PDM may stand for:

Computing

* .pdm (disambiguation), several file formats *

Personal data manager A personal data manager (PDM) is a portable hardware tool enabling secure storage and easy access to user data. It can also be an application located on a portable smart device or PC, enabling novice end-users to directly define, classify, and man ...

- portable hardware tool enabling secure storage and easy access to user data * Phase dispersion minimization, a data analysis technique for finding periodic components in time series data *

Physical data model A physical data model (or database design) is a representation of a data design as implemented, or intended to be implemented, in a database management system. In the lifecycle of a project it typically derives from a logical data model, tho ...

, a representation of a data design as implemented, or intended to be implemented, in a database management system *

Point distribution model The point distribution model is a model for representing the mean geometry of a shape and some statistical modes of geometric variation inferred from a training set of shapes. Background The point distribution model concept has been developed by C ...

, deformable contour model (used in Computer Vision) * Programming Development Manager *

Protocol-dependent module Protocol-dependent modules (PDMs) are used by the routing protocol EIGRP to make decisions about adding routes learned from other sources; for example other routers or routing protocols to the routing table. In fact EIGRP has the capability for rou ...

, decision making about routing table entries *

Pulse-density modulation Pulse-density modulation, or PDM, is a form of modulation used to represent an analog signal with a binary signal. In a PDM signal, specific amplitude values are not encoded into codewords of pulses of different weight as they would be in pulse- ...

, a form of modulation used in analog to digital conversions *

Product Data Management Product data management (PDM) should not be confused with product information management (PIM). PDM is the name of a business function within product lifecycle management (PLM) that is denotes the management and publication of product data. In soft ...

, Product data management (PDM) or Product information management (PIM) is the business function often within product lifecycle management (PLM)

Politics

Democratic Party of Moldova The European Social Democratic Party ( ro, Partidul Social Democrat European, PSDE) is a centre-left, populist social-democratic political party in Moldova. Established in 1997, the party holds pro-European views, and is an associate member of th ...

, a political party of Moldova *

Mexican Democratic Party The Mexican Democratic Party ( es, Partido Demócrata Mexicano, PDM) was an ultra-Catholic social conservative political party in Mexico that existed between 1979 and 1997. At its height in 1982, the party had over 500,000 active voters and 12 seat ...

a former political party in Mexico *

Pakistan Democratic Movement The Pakistan Democratic Movement ( ur, پاکستان ڈیموکریٹک موومنٹ), or PDM, is a coalition of political parties in Pakistan. It was founded in September 2020 as a movement against then prime minister Imran Khan, accusing his ...

, an anti-establishment coalition of political parties in Pakistan * Party-directed mediation, a mediation approach that relies heavily on pre-caucus and joint sessions *

People's Democratic Movement The People's Democratic Movement is a political party in Papua New Guinea. It was founded by Paias Wingti in 1985, after his faction left the Pangu Party. Wingti served as prime minister from 1985 to 1988 and from 1992 to 1994. He was later rep ...

, a political party of Papua New Guinea * People's Democratic Movement (Dominica), a political party of Dominica *

People's Democratic Movement (Montserrat) The People's Democratic Movement (PDM) is a political party in Montserrat. History The party was established by the then leader of the opposition Donaldson Romeo Donaldson Romeo (born 1962) is a politician from Montserrat. He is currently a me ...

, a political party of Montserrat *

People's Democratic Movement (Turks and Caicos Islands) The People's Democratic Movement is a political party in the Turks and Caicos Islands founded by James Alexander George Smith McCartney and Lewis Edwin Astwood III. The party is led by the current opposition leader, Edwin Astwood. According to t ...

, a political party of the Turks and Caicos Islands *

Southern Democratic Party The Southern Democratic Party ( it, Partito Democratico Meridionale, PDM) was a centrist political party in Italy based in Calabria. The Southern Democratic Party was founded in 2006, as a split from the regional organisation of Democracy is Freed ...

a former political party in Calabria, Italy * Participative Decision Making,

Others

École Polyvalente Deux-Montagnes Polyvalente Deux-Potages (PDM) is a Francophone secondary school in Deux-Montagnes, Quebec, Canada. It is a part of the Commission scolaire de la Seigneurie-des-Mille-Îles (CSSMI). With a little over 2,000 students, PDM is one of the largest com ...

, a high school in Deux-Montagnes, Quebec, Canada * Partial-propensity direct method, a

stochastic simulation A stochastic simulation is a simulation of a system that has variables that can change stochastically (randomly) with individual probabilities.DLOUHÝ, M.; FÁBRY, J.; KUNCOVÁ, M.. Simulace pro ekonomy. Praha : VŠE, 2005. Realizations of these ...

algorithm for chemical reaction networks *

PDM (cycling team) PDM () was a Dutch professional cycling team from 1986 until the end of 1992. Gin-MG was co-sponsor in Spanish races and Cidona was co-sponsor in the 1991 Nissan Classic. The team was sponsored by Philips Dupont Magnetics, a joint venture betwee ...

, the cycling team sponsored by Philips Dupont Magnetics * PDM Group of Institutions (popularly known as PDM) is a Group of Educational Institutions located in India * Penny-drop moment, an abbreviation used by

cryptic crossword A cryptic crossword is a crossword puzzle in which each clue is a word puzzle. Cryptic crosswords are particularly popular in the United Kingdom, where they originated, Ireland, Israel, the Netherlands, and in several Commonwealth nations, includi ...

bloggers * Philips Dupont Magnetics, a joint venture between Philips and DuPont *

Ponta da Madeira Ponta da Madeira is a Brazilian private port, a large iron ore loading port in São Luís, in the Northern part of Brazil, and one of the only terminals in the country suited for the ultra large Valemax ships. In 2020, the port of Ponta da Mad ...

, an enormous deep-water port in northern Brazil *

Polarization-division multiplexing Polarization-division multiplexing (PDM) is a physical layer method for multiplexing signals carried on electromagnetic waves, allowing two channels of information to be transmitted on the same carrier frequency by using waves of two orthogonal ...

* Post-detonation material such as

trinitite Trinitite, also known as atomsite or Alamogordo glass, is the glassy residue left on the desert floor after the plutonium-based Trinity nuclear bomb test on July 16, 1945, near Alamogordo, New Mexico. The glass is primarily composed of arkosic sa ...

formed following nuclear weapon detonations * ''

Prague Daily Monitor The ''Prague Daily Monitor'' is an English-language electronic daily about the Czech Republic. It has been published since 2003. It covers news from Europe, particularly Czech politics, business, society and culture from a variety of sources. ...

'', a newspaper published in the Czech Republic * Precedence Diagram Method, a project scheduling technique *

Predictive maintenance Predictive maintenance techniques are designed to help determine the condition of in-service equipment in order to estimate when maintenance should be performed. This approach promises cost savings over routine or time-based preventive maintenanc ...

, a method for planning equipment maintenance based on their condition *

Product data management Product data management (PDM) should not be confused with product information management (PIM). PDM is the name of a business function within product lifecycle management (PLM) that is denotes the management and publication of product data. In soft ...

Public Domain Mark Public Domain Mark (PDM) is a symbol used to indicate that a work is free of known copyright restrictions and therefore in the public domain. It is analogous to the copyright symbol, which is commonly used to indicate that a work is copyrighted, ...

, a way of distinguishing works that are free of known copyright *

Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual The ''Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual'' (PDM) is a diagnostic handbook similar to the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD) or the ''Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders'' (DSM). Th ...

, a psychoanalytically-oriented manual for use by mental health professionals * PDM-A, modernized version of the RPO-A reactive flamethrower *

M86 Pursuit Deterrent Munition The M86 Pursuit Deterrent Munition (PDM) is a small United States anti-personnel mine intended to be used by special forces to deter pursuing enemy forces. Description The M86 anti-personnel mine is to be deployed as a deterrent munition by speci ...

, a type of anti-personnel mine produced in US {{disambig