PDM may stand for:

Computing

  • .pdm (disambiguation), several file formats
  • Personal data manager - portable hardware tool enabling secure storage and easy access to user data
  • Phase dispersion minimization, a data analysis technique for finding periodic components in time series data
  • Physical data model, a representation of a data design as implemented, or intended to be implemented, in a database management system
  • Point distribution model, deformable contour model (used in Computer Vision)
  • Programming Development Manager
  • Protocol-dependent module, decision making about routing table entries
  • Pulse-density modulation, a form of modulation used in analog to digital conversions
  • Product Data Management, Product data management (PDM) or Product information management (PIM) is the business function often within product lifecycle management (PLM)

Politics

  • Pichda Dalit Muslmaan is a political alliance in Uttar Pradesh state of India
  • Democratic Party of Moldova, a political party of Moldova
  • Modern Democratic Party, a political party of Moldova
  • Mexican Democratic Party a former political party in Mexico
  • Pakistan Democratic Movement, a former anti-establishment coalition of political parties in Pakistan
  • Party-directed mediation, a mediation approach that relies heavily on pre-caucus and joint sessions
  • People's Democratic Movement, a political party of Papua New Guinea
  • People's Democratic Movement (Dominica), a political party of Dominica
  • People's Democratic Movement (Montserrat), a political party of Montserrat
  • People's Democratic Movement (Turks and Caicos Islands), a political party of the Turks and Caicos Islands
  • Popular Democratic Movement, Namibian political party
  • Progress and Modern Democracy, French centrist political group
  • Southern Democratic Party a former political party in Calabria, Italy

Others

  • École Polyvalente Deux-Montagnes, a high school in Deux-Montagnes, Quebec, Canada
  • Partial-propensity direct method, a stochastic simulation algorithm for chemical reaction networks
  • PDM (cycling team), the cycling team sponsored by Philips Dupont Magnetics
  • PDM Group of Institutions (popularly known as PDM) is a Group of Educational Institutions located in India
  • Penny-drop moment, an abbreviation used by cryptic crossword bloggers
  • Philips Dupont Magnetics, a joint venture between Philips and DuPont
  • Ponta da Madeira, an enormous deep-water port in northern Brazil
  • Polarization-division multiplexing
  • Post-detonation material such as trinitite formed following nuclear weapon detonations
  • Prague Daily Monitor, a newspaper published in the Czech Republic
  • Preachers of Divine Mercy, a Syro-Malabar Catholic religious congregation
  • Precedence Diagram Method, a project scheduling technique
  • Predictive maintenance, a method for planning equipment maintenance based on their condition
  • Public Domain Mark, a way of distinguishing works that are free of known copyright
  • Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual, a psychoanalytically-oriented manual for use by mental health professionals
  • PDM-A, modernized version of the RPO-A reactive flamethrower
  • M86 pursuit deterrent munition, a type of anti-personnel mine produced in US
  • Personal diabetes manager a machine used for giving insulin to diabetics
  • Parfums de Marly, a French niche perfume house.
  • Pittsburgh-Des Moines Steel Company, a defunct United States steel fabrication company