CD, or compact disc, is a thin plastic silvery disc for audio recordings.

CD or cd may also refer to:

Science and technology

Astronomy and cosmology

  • Cordoba Durchmusterung, a star catalog of the southern sky
  • Cosmological decade or CÐ, a unit of time
  • Type-cD galaxy, a galaxy morphology classification

Biology, ecology, and medicine

  • Coeliac disease, long term autoimmune disorder causing intolerance to gluten
  • Conduct disorder, a psychological disorder
  • Conservation Dependent or LR/cd, an IUCN category
  • Cluster of differentiation, a protocol used for the identification of cell surface molecules on white blood cells
  • Crohn's disease
  • Chlordane
  • Communicable disease

Computing

  • CD-ROM, compact disc technology applied for use in computer data
  • cd (command), a shell command to change the current working directory
  • continuous delivery, a software development design practice
  • continuous deployment, a software development design practice
  • collision detection, CSMA/CD

Mathematics

  • cd (elliptic function), one of Jacobi's elliptic functions

Other uses in science and technology

  • Cadmium, symbol Cd, a chemical element
  • Candela or cd, a unit of light intensity
  • -CD, the North American call sign suffix for Class A low-power television stations operating with digital signals
  • Circular dichroism, a form of spectroscopy
  • Critical Dimension, the minimum feature size that a projection system can print in photolithography
  • Drag coefficient or cd, a dimensionless quantity used to quantify the drag of an object in a fluid
  • Cluster decay, a rare mode of nuclear decay

Businesses and organizations

Government, military, and political

  • Canadian Forces' Decoration, by post-nominal letters
  • Centre Democrats (Denmark), a Danish former political party
  • Centre Democrats (Netherlands), a former political party of the Netherlands
  • Centro Democratico, a political party in Italy
  • Christian democracy, a political ideology
  • Citizen's dividend, proposed policy based upon the Georgist principle that the natural world is the common property of all people
  • Civil defense, an effort to protect the citizens of a state from military attack and natural disasters
  • Community of Democracies, an intergovernmental organization of democracies and democratizing countries
  • Conference on Disarmament, an international forum that negotiates multilateral arms control and disarmament agreements
  • Corps Diplomatique, the collective body of foreign diplomats accredited to a particular country or body
  • FBI Counterintelligence Division, the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation's division responsible for investigating espionage

Other business and organizations

  • Certificate of deposit, a bank account in the United States with a fixed maturity date
  • České dráhy or ČD, a railway operator of the Czech Republic
  • Commander of the Order of Distinction, a rank in the Jamaican Orders of Societies of Honour

Places

  • Central District, Seattle, a district in Seattle
  • Democratic Republic of the Congo, by ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code
  • .cd, the Internet domain of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • cd., abbreviation for caddesi, street, in Turkish

Transport

  • Chandrapur railway station (Station code: CD), Maharashtra, India
  • Corendon Dutch Airlines (IATA code)

Other uses

  • 400 (number), written CD in Roman numerals
  • 205 (number), written CD in hexadecimal
  • AD 400 (CD), a year of the Common Era
  • C.D (Criminal or Devil), a 2024 Indian psychological thriller film
  • "CD", a song by T2 (band)
  • cd, for cord (unit) of volume of wood
  • Geely CD, a coupe automobile made by Geely Automobile
  • Cairo Damascus or Damascus Document, a text found among the Dead Sea Scrolls
  • Committee Draft, a status in the International Organization for Standardization
  • Companion dog (title), a title offered to dogs by the American Kennel Club for dog obedience
  • Cross-dressing, the act of wearing clothing associated with the opposite sex
  • Sega CD, also known as the Sega Mega-CD, a CD-ROM accessory and format for the Sega Genesis produced by Sega as part of the fourth generation of video game consoles
  • Sonic CD, a 1993 platform game developed and published by Sega for the Sega CD
  • Bitter CD, a luxury hatchback coupé
  • Cúcuta Deportivo, a Colombian football club

See also

  • CDS (disambiguation)
  • CeeDee (disambiguation)
  • C&D (disambiguation)