MPD explained

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
Multivariate Pólya distribution, a statistical distribution
Mouse Phenome Database, an online database of laboratory mouse characterizations

Chemistry

Medicine

Multiple personality disorder, a no longer accurate diagnosis for the mental disorder: dissociative identity disorder and other specified dissociative 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)

Other uses

Managed Pressure Drilling, an adaptive oil drilling process
Markovian Parallax Denigrate, a 1996 internet mystery.
Memory Protection Devices, a company that manufactures battery holders
Moonee Ponds railway station, Melbourne
UTA MPD, a type of diesel multiple unit railcar of Northern Ireland Railways
Air Comet, by ICAO airline designator
Motive power depot, a location used to store locomotives
A range of MIDI pad controllers made by Akai
Metres above principal datum (mPD), a surveying term; see sea level