BD, Bd or bd may refer to:

In arts and entertainment

* B. D. (Doonesbury), a major character in the ''Doonesbury'' comic strip * '' Bande dessinée'' (or "bédé"), a French term for

comics a medium used to express ideas with images, often combined with text or other visual information. It typically the form of a sequence of panels of images. Textual devices such as speech balloons, captions, and onomatopoeia can indicate ...

Bass drum The bass drum is a large drum that produces a note of low definite or indefinite pitch. The instrument is typically cylindrical, with the drum's diameter much greater than the drum's depth, with a struck head at both ends of the cylinder. Th ...

, in sheet music notation *

Brahe Djäknar (), also referred to as simply , abbreviated BD, is a Finland-Swedish academic male voice choir in Turku, Finland. Overview The choir was founded in 1937 and was directed by John Rosas until 1955. Rosas was succeeded by Gottfrid Gräsbeck, ...

, a Finnish choir * Broder Daniel, a Swedish indie pop band * '' Ben Drowned'', a web serial and web series, focused on the character of the same name *

ВD ''Velikiy Drakon'' ( rus, Великий Dракон lit. "Great Dragon") is a defunct Russian video game magazine initially launched as ''Video-Ace Dendy'' ( rus, Видео-Асс Dendy) in 1993. The magazine was Russia's first wholly video-game- ...

, shorthand name for the Russian gaming magazine, ''

Velikij Drakon ''Velikiy Drakon'' ( rus, Великий Dракон lit. "Great Dragon") is a defunct Russian video game magazine initially launched as ''Video-Ace Dendy'' ( rus, Видео-Асс Dendy) in 1993. The magazine was Russia's first wholly video-game- ...

'', where the "В" character is actually the Russian letter "ve". * Bette Davis's production company

In business

Business / Technology

* B&D Australia, manufacturing company *

Big data Though used sometimes loosely partly because of a lack of formal definition, the interpretation that seems to best describe Big data is the one associated with large body of information that we could not comprehend when used only in smaller am ...

, a marketing term for technology of large data sets *

Broker-dealer In financial services, a broker-dealer is a natural person, company or other organization that engages in the business of trading securities for its own account or on behalf of its customers. Broker-dealers are at the heart of the securities and d ...

* Business day, a day of the week on which business is conducted *

Business development Business development entails tasks and processes to develop and implement growth opportunities within and between organizations. It is a subset of the fields of business, commerce and organizational theory. Business development is the creation of ...

, techniques aimed at attracting customers and penetrating markets * Business directory, a website or printed listing of information which lists all businesses within some category

Businesses

* Bad Dragon, an American manufacturer of fantasy-themed sex toys * Becton Dickinson (BD.com), an American manufacturer of medical supplies * BMI (airline), or British Midland Airways (IATA airline code BD until 2012) * '' Building Design'', a British architectural magazine * Cambodia Bayon Airlines (IATA airline code BD from 2014)

Places

* Bangladesh, (ISO 3166-1 country code BD) **

.bd .bd is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Bangladesh. It is administered by the Ministry of Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology. Registrations are at the third level beneath several second-level labels, par ...

, the country top-level domain for Bangladesh * BD postcode area, UK, for Bradford, West Yorkshire, and the surrounding area * Bermuda, where "BD" is the FIPS PUB 10-4 territory code and obsolete NATO country code * Brunei Darussalam, where "BD" is the World Meteorological Organization country code

In science and technology

In computing

Baud In telecommunication and electronics, baud (; symbol: Bd) is a common unit of measurement of symbol rate, which is one of the components that determine the speed of communication over a data channel. It is the unit for symbol rate or modulatio ...

(''Bd''), an information unit * %BD, the URL encoded version of the

one half One half ( : halves) is the irreducible fraction resulting from dividing one by two or the fraction resulting from dividing any number by its double. Multiplication by one half is equivalent to division by two, or "halving"; conversely, d ...

(½) symbol *

, data sets that are so large or complex that traditional data processing applications are inadequate *

Blu-ray Disc The Blu-ray Disc (BD), often known simply as Blu-ray, is a Digital media, digital optical disc data storage format. It was invented and developed in 2005 and released on June 20, 2006 worldwide. It is designed to supersede the DVD format, and c ...

, a high density blue laser optical disc format, or the successor of DVD ** BD+, a component of the Blu-ray Disc Digital Rights Management system

In biology and medicine

* '' Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis'', a fungus that causes the fatal amphibian disease chytridiomycosis * BD butterfly, ''Callicore cynosura'' * Bipolar disorder, a mood disorder * "Bis die" (Latin for "twice a day"; also

Bid (Medical) This is a list of abbreviations used in medical prescriptions, including hospital orders (the patient-directed part of which is referred to as sig codes). This list does not include abbreviations for pharmaceuticals or drug name suffixes such as C ...

: "bis in diem") an indication that a medication needs to be taken twice a day

Other uses in science and technology

Bonner Durchmusterung In astronomy, Durchmusterung or Bonner Durchmusterung (BD) is an astrometric star catalogue of the whole sky, compiled by the Bonn Observatory in Germany from 1859 to 1903. The name comes from ('run-through examination'), a German word used for ...

, a 19th-century star catalog

Other uses

Bachelor of Divinity In Western universities, a Bachelor of Divinity or Baccalaureate in Divinity (BD or BDiv; la, Baccalaureus Divinitatis) is a postgraduate academic degree awarded for a course taken in the study of divinity or related disciplines, such as theology ...

, an academic degree * Battle Dress, a British military uniform * Bloor-Danforth, a subway line in Toronto, Canada * ''

Bondage (BDSM) Bondage in the BDSM subculture, is the practice of consensually tying, binding, or restraining a partner for erotic, aesthetic, or somatosensory stimulation. A partner may be physically restrained in a variety of ways, including the use ...

and Discipline (BDSM)'', in sexual role-play * Black Disciples, a black street gang based in Chicago, United States {{disambiguation