HD may refer to:

Business

  • H-D or Harley-Davidson, a motorcycle manufacturer
  • The Home Depot, NYSE stock symbol: HD

Chemistry

  • Hydrogen deuteride, a diatomic compound of hydrogen and deuterium
  • Mustard gas

Codes

  • Air Do, formerly Hokkaido International Airlines, IATA designator
  • HD postcode area, covering Huddersfield, Brighouse and Holmfirth in England, UK
  • Heidelberg's vehicle registration plate code
  • Hunedoara County (Romania)'s ISO 3166 code

Medicine

  • Hansen's disease or leprosy
  • Hirschsprung's disease, a disorder of the abdomen
  • Huntington's disease, a genetic disorder affecting the central nervous system
  • HD (gene) or huntingtin, the IT15 gene, which codes for the huntingtin protein

People

  • H.D. or Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961), American poet and novelist

Other uses

  • Helsingborgs Dagblad, a Swedish newspaper
  • Henry Draper Catalogue, an astronomical catalogue often used to designate stars
  • Department of Highways (disambiguation)
  • Högsta Domstolen, the Supreme Court of Sweden
  • Hurter and Driffield Numbers or H&D, an old scale for measuring film speed

Technology

  • Hard drive, an electro-mechanical data storage device
  • Hash digest, the output of a hash function
  • HD Photo, an image format
  • HD Radio, an abbreviation from the term hybrid digital/analog radio
  • HD Voice, or wideband audio
  • Heavy Duty (disambiguation)
  • High density, a diskette density
  • High-definition television (HDTV), a resolution that is substantially higher than that of standard-definition television
  • 720p (HD), a progressive HDTV signal format with 720 horizontal lines/1280 columns and an aspect ratio (AR) of 16:9
  • 1080p (Full HD), or 1080i
  • 4K HD (Ultra HD), or 8K UHD
  • High-definition video, video of higher resolution and quality than standard-definition
  • Intel High Definition Audio, a specification for the audio sub-system of personal computers

See also