PLD may refer to:

Political parties

* ''Partido de la Liberación Dominicana'' ( Dominican Liberation Party) * Party for Liberties and Development (''Parti pour les Libertés et le Développement''), Chad * Liberal Democratic Party (Angola) * Liberal Democratic Party (Italy) * Liberal Democratic Party (Romania) *

Liberal Democratic Pole The Liberal Democratic Pole (, PLD) was a liberal political party in Italy active during 1994. The PLD was founded by Adriano Teso and Carlo Usiglio, who had left the Segni Pact with the aim of creating a centre-right alliance. The party was ...

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 Phospholipase D (PLD) (EC 3.1.4.4; also known as lipophosphodiesterase II, lecithinase D, choline phosphatase; systematic name: phosphatidylcholine phosphatidohydrolase) is an anesthetic-sensitive and mechanosensitive enzyme of the phospholipa ...

, 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 i ...

, a Spanish space company focused on developing low cost launch vehicles * Polycystic liver disease, 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, the function of a PLD is undefined at the time of m ...

, 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 Washington Capitals * The ISO 639 language code for

Polari Polari () is a form of slang or Cant (language), cant historically used primarily in the United Kingdom by some actors, circus and fairground performers, professional wrestlers, merchant navy sailors, criminals and prostitutes, and particula ...

Product Liability Directive 1985 The Product Liability Directive''85/374/EECis a directive of the Council of the European Communities (now the European Union) which created a regime of strict liability for defective products applicable in all member states of the European Union, ...

, an EU directive that created a regime of strict liability for defective products * The stock symbol for Prologis, a real estate investment trust * Purushottam Laxman Deshpande, Marathi writer and humourist. *

Portslade railway station Portslade railway station is a railway station located in Portslade-by-Sea in the city of Brighton and Hove, East Sussex, England, but located on the western fringes of the village of Aldrington (sometimes known as 'West Hove'). It is down ...

, a railway station in Sussex, England (station code: PLD) * Personal Listening Device, such as mp3 players, smartphones etc. {{Disambiguation, political