PDS can refer to:

Entertainment

  • Partially Deceased Syndrome, a fictional condition in BBC show In the Flesh
  • Panzer Dragoon Saga, a 1998 video game

Computing

  • Partitioned data sets, IBM
  • Passive data structure, another term for record
  • Processor Direct Slot, in some old Macintosh computers
  • Personal data service, services to let individuals manage their own personal data by themselves
  • Program Development System, an early implementation of the DIGITAL Command Language for the IAS operating system.
  • Protective distribution system, a safeguarded telecommunication system
  • Microsoft BASIC Professional Development System (PDS), a superset of QuickBASIC
  • Paradox Development Studios, a game developer subsidiary of Paradox Interactive

Medical

  • Paroxysmal depolarizing shift, a pre-seizure interictal neuronal EEG spike in epilepsy.
  • Pigment dispersion syndrome, an affliction of the eye
  • Polydioxanone, a type of absorbable suture
  • Pleomorphic dermal sarcoma, a form of histiocytoma

Political parties

  • Party of Democratic Socialism (Partei des Demokratischen Sozialismus), a defunct political party of Germany
  • Social Democracy Party of Albania
  • Party of Democratic Socialism (India)
  • Party of the Sicilians
  • Progressive Democrats, a defunct political party of Ireland
  • Democratic Party of the Left (Partito Democratico della Sinistra), a defunct political party of Italy
  • Senegalese Democratic Party (Parti Démocratique Sénégalais), a political party of Senegal
  • Sudanese Democratic Party (Parti Démocratique Soudanais), a defunct political party of Sudan
  • Democratic Social Party (Partido Democrático Social), a defunct political party of Brazil
  • Prosperous Peace Party (Partai Damai Sejahtera), a political party of Indonesia
  • Parti de la Democratie Socialiste, a defunct provincial political party of Quebec, Canada

Schools

  • Princeton Day School, New Jersey, US
  • Peabody Demonstration School, former school in Nashville, Tennessee, US
  • Presbyterian Day School, Memphis, Tennessee, US
  • Providence Day School, Charlotte, North Carolina, US
  • Patumwan Demonstration School, Srinakharinwirot University, Bangkok, Thailand

Scientific

  • Photothermal deflection spectroscopy
  • Planetary Data System, a NASA data archive system
  • Polydioxanone, a synthetic polymer
  • 15-Cis-phytoene desaturase, an enzyme
  • Poincaré dodecahedral space
  • Power delivery system

Other

  • Particularly dangerous situation, special emphasis phrase in weather bulletins from the National Weather Service
  • Piedras Negras International Airport, IATA code PDS
  • Precision Drill Squad, an exhibition drill of the Singaporean military
  • Product design specification
  • Public distribution system, Indian food distribution system
  • The Philip DeFranco Show, on YouTube

See also

  • Plural of PD (disambiguation)