PLD may refer to:

Political parties

* ''Partido de la Liberación Dominicana'' (

Dominican Liberation Party The Dominican Liberation Party ( Spanish: Partido de la Liberación Dominicana, referred to here by its Spanish acronym, the PLD) is a political party in the Dominican Republic. Founded in 1973 by former president Juan Bosch, the party, along ...

) *

Party for Liberties and Development The Party for Liberty and Development (in French ''Parti pour les Libertés et le Développement'' or PLD) is a Chadian political party led by Ibni Oumar Mahamat Saleh. An opposition party based in the Muslim and Arab east, it took three seats ...

(''Parti pour les Libertés et le Développement''), Chad *

Liberal Democratic Party (Angola) The Liberal Democratic Party ( pt, Partido Liberal Democrático) is a liberal party in Angola, and is a member of Liberal International. In the 1992 elections, the PLD won 2.4% of the vote, gaining three seats in parliament. However, in the 2008 ...

* Liberal Democratic Party (Italy) *

Liberal Democratic Party (Romania) The Liberal Democratic Party ( ro, Partidul Liberal Democrat, PLD) was a political party in Romania, formed in December 2006 as a breakaway/splinter group from the National Liberal Party (PNL). The Liberal Democratic Party was headed by Theodor ...

* Liberal Democratic Pole

Science and technology

* Pegylated Liposomal Doxorubicin, a pegylated liposomal form of the anticancer medication

doxorubicin Doxorubicin, sold under the brand name Adriamycin among others, is a chemotherapy medication used to treat cancer. This includes breast cancer, bladder cancer, Kaposi's sarcoma, lymphoma, and acute lymphocytic leukemia. It is often used toge ...

* Phospholipase D, an enzyme which cleaves phosphatidylcholine to produce phosphatidic acid and choline *

PLD Space Payload Aerospace S.L. (PLD Space) is a Spanish company developing two partially-reusable launch vehicles called Miura 1 and Miura 5. Miura 1 is designed as a sounding rocket for sub-orbital flights to perform research or technology development ...

, a European space company focused on developing low cost launch vehicles *

Polycystic liver disease Polycystic liver disease (PLD) usually describes the presence of multiple cysts scattered throughout normal liver tissue. PLD is commonly seen in association with autosomal-dominant polycystic kidney disease, with a prevalence of 1 in 400 to 1000, ...

, multiple cysts scattered throughout the normal liver tissue *

Programmable logic device A programmable logic device (PLD) is an electronic component used to build reconfigurable digital circuits. Unlike digital logic constructed using discrete logic gates with fixed functions, a PLD has an undefined function at the time of manu ...

, a type of integrated circuit semiconductor *

Pulsed laser deposition Pulsed laser deposition (PLD) is a physical vapor deposition (PVD) technique where a high-power pulsed laser beam is focused inside a vacuum chamber to strike a target of the material that is to be deposited. This material is vaporized from the ...

, a method of growing thin films * Primary Linguistic Data, Chomsky's term for one's experiences of language during childhood.

Other uses

* Paul Laurence Dunbar High School (disambiguation), several schools * Pierre-Luc Dubois, ice hockey player for the Winnipeg Jets * The ISO 639 language code for

Polari Polari () is a form of slang or cant used in Britain and Ireland by some actors, circus and fairground showmen, professional wrestlers, merchant navy sailors, criminals, sex workers and the gay subculture. There is some debate about its origi ...

* Product Liability Directive 1985, an EU directive that created a regime of strict liability for defective products * The stock symbol for

Prologis Prologis, Inc. is a real estate investment trust headquartered in San Francisco, California that invests in logistics facilities. The company was formed through the merger of AMB Property Corporation and Prologis in June 2011, which made Prologi ...

, a real estate investment trust *

Purushottam Laxman Deshpande Purushottam Laxman Deshpande (alternatively written as Pu La Deshpande; 8 November 1919 – 12 June 2000), popularly known by his initials ("Pu. La.") or as P. L. Deshpande, was a Marathi writer and humorist from Maharashtra. He was also an ...

, Marathi writer and humourist. *

Portslade railway station Portslade railway station (in full, Portslade & West Hove station) is a railway station serving the town of Portslade-by-Sea in East Sussex, England, but located on the western fringes of the village of Aldrington (a part commonly known as 'Wes ...

, a railway station in Sussex, England (station code: PLD) {{Disambiguation, political