PCD may refer to:

Businesses and organizations

Political parties

Democratic Conservative Party The Democratic Conservative Party ( Spanish: ''Partido Conservador Demócrata'', PCD) is a Nicaraguan political party with a traditional conservative ideology. The party was formed in 1979. Clemente Guido participated as PCD's presidential candida ...

(Spanish: ''Partido Conservador Demócrata''), in Nicaragua *

Democratic Society Party The Democratic Society Party ( tr, Demokratik Toplum Partisi, DTP, Kurdish: ''Partiya Civaka Demokratîk'', PCD) was a Kurdish nationalist political party in Turkey. The party considered itself social-democratic and had observer status in the So ...

(Kurdish: ''Partiya Civaka Demokratîk''), in Turkey * Party of the Democratic Centre (Spain) *

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, 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, an uncommon severe form of lower extremity deep venous thrombosis *

Primary ciliary dyskinesia Primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD) is a rare, autosomal recessive genetic ciliopathy, that causes defects in the action of cilia lining the upper and lower respiratory tract, sinuses, Eustachian tube, middle ear, Fallopian tube, and flagella of ...

, a rare autosomal recessive genetic disorder *

Programmed cell death Programmed cell death (PCD; sometimes referred to as cellular suicide) is the death of a cell as a result of events inside of a cell, such as apoptosis or autophagy. PCD is carried out in a biological process, which usually confers advantage durin ...

, the suicide of a cell in a multicellular organism * Protocatechuate 3,4-dioxygenase, 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, an open-source process controller * Point Cloud Data, a file format for

Point Cloud Library The Point Cloud Library (PCL) is an open-source library of algorithms for point cloud processing tasks and 3D geometry processing, such as occur in three-dimensional computer vision. The library contains algorithms for filtering, feature estimatio ...

Other uses in science and technology

Polycrystalline diamond Lab-grown diamond (LGD; also called laboratory-grown, laboratory-created, man-made, artisan-created, artificial, synthetic, or cultured diamond) is diamond that is produced in a controlled technological process (in contrast to naturally formed ...

, artificial diamond

Music

The Pussycat Dolls The Pussycat Dolls were an American girl group and dance ensemble, founded in Los Angeles, California, by choreographer Robin Antin in 1995 as a burlesque troupe. At the suggestion of Jimmy Iovine, Antin decided to take the burlesque troupe ...

, an American girl group and dance ensemble ** ''PCD'' (album), 2005 *

Phillips, Craig and Dean Phillips, Craig and Dean (rendered as Phillips, Craig & Dean on albums) is a contemporary Christian music trio composed of pastors Randy Phillips, Shawn Craig, and Dan Dean. Since forming in 1991, the group has sold over two million units. They ...

, 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 Process-centered design (PCD) is a design methodology, which proposes a business centric approach for designing user interfaces. Because of the multi-stage business analysis steps involved right from the beginning of the PCD life cycle, it is ...

, in design methodology {{disambiguation