CD (disambiguation)

A CD or compact disc is a thin plastic silvery disc for audio recordings.

CD or cd may also refer to:

Science and technology

Astronomy and cosmology

Biology, ecology, and medicine

Computing

Mathematics

  • cd (elliptic function), one of Jacobi's elliptic functions

Other uses in science and technology

  • Cadmium or Cd, a chemical element
  • Candela or cd, a unit of light intensity
  • -CD, the North American call sign suffix for Class A low-power television stations operating with digital signals
  • Circular dichroism, a form of spectroscopy
  • Critical Dimension, the minimum feature size that a projection system can print in photolithography
  • Drag coefficient or cd, a dimensionless quantity used to quantify the drag of an object in a fluid

Businesses and organizations

Government, military, and political

  • Canadian Forces Decoration, by post-nominal letters
  • Centre Democrats (Denmark), a Danish former political party
  • Centre Democrats (Netherlands), a former political party of the Netherlands
  • Civil defense, an effort to protect the citizens of a state from military attack and natural disasters
  • Community of Democracies, an intergovernmental organization of democracies and democratizing countries
  • Conference on Disarmament, an international forum that negotiates multilateral arms control and disarmament agreements
  • Corps Diplomatique, the collective body of foreign diplomats accredited to a particular country or body
  • Centro Democratico, a political party in Italy
  • Democratic Republic of the Congo, by ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code
    • .cd, the Internet domain of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Other business and organizations

  • Certificate of deposit, a bank account in the United States with a fixed maturity date
  • České dráhy or ČD, a railway operator of the Czech Republic
  • Commander of the Order of Distinction, a rank in the Jamaican Orders of Societies of Honour

Places

Other uses

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