ESD may refer to:

Science

  • ESD (gene), a human gene/enzyme
  • Electrostatic discharge, a sudden flow of electricity between two electrically charged objects
  • Electrostatic-sensitive device, any component which can be damaged by common static charges
  • Energy spectral density, a part of a function in statistical signal processing
  • Environmental secondary detector, a gaseous detection device used with environmental scanning electron microscopes
  • Equivalent spherical diameter, a diameter of a sphere of equivalent volume
  • Extreme subdwarf, a type of star

Medicine

  • End-systolic dimension, the diameter across a ventricle in the heart
  • Endoscopic submucosal dissection, a medical therapy with endoscopy

Education

  • Education for sustainable development, international learning methodology
  • Educational service district (disambiguation), regional education unit in some U.S. states
  • Episcopal School of Dallas, day school in Texas, U.S.
  • Evangelical School for the Deaf, in Luquillo, Puerto Rico

Government and law

  • Electronic services delivery, government services provided through the Internet or other electronic means
  • Empire State Development Corporation, an American public benefit umbrella organization
  • Employment Security Department, a Washington state unemployment agency
  • Examination support document, a submission to the United States Patent and Trademark Office

Technology

  • Electronic smoking device, a device that simulates the feeling of smoking
  • Electronic software distribution, delivery of digital media content
  • ESD format, a file format
  • Emergency shutdown, the stoppage of a process plant in certain hazardous conditions
  • Engineering Society of Detroit, a multi-disciplinary association in Michigan, U.S.
  • Enlightened Sound Daemon, audio software
  • Environmentally sustainable design, complying with the principles of ecological sustainability in the design of objects and buildings

Transport

  • Elmstead Woods railway station (station code), in London, England
  • Esen Air (ICAO airline designator), a defunct airline from Kyrgyzstan
  • Essendon railway station, Melbourne
  • A US Navy hull classification symbol: Expeditionary transfer dock (ESD)
  • Orcas Island Airport (IATA code), Eastsound on Orcas Island, Washington, United States

Other uses

  • East Side Digital Records, an American record label
  • Eta Sigma Delta, an American honor society