MPD may refer to:

Police

U.S. police

  • Maui Police Department, Maui, Hawaii
  • Memphis Police Department, Memphis, Tennessee
  • Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia, Washington, District of Columbia
  • Miami Police Department, Miami, Florida
  • Milwaukee Police Department, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
  • Minneapolis Police Department, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Other police

  • Manila Police District, Manila, the Philippines
  • Metropolitan Police District, the area policed by the Metropolitan Police Service in London, United Kingdom
  • Montreal Police Department, Montreal, Canada
  • Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, Tokyo, Japan

Politics

  • Movement for Democracy (Cape Verde), a political party in Cape Verde
  • Movimiento Popular Democrático, a political party in Ecuador

Science

  • Magnetoplasmadynamic thruster, an electric space propulsion engine
  • Mesoscale precipitation discussion, a short-term meteorological forecast issued by the Weather Prediction Center concerning heavy precipitation and flash flooding
  • Minor-planet designation, a number–name combination given to a minor planet
  • Multivariate Pólya distribution, a statistical distribution
  • Mouse Phenome Database, an online database of laboratory mouse characterizations

Chemistry

  • 2-Methyl-2,4-pentanediol
  • m-Phenylenediamine
  • Methylphenidate

Medicine

  • Multiple Personality Disorder, the previous name for dissociative identity disorder
  • Myeloproliferative disease, a group of diseases of the bone marrow
  • Maximum permissible dose, of radiation

Software

  • MPD (programming language), a concurrent programming language
  • Music Player Daemon, a music-player server
  • Media Presentation Description, segment information in the streaming technique Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH)

Technology

  • Managed Pressure Drilling, an adaptive oil drilling process
  • Memory Protection Devices, a company that manufactures battery holders
  • A range of MIDI pad controllers made by Akai Professional

Transportation

  • Moonee Ponds railway station, Melbourne
  • Motive power depot, a location used to store locomotives
  • UTA MPD, a type of diesel multiple unit railcar of Northern Ireland Railways
  • Air Comet, by ICAO airline designator

Other uses

  • Markovian Parallax Denigrate, a 1996 internet mystery
  • Metres above principal datum (mPD), a surveying term; see sea level