day"; also Bid (Medical): "bis in diem") an indication that a medication needs to be taken twice a day

Other uses in science and technology

  • Bonner Durchmusterung, a 19th-century star catalog

Other uses

  • Bachelor of Divinity, an academic degree
  • Bajrang Dal, an Indian militant Hindutva organization
  • Bandung railway station, West Java, Indonesia (station code: BD)
  • Battle Dress, a British military uniform
  • Black Disciples, a black street gang based in Chicago, United States
  • Bloor-Danforth, a subway line in Toronto, Canada
  • Bondage (BDSM) and Discipline (BDSM), in sexual role-play
  • Bündnis Deutschland, a minor German political party
  • Badnera Junction railway station (station code: BD), Maharashtra, India
  • Bengkulu (vehicle registration prefix BD)