PCD may refer to:

Businesses and organizations

Political parties

  • Democratic Conservative Party (Spanish: Partido Conservador Demócrata), in Nicaragua
  • Democratic Society Party (Kurdish: Partiya Civaka Demokratîk), in Turkey
  • Party of the Democratic Centre (Spain)
  • Christian Democratic Party (France) (French: Parti chrétien-démocrate)
  • Democratic Convergence Party (São Tomé and Príncipe) (Portuguese: Partido de Convergência Democrática)
  • Democratic Center Party (Mexico) ()

Other organizations

  • Personal Communications Devices, a mobile phone development and marketing company
  • Partnership for Child Development, an organisation within Imperial College London
  • Providence Country Day School, in East Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.
  • Palestinian Civil Defence, a branch of the Palestinian Security Services.

Science and technology

Biology and medicine

  • Paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration, a paraneoplastic syndrome
  • Phlegmasia cerulea dolens, an uncommon severe form of lower extremity deep venous thrombosis
  • Primary ciliary dyskinesia, a rare autosomal recessive genetic disorder
  • Programmed cell death, the suicide of a cell in a multicellular organism
  • Protocatechuate 3,4-dioxygenase, an enzyme
  • Post-coital dysphoria

Computing and electronics

  • Personal Computing Device, a specialized laptop or tablet used by an astronaut during a mission
  • Proximity coupling device, a reader device for NFC Cards in ISO/IEC 14443
  • Photo CD, a system designed by Kodak in 1991
  • Picture CD, a later Kodak product
  • Process control daemon, an open-source process controller
  • Point Cloud Data, a file format for Point Cloud Library

Other uses in science and technology

  • Polycrystalline diamond, artificial diamond

Music

  • The Pussycat Dolls, an American girl group and dance ensemble
  • PCD (album), 2005
  • Phillips, Craig and Dean, a contemporary Christian music trio

Other uses

  • Picard language, ISO 639-3 language code pcd
  • Pitch Circle Diameter, a measure of bolt spacing when arranged in a circle
  • Process-centered design, in design methodology

References