BD, Bd or bd may refer to:

In arts and entertainment

B. D. (Doonesbury) B.D. is a fictional character in Garry Trudeau's popular comic strip ''Doonesbury''. In the comic strip, nobody is certain what "B.D." is short for (he gives his last name as "D"), but he was based on Brian Dowling, quarterback at Yale Univers ...

, a major character in the ''Doonesbury'' comic strip * ''

Bande dessinée (singular ; literally 'drawn strips'), abbreviated BDs and also referred to as Franco-Belgian comics (), are comics that are usually originally in French and created for readership in France and Belgium. These countries have a long traditio ...

'' (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 Broder Daniel (Swedish for ''Brother Daniel''), often abbreviated as BD, was an alternative rock band from Gothenburg, Sweden. They formed in the late 1980s and then consisted of classmates Henrik Berggren and Daniel Gilbert. The band claims they ...

, a Swedish indie pop band * ''

Ben Drowned ''Ben Drowned'' (originally published as ''Haunted Majora's Mask Cartridge'') is a three-part multimedia alternate reality game (ARG) web serial and web series created by Alexander D. "Jadusable" Hall. Originating as a creepypasta based on the 20 ...

'', a web serial and

web series A web series (also known as a web show) is a series of scripted or non-scripted online videos, generally in episodic form, released on the Internet, which first emerged in the late 1990s and became more prominent in the early 2000s. A single i ...

, 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 Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis (; April 5, 1908 – October 6, 1989) was an American actress with a career spanning more than 50 years and 100 acting credits. She was noted for playing unsympathetic, sardonic characters, and was famous for her pe ...

'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 business day means any day except any Saturday, any Sunday, or any day which is a legal holiday or any day on which banking institutions are authorized or required by law or other governmental action to close. The definition of a 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 business directory is a website or printed listing of information which lists businesses within niche based categories. Businesses can be categorized by niche, location, activity, or size. Business may be compiled either manually or through a ...

, a website or printed listing of information which lists all businesses within some category

Businesses

Bad Dragon Bad Dragon Enterprises, Inc. is an American manufacturer of fantasy-themed sex toys, primarily targeted at members of the furry fandom. Products are sold online and at conventions. The CEO of Bad Dragon, Jan "Varka" Mulders, also owns the booru ...

, an American manufacturer of fantasy-themed sex toys *

Becton Dickinson Becton, Dickinson and Company, also known as BD, is an American multinational medical technology company that manufactures and sells medical devices, instrument systems, and reagents. BD also provides consulting and analytics services in certai ...

(BD.com), an American manufacturer of medical supplies *

BMI (airline) British Midland Airways Limited (trading at various times throughout its history as British Midland, bmi British Midland, bmi or British Midland International) was an airline with its head office in Donington Hall in Castle Donington, close to ...

, or British Midland Airways (IATA airline code BD until 2012) * ''

Building Design Building design refers to the broadly based architectural, engineering and technical applications to the design of buildings. All building projects require the services of a building designer, typically a licensed architect. Smaller, less complica ...

'', a British architectural magazine *

Cambodia Bayon Airlines Cambodia Bayon Airlines ( km, អាកាសចរណ៍ កម្ពុជា បាយ័ន/បាយ័នអ៊ែរឡាញ) was an airline based in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Its main hub was at Phnom Penh International Airport. The airlin ...

(IATA airline code BD from 2014)

Places

Bangladesh Bangladesh (}, ), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the eighth-most populous country in the world, with a population exceeding 165 million people in an area of . Bangladesh is among the mos ...

, (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 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 * Bass drum, in sheet music notation * Brahe Djäknar ...

, UK, for Bradford, West Yorkshire, and the surrounding area *

Bermuda ) , anthem = "God Save the King" , song_type = National song , song = " Hail to Bermuda" , image_map = , map_caption = , image_map2 = , mapsize2 = , map_caption2 = , subdivision_type = Sovereign state , subdivision_name = , e ...

, where "BD" is the FIPS PUB 10-4 territory code and obsolete NATO country code *

Brunei Darussalam Brunei ( , ), formally Brunei Darussalam ( ms, Negara Brunei Darussalam, Jawi: , ), is a country located on the north coast of the island of Borneo in Southeast Asia. Apart from its South China Sea coast, it is completely surrounded by the ...

, 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

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Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis ''Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis'' ( ), also known as ''Bd'' or the amphibian chytrid fungus, is a fungus that causes the disease chytridiomycosis in amphibians. Since its discovery in 1998 by Lee Berger, the disease devastated amphibian popul ...

'', a fungus that causes the fatal amphibian disease chytridiomycosis * BD butterfly, ''Callicore cynosura'' *

Bipolar disorder Bipolar disorder, previously known as manic depression, is a mental disorder characterized by periods of depression and periods of abnormally elevated mood that last from days to weeks each. If the elevated mood is severe or associated with ...

, 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 combat uniform, also called field uniform, battledress or military fatigues, is a casual wear, casual type of uniform used by military, police, firefighter, fire and other public uniformed services for everyday fieldwork and combat duty purpo ...

, 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) Discipline in BDSM is the practice in which the dominant sets rules which the submissive is expected to obey. When rules of expected behaviour are broken, punishment is often used as a means of disciplining. Punishment In BDSM, rules can be mad ...

'', in sexual role-play *

Black Disciples The Black Disciples (often abbreviated as BDN, BDN III, BD's) is a large street gang based in Chicago, Illinois, which received significant news coverage after the murder of one of their own members, an 11-year-old named Robert Sandifer. Hi ...

, a black street gang based in Chicago, United States {{disambiguation