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) The Party of the Democratic Centre ( es, Partido del Centro Democrático, PCD) was a centrist political party active in the Second Spanish Republic. History The origins of the PCD can be traced back to a note issued to the press on 31 December ...

Christian Democratic Party (France) VIA, the Way of the People (french: VIA , la voie du peuple, links=no, VIA) is a social conservative and Christian rightist party in France. The party was known as the Forum of Social Republicans (FRS) between 2001 and June 2009 before being ad ...

(French: ''Parti chrétien-démocrate'') *

Democratic Convergence Party (São Tomé and Príncipe) The Democratic Convergence Party-Reflection Group ( pt, Partido de Convergência Democrática-Grupo de Reflexão), or PCD-GR, is a political party in São Tomé and Príncipe. It was founded on 4 November 1990 by Movement for the Liberation of S� ...

(Portuguese: ''Partido de Convergência Democrática'')

Other organizations

Personal Communications Devices Personal Communications Devices, LLC, also d.b.a. PCD, was a privately held company that worked with wireless technology partners, including wireless service providers and mobile phone-manufacturers to develop, support and bring mobile phones ...

, a mobile phone development and marketing company *

Partnership for Child Development The Partnership for Child Development (PCD) is a research and technical assistance group based at Imperial College London that seeks to improve health and nutrition in school-age children and youth in low-income countries, thereby improving thei ...

, an organisation within Imperial College London *

Providence Country Day School The Providence Country Day School (often abbreviated to the initials PCD) is a private middle and high school, founded in 1923. Located in East Providence, Rhode Island, United States, it serves 255 students in grades 5 through 12. The school ...

, in East Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.

Science and technology

Biology and medicine

Paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration Paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration (PCD) is a paraneoplastic syndrome associated with a broad variety of tumors including lung cancer, ovarian cancer, breast cancer, Hodgkin’s lymphoma and others. PCD is a rare condition that occurs in less ...

, a paraneoplastic syndrome *

Phlegmasia cerulea dolens Phlegmasia cerulea dolens (PCD) (literally: 'painful blue inflammation'), not to be confused with preceding phlegmasia alba dolens, is an uncommon severe form of lower extremity deep venous thrombosis (DVT) that obstructs blood outflow from a vei ...

, 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 In enzymology, a protocatechuate 3,4-dioxygenase () is an enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction : 3,4-dihydroxybenzoate + O2 \rightleftharpoons 3-carboxy-cis,cis-muconate Thus, the two substrates of this enzyme are 3,4-dihydroxybenzoate ( ...

, an enzyme

Computing and electronics

* Proximity coupling device, a reader device for NFC Cards in

ISO/IEC 14443 ISO/IEC 14443 ''Identification cards -- Contactless integrated circuit cards -- Proximity cards'' is an international standard that defines proximity cards used for identification, and the transmission protocols for communicating with it. Standa ...

Photo CD Photo CD is a system designed by Kodak for digitizing and saving photos onto a CD. Launched in 1991, the discs were designed to hold nearly 100 high quality images, scanned prints and slides using special proprietary encoding. Photo CDs are de ...

, a system designed by Kodak in 1991 **

Picture CD Picture CD is a product by Kodak, following on from the earlier Photo CD product. It holds photos from a single roll of color film, stored at 1024×1536 resolution using JPEG compression. The product is aimed at consumers. Software to view and pe ...

, a later Kodak product *

Process control daemon Process Control Daemon (PCD) is an open source, light-weight system level process manager/controller for Embedded Linux based projects (such as consumer electronics and network devices). This tool provides a complementary service for any Embedded ...

, 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 Picard (, also , ) is a ''langue d'oïl'' of the Romance language family spoken in the northernmost part of France and Hainaut province in Belgium. Administratively, this area is divided between the French Hauts-de-France region and the Belgian ...

, 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 {{disambiguation