BD, Bd or bd may refer to:

In arts and entertainment

* B. D. (Doonesbury), a major character in the ''Doonesbury'' comic strip * ''

Bande dessinée (singular ; literally 'drawn strips'), abbreviated BDs and also referred to as Franco-Belgian comics (), are comics that are usually originally in French and created for readership in France and Belgium. These countries have a long tradition ...

'' (or "bédé"), a French term for

comics a Media (communication), medium used to express ideas with images, often combined with text or other visual information. It typically the form of a sequence of Panel (comics), panels of images. Textual devices such as speech balloons, Glo ...

Bass drum The bass drum is a large drum that produces a note of low definite or indefinite pitch. The instrument is typically cylindrical, with the drum's diameter usually greater than its depth, with a struck head at both ends of the cylinder. The head ...

, in sheet music notation *

Brahe Djäknar (), also referred to as simply , abbreviated BD, is a Swedish-speaking population of Finland, Finland-Swedish academic Male voice choir, male voice choir in Turku, Finland. Overview The choir was founded in 1937 and was directed by John Ros ...

, a Finnish choir * Broder Daniel, a Swedish indie pop band * ''

Ben Drowned ''Ben Drowned'' (originally published as ''Haunted Majora's Mask Cartridge'') is a three-part multimedia alternate reality game (ARG) web serial and web series created by Alex Hall (author), Alexander D. Hall under the pen name Jadusable. Origin ...

'', a web serial and

web series A web series (also known as webseries, short-form series, and web show) is a series of short scripted or non-scripted online videos, generally in episodic form, released on the Internet (i.e. World Wide Web), which first emerged in the late 1 ...

, focused on the character of the same name * ВD, shorthand name for the Russian gaming magazine, ''

Velikij Drakon ''Velikiy Drakon'' ( lit. "Great Dragon") is a defunct Russian video game magazine initially launched as ''Video-Ace Dendy'' () in 1993. The magazine was Russia's first wholly video-game-oriented magazine, and it was launched in order to meet th ...

'', where the "В" character is actually the Russian letter "ve". *

Bette Davis Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis (; April 5, 1908 – October 6, 1989) was an American actress of film, television, and theater. Regarded as one of the greatest actresses in Hollywood history, she was noted for her willingness to play unsympatheti ...

's production company

In business

Business / Technology

* B&D Australia, manufacturing company *

Big data Big data primarily refers to data sets that are too large or complex to be dealt with by traditional data processing, data-processing application software, software. Data with many entries (rows) offer greater statistical power, while data with ...

, a marketing term for technology of large data sets *

Broker-dealer In financial services, a broker-dealer is a natural person, company or other organization that engages in the business of trading securities for its own account or on behalf of its customers. Broker-dealers are at the heart of the securities and ...

Business day A business day normally means any day except a legal holiday. It may also mean a business day of operation, any of the days an organization operates. It depends on the local workweek which is dictated by local customs, religions, and business ...

, a day of the week on which business is conducted *

Business development Business development entails tasks and processes to develop and implement growth opportunities within and between business organizations. It is a subset of the fields of business, commerce and organizational theory. Business development is the cre ...

, techniques aimed at attracting customers and penetrating markets *

Business directory A business directory is a website or print media, printed listing of information which lists businesses within niche based categories. Businesses can be categorized by niche, location, activity, or size. Business may be compiled either manually ...

, a website or printed listing of information which lists all businesses within some category

Businesses

* Bad Dragon, an American manufacturer of fantasy-themed sex toys *

Becton Dickinson Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD; also Becton Dickinson or Becton) is an American multinational medical technology company that manufactures and sells medical devices, instrument systems, and reagents. BD also provides consulting and analytic ...

(BD.com), an American manufacturer of medical supplies *

BMI (airline) British Midland Airways Limited (trading at various times throughout its history as British Midland, bmi British Midland, bmi or British Midland International) was an airline in the United Kingdom with its head office in Donington Hall in Cast ...

, or British Midland Airways (IATA airline code BD until 2012) * ''

Building Design Building design, also called architectural design, refers to the broadly based architectural, engineering and technical applications to the design of buildings. All building projects require the services of a building designer, typically a licen ...

'', a British architectural magazine * Cambodia Bayon Airlines (IATA airline code BD from 2014)

Places

Bangladesh Bangladesh, officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by population, eighth-most populous country in the world and among the List of countries and dependencies by ...

, (ISO 3166-1 country code BD) ** .bd, the country top-level domain for Bangladesh *

BD postcode area The BD postcode area, also known as the Bradford postcode area,Royal Mail, ''Address Management Guide'', (2004) is a group of 24 postcode districts in England, within seven post towns. These cover northwestern West Yorkshire (including Bradford, ...

, UK, for Bradford, West Yorkshire, and the surrounding area *

Bermuda Bermuda is a British Overseas Territories, British Overseas Territory in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean. The closest land outside the territory is in the American state of North Carolina, about to the west-northwest. Bermuda is an ...

, where "BD" is the FIPS PUB 10-4 territory code and obsolete NATO country code *

Brunei Darussalam Brunei, officially Brunei Darussalam, is a country in Southeast Asia, situated on the northern coast of the island of Borneo. Apart from its coastline on the South China Sea, it is completely surrounded by the Malaysian state of Sarawak, with ...

, where "BD" is the World Meteorological Organization country code *

Burundi Burundi, officially the Republic of Burundi, is a landlocked country in East Africa. It is located in the Great Rift Valley at the junction between the African Great Lakes region and Southeast Africa, with a population of over 14 million peop ...

, LOC MARC code

In science and technology

In computing

Baud In telecommunications and electronics, baud (; symbol: Bd) is a common unit of measurement of symbol rate, which is one of the components that determine the speed of communication over a data channel. It is the unit for symbol rate or modulat ...

(''Bd''), an information unit * %BD, the URL encoded version of the

one half One half is the multiplicative inverse of 2. It is an irreducible fraction with a numerator of 1 and a denominator of 2. It often appears in mathematical equations, recipes and measurements. As a word One half is one of the few fractions ...

(½) symbol *

, data sets that are so large or complex that traditional data processing applications are inadequate *

Blu-ray Disc Blu-ray (Blu-ray Disc or BD) is a Digital media, digital optical disc data storage format designed to supersede the DVD format. It was invented and developed in 2005 and released worldwide on June 20, 2006, capable of storing several hours of ...

, a high density blue laser optical disc format, or the successor of DVD ** BD+, a component of the Blu-ray Disc Digital Rights Management system

In biology and medicine

* '' Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis'', a fungus that causes the fatal amphibian disease chytridiomycosis * BD butterfly, ''Callicore cynosura'' *

Bipolar disorder Bipolar disorder (BD), previously known as manic depression, is a mental disorder characterized by periods of Depression (mood), depression and periods of abnormally elevated Mood (psychology), mood that each last from days to weeks, and in ...

, a mood disorder * "Bis die" (Latin for "twice a day"; also Bid (Medical): "bis in diem") an indication that a medication needs to be taken twice a day

Other uses in science and technology

Bonner Durchmusterung In astronomy, Durchmusterung or Bonner Durchmusterung (BD) is an astrometric star catalogue of the whole sky, published by the Bonn Observatory in Germany from 1859 to 1863, with an extension published in Bonn in 1886. The name comes from ('run-t ...

, a 19th-century star catalog

Other uses

Bachelor of Divinity In Western universities, a Bachelor of Divinity or Baccalaureate in Divinity (BD, DB, or BDiv; ) is an academic degree awarded for a course taken in the study of divinity or related disciplines, such as theology or, rarely, religious studies. ...

, an academic degree *

Bandung railway station Bandung Station (BD) (, ) or Hall Station (''Stasiun Hall'') is the largest train station in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia. Managed by Kereta Api Indonesia and its subsidiary KAI Commuter, it serves as the main station for Operational Area II Ba ...

, West Java, Indonesia (station code: BD) *

Battle Dress A combat uniform, also called a field uniform, battledress, or fatigues, is a casual uniform used by military, police, fire, and other public uniformed services for everyday fieldwork and duty, as opposed to dress uniforms for formal function ...

, a British military uniform *

Black Disciples The Black Disciples (often abbreviated as the BD's) is an African-American street gang that originated in Chicago, Illinois. History In 1958, a group of young teenagers from the Hyde Park, Englewood, and Kenwood areas of Chicago form ...

, a black street gang based in Chicago, United States * Bloor-Danforth, a subway line in Toronto, Canada * ''

Bondage (BDSM) Bondage, in the BDSM subculture, is the practice of Consent, consensually tying, binding, or restraining a partner for erotic, aesthetic, or somatosensory stimulation. A partner may be physically restrained in a variety of ways, including the ...

and

Discipline (BDSM) Discipline in BDSM is the practice in which the dominant sets rules which the submissive is expected to obey. When rules of expected behaviour are broken, punishment is often used as a means of disciplining. Punishment In BDSM, rules can be mad ...

'', in sexual role-play * Bündnis Deutschland, a minor German political party {{disambiguation