CDS, CDs, Cds, etc. may refer to:

Finance

* Canadian Depository for Securities, Canadian post-trade financial services company *

Certificate of deposit A certificate of deposit (CD) is a time deposit, a financial product commonly sold by banks, thrift institutions, and credit unions in the United States. CDs differ from savings accounts in that the CD has a specific, fixed term (often one, th ...

(CDs) *

Counterfeit Deterrence System To counterfeit means to imitate something authentic, with the intent to steal, destroy, or replace the original, for use in illegal transactions, or otherwise to deceive individuals into believing that the fake is of equal or greater value tha ...

, developed by the

Central Bank Counterfeit Deterrence Group The mission of the Central Bank Counterfeit Deterrence Group (CBCDG) (originally designated as Special Study Group 2 or SSG-2 of the G10) is to investigate emerging threats to the security of banknotes and to propose solutions for implementation by ...

Credit default swap A credit default swap (CDS) is a financial swap agreement that the seller of the CDS will compensate the buyer in the event of a debt default (by the debtor) or other credit event. That is, the seller of the CDS insures the buyer against som ...

(CDS), a type of credit derivative

Military

Chief Defence Scientist The Defence Science and Technology Group (DSTG) is part of the Department of Defence (Australia), Australian Department of Defence dedicated to providing science and technology support to safeguard Australia and its national interests. The age ...

, the head of the Australian Defence Science & Technology *

Chief of the Defence Staff (disambiguation) Chief of the Defence Staff may refer to: *Chief of the Defence Staff (Canada) *Chief of the Defence Staff (France) *Chief of the Defence Staff (The Gambia) *Chief of the Defence Staff (Ghana) * Chief of the Defence Staff (India) *Chief of the Defen ...

Chief of the Defence Staff (Canada) The chief of the Defence Staff (CDS; french: chef d'état-major de la Défense; french: CEMD, label=none) is the professional head of the Canadian Armed Forces. As the senior military position, the chief of the Defence Staff advises the Cabinet, ...

Chief of the Defence Staff (France) The Chief of the Defence Staff (french: Chef d'État-Major des Armées 'CEMA'' ) is the military head of the Armed Forces of the French Republic, ensuring the commandment of all military operations (under reserve of the particular dispositions ...

Chief of the Defence Staff (Ghana) The Chief of the Defence Staff (CDS) is the professional head of the Ghana Armed Forces. He is thus responsible for the administration and the operational control and command of the Ghana military. The CDS is a member of the Armed Forces Council. ...

** Chief of the Defence Staff (India) **

Chief of the Defence Staff (Nigeria) The Chief of the Defence Staff (CDS) is the professional head of the Nigerian Armed Forces and the most senior uniformed military adviser to the minister of defence and the president of Nigeria. The chief of the defence staff is based at the Min ...

** Chief of the Defence Staff, of the

Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces The Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces (RSLAF) are the armed forces of Sierra Leone, responsible for the territorial security of Sierra Leone's borders and defending the national interests of Sierra Leone, within the framework of the 1991 Si ...

Chief of the Defence Staff (Sri Lanka) The Chief of the Defence Staff (CDS) is the most senior appointment in the Sri Lankan Armed Forces, and the highest-ranking military officer in service, outranking the heads of each service branch. The CDS does not, however, have operational comm ...

Chief of the Defence Staff (United Kingdom) The Chief of the Defence Staff (CDS) is the professional head of the British Armed Forces and the most senior uniformed military adviser to the secretary of state for defence and the prime minister of the United Kingdom. The chief of the defenc ...

Comprehensive Display System The Comprehensive Display System (CDS) was a command, control, and coordination system of the British Royal Navy (RN) that worked with the detection/search Type 984 radar. The system was installed on a total of six ships starting in 1957. The US ...

, a command, control, and coordination system used by the British Royal Navy in the 1960s to track aircraft * South American Defense Council (''Consejo de Defensa Sudamericano''), of the

Union of South American Nations The Union of South American Nations (USAN; es, links=no, Unión de Naciones Suramericanas, UNASUR; pt, links=no, União de Nações Sul-Americanas, UNASUL; nl, links=no, Unie van Zuid-Amerikaanse Naties, UZAN; French: ''Union des nations s ...

Organizations

* Canadian Depository for Securities *

Center for Development and Strategy The Center for Development and Strategy (CDS) is an environmental and economic American think tank and online publisher based in Buffalo, New York, in the United States. The center develops policy studies, risk briefs, and OpEds on political, econ ...

Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg Center or centre may refer to: Mathematics *Center (geometry), the middle of an object * Center (algebra), used in various contexts ** Center (group theory) ** Center (ring theory) * Graph center, the set of all vertices of minimum eccentricity ...

, a French astronomical data center *

Centre for Development Studies The Centre for Development Studies (CDS), Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India is a premier Social Science research institute. It is also a higher education institution providing M.A. course in applied economics and PhD course in economics. It is ...

, in India *

Commercial Data Systems Commercial Data Systems, Ltd. (CDS) was a software publisher and technology company based in Emerald Park, Saskatchewan. In the 1980s, CDS was primarily involved in the production of computer games for 8-bit computers such as the Commodore 64. ...

, a Canadian software publisher *

Conference of Drama Schools The Conference of Drama Schools (CDS) was the organisation which represented the top 21 accredited UK drama schools in the United Kingdom from 1969 until 2012. History Originally founded in 1969 as an educational charitable organization it chang ...

, now part of Drama UK *

Cooperative Development Services Cooperative Development Services (CDS) is a nonprofit organization engaged in cooperative development in the United States. CDS works primarily with food cooperatives and senior housing cooperatives, providing consultation services and co-sponsor ...

, a non-profit organization engaged in cooperative development in the US *

Sinaloa Cartel The Sinaloa Cartel ( es, link=no, Cártel de Sinaloa), also known as the CDS, the Guzmán-Loera Organization, the Pacific Cartel, the Federation and the Blood Alliance, is a large, international organized crime syndicate that specializes in il ...

(Spanish: ''Cártel de Sinaloa'')

Politics

Campaign for Democratic Socialism The Campaign for Democratic Socialism or CDS was a social democratic and democratic socialist organisation in the British Labour Party, serving as a pressure group representing the right wing of the party. Established in 1960, the CDS was compos ...

, a former group within the British Labour Party; forerunner to the Social Democratic Party * '' Centre des démocrates sociaux'' (Centre of Social Democrats), a French political party; see *

CDS – People's Party The CDS – People's Party ( pt, CDS – Partido Popular, derived from ''Centro Democrático e Social – Partido Popular'', CDS–PP)

(''Centro Democrático e Social – Partido Popular''), a Portuguese political party * '' Centro Democrático y Social'' (Democratic and Social Centre), a former Spanish political party * '' Convention démocratique et sociale-Rahama'' (Democratic and Social Convention), a political party in Niger

Science

Cadmium sulfide Cadmium sulfide is the inorganic compound with the formula CdS. Cadmium sulfide is a yellow solid.Egon Wiberg, Arnold Frederick Holleman (2001''Inorganic Chemistry'' Elsevier It occurs in nature with two different crystal structures as the rare m ...

(CdS), an inorganic compound * Climate Data Store, a central component of the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) *

Chromatography data system Chromatography software is software that collects and analyzes chromatographic results delivered by chromatography detectors. Many chromatography software packages are provided by manufacturers, and many of them only provide a simple interface to a ...

, software collecting and analyzing chromatographic results *

Coding DNA sequence The coding region of a gene, also known as the coding sequence (CDS), is the portion of a gene's DNA or RNA that codes for protein. Studying the length, composition, regulation, splicing, structures, and functions of coding regions compared to no ...

, that portion of a gene's DNA or RNA, composed of exons, that codes for protein *

Correlated double sampling Correlated double sampling (CDS) is a method to measure electrical values such as voltages or currents that allows removing an undesired offset. It is used often when measuring sensor outputs. The output of the sensor is measured twice: once in a kn ...

, a method to measure electrical values such as voltages or currents that allows removing an undesired offset * Chlorine Dioxide Solution, a toxic solution of sodium chlorite, falsely promoted as a universal cure * Cytosolic DNA Sensor, molecule that detects microbial double-stranded DNA in the cytosol and activates signaling pathways that initiate anti-microbial responses

Technology

Current Directory Structure In computing, the working directory of a process is a directory of a hierarchical file system, if any, dynamically associated with each process. It is sometimes called the current working directory (CWD), e.g. the BSD getcwd function, or just c ...

, an important internal data structure in DOS *

Compact disc The compact disc (CD) is a Digital media, digital optical disc data storage format that was co-developed by Philips and Sony to store and play digital audio recordings. In August 1982, the first compact disc was manufactured. It was then rele ...

s (CDs) *

CD single A CD single (sometimes abbreviated to CDS) is a music single in the form of a compact disc. The standard in the Red Book for the term ''CD single'' is an 8 cm (3-inch) CD (or Mini CD). It now refers to any single recorded onto a CD of any si ...

(CDS), a music single in the form of a standard size compact disc *

Cockpit display system The Cockpit display systems (or CDS) provides the visible (and audible) portion of the Human Machine Interface (HMI) by which aircrew manage the modern Glass cockpit and thus interface with the aircraft avionics. History Prior to the 1970s, cockp ...

Cross-domain solution A cross-domain solution (CDS) is an integrated information assurance system composed of specialized software, and sometimes hardware, that provides a controlled interface to manually or automatically enable and/or restrict the access or transfer of ...

, processes that transfer data between security domains * Cinema Digital Sound, a multi-channel surround sound format used for theatrical films in the early 1990s

Other uses

Common Data Set The Common Data Set (CDS) is a product of the Common Data Set Initiative, "a collaborative effort among data providers in the higher education community and publishers as represented by the College Board, Peterson's, and '' U.S. News & World Repo ...

Community day school Community Day Schools in California are operated by school districts. Community day schools serve students referred by a School Attendance Review Board, and other high-risk youths."Community Day Schools" from http://www.cde.ca.gov/sp/eo/cd/. Ac ...

, a school system used in the state of California, US *

Coulsdon South railway station Coulsdon South railway station serves Coulsdon in the London Borough of Croydon, and is in Travelcard Zone 6, on the Brighton Main Line. It is measured from . The station is served by Southern and by ThamesLink. It is the mouth southerly mainl ...

, London, England (National Rail station code) *

Country Day School movement The Country Day School movement is a movement in progressive education that originated in the United States during the late 19th century. Country Day Schools sought to recreate the educational rigor, atmosphere, camaraderie and character-building ...

Child-directed speech Baby talk is a type of speech associated with an older person speaking to a child or infant. It is also called caretaker speech, infant-directed speech (IDS), child-directed speech (CDS), child-directed language (CDL), caregiver register, parent ...

, or baby talk * Condensed distillers solubles, also referred to as

distillers grains Distillers grains are a cereal byproduct of the distillation process. Brewer's spent grain usually refers to barley produced as a byproduct of brewing, while distillers grains are a mix of corn, rice and other grains. There are two main source ...

, a cereal byproduct of the distillation process * Container delivery system, a system used for

airdrop An airdrop is a type of airlift in which items including weapons, equipment, humanitarian aid or leaflets are delivered by military or civilian aircraft without their landing. Developed during World War II to resupply otherwise inaccessible tro ...

s * Controlled/dangerous substance, as defined by the

Controlled Substances Act The Controlled Substances Act (CSA) is the statute establishing federal government of the United States, federal drug policy of the United States, U.S. drug policy under which the manufacture, importation, possession, use, and distribution of ...

Combined Defence Services Examination The Combined Defence Services Examination (abbreviated as CDS Exam) is conducted by the Union Public Service Commission for recruitment of Commissioned Officers in the Indian Military Academy, Officers Training Academy, Indian Naval Academy and ...

, abbreviated as CDS, Indian military examination * Certified Director of Safety (Designation from NATMI - the North American Transportation Management Institute in conjunction with the University of Central Florida) * Customs Declaration Service, a UK customs management system and planned successor of

CHIEF Chief may refer to: Title or rank Military and law enforcement * Chief master sergeant, the ninth, and highest, enlisted rank in the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Space Force * Chief of police, the head of a police department * Chief of the boa ...

. * Cognitive disengagement syndrome, an attention disorder that is increasingly thought to be distinct from

ADHD Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterised by excessive amounts of inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity that are pervasive, impairing in multiple contexts, and otherwise age-inapp ...