department of a local government that is concerned with maintaining civil order and preventing crime
PD or Pd may refer to:
Padua, Italy (
ISO 3166-2:IT)
Palladium, symbol for the
chemical element.
Parkinson's disease, a degenerative neurological conditionPartito Democratico, Partito Democratico (Pd), Italy.
Partai Demokrat of Indonesia
Partial discharge, an undesirable discharge phenomenon in high voltage dielectricsPass deflection, in football, when a pass is batted down or blocked by a defensive player.
Partidul Democrat of Romania
People's Democracy, a political organization
Perfect Dark, a video game
Period (punctuation), as used in coded military communication (e.g., WWII)Peritoneal dialysis
Peu difficile, a French climbing/mountaineering grade
Phase-change Dual, an optical media format
Phelps Dodge a former mining company, now part of Freeport-McMoRan.
PhotodiodePhoton Drop, a rare item in the video game
Phantasy Star Online.
Plain Dealer, name of the newspaper based in Cleveland, U.S.point decimal
Pokémon DiamondPolice departmentPoolday (a
Counter-Strike map)
Porter Airlines IATA code
Potential DifferencePorco DioPotsdam Devil
Preventive DetentionThe
Principia Discordia, a holy text in Discordianism
Prisoner's DilemmaPrivatdozent, title/position especially in the German university
Probability of Default, used in finance (
Basel II)Problem Determination (usually in Computing)
Production diaryProfessional DegreeProgram directorProgressive Democrats, a political party in the Republic of IrelandProgressive Disease, a term concerning the outcome of oncological patients
Projective determinacy, a proposition in set theoryA prefix for weapons demarking them as point defense weapons
Public defenderPublic domainPupillary Distance in Optometry
Pure Data the graphical programming language
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