PCD explained

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.

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

• 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