BFD may refer to:

Agencies

* Bakersfield Fire Department, Bakersfield, California *

Boston Fire Department The Boston Fire Department provides fire services and first responder emergency medical services to the city of Boston, Massachusetts. It also responds to such incidents as motor vehicle accidents, dangerous goods, hazardous material spills, util ...

, Boston, Massachusetts *

Brooklyn Fire Department The Brooklyn Fire Department (BFD) was a professional fire department that provided fire protection and rescue services to the city of Brooklyn, New York (state), New York, within modern-day New York City, from 1869 to 1898. The Brooklyn Fire Dep ...

(former), Brooklyn, New York *

Buffalo Fire Department The Buffalo Fire Department provides fire protection and first responder emergency medical services to the city of Buffalo, New York New York most commonly refers to: * New York (state), a state in the northeastern United States * New York Ci ...

, Buffalo, New York

Computing

Bidirectional Forwarding Detection Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) is a network protocol that is used to detect faults between two routers or switches connected by a link. It provides low-overhead detection of faults even on physical media that doesn't support failure de ...

, a network protocol used to detect faults between devices *

Binary File Descriptor library The Binary File Descriptor library (BFD) is the GNU Project's main mechanism for the portable manipulation of object files in a variety of formats. , it supports approximately 50 file formats and 25 instruction set architectures. History When ...

, the GNU Project's main mechanism for the portable manipulation of object files in a variety of formats *

Binary Format Description language The Binary Format Description (BFD) language is an extension of XSIL which has added conditionals and the ability to reference files by their stream numbers, rather than by their public URLs. A template written in the BFD language can be applied ...

, an extension of XSIL * A virtual music instrument meant to simulate a drumset, released by

FXpansion FXpansion is a Ltd company that produces music software including Geist2, Strobe2, Tremor, Etch, Bloom, Maul and DCAM Dynamics. History FXpansion is a company that develops music software, and was founded in 1999 in London, United Kingd ...

Media

Benelux Film Distributors Benelux Film Distributors, also known as Benelux Film Distributors Home Entertainment, BFD and BFDHE, was a joint venture of various independent film distributors founded in 2006. They marketed a wide range of films in cinemas and on home video i ...

, a joint venture of various independent film distributors * BFD, an annual alternative music festival hosted by the radio station Live 105

Transportation

Bakersfield (Amtrak station) Bakersfield station is an intermodal facility in Bakersfield, California. It is the southern terminus of Amtrak California's '' San Joaquins'' route, with Amtrak Thruway buses continuing to Amtrak stations and bus stops throughout Southern ...

, California (Amtrak station code) * Beaconsfield railway station, Melbourne *

Bradford Regional Airport Bradford Regional Airport is south of Bradford, in Lafayette Township, McKean County, Pennsylvania. It has scheduled airline service subsidized by the Essential Air Service program. The airport is owned by the Bradford Regional Airport Author ...

, Bradford, Pennsylvania (IATA airport code) * Brentford railway station, London, England (National Rail station code)

Other

* Back focal distance or back

focal length The focal length of an Optics, optical system is a measure of how strongly the system converges or diverges light; it is the Multiplicative inverse, inverse of the system's optical power. A positive focal length indicates that a system Converge ...

, in optics *

Bafut language The Bafut language, ''Fut'', is an Eastern Grassfields language of the Niger–Congo languages, and related to Bamum. Oral tradition traces dynastic origins to the Ndobo or Tikari areas. It is spoken by people of Bafut Subdivision, Tuba, in ...

(ISO 639 alpha-3 code: bfd) * BFD Energy Challenger, a professional tennis tournament in Rome, Italy *

Boiler feedwater pump A boiler feedwater pump is a specific type of pump used to pump feedwater into a steam boiler. The water may be freshly supplied or returning condensate produced as a result of the condensation of the steam produced by the boiler. These pumps a ...

, a type of pump used to pump feedwater into a steam boiler * Bounded factorization domain, a particular kind of atomic domain * Budgerigar fledgling disease, a

virus A virus is a submicroscopic infectious agent that replicates only inside the living Cell (biology), cells of an organism. Viruses infect all life forms, from animals and plants to microorganisms, including bacteria and archaea. Viruses are ...

, frequently fatal to caged birds * ''Bund Freier Demokraten'', the German acronym for

Association of Free Democrats The Association of Free Democrats () was a liberal electoral coalition, later party, formed in East Germany on 12 February 1990. It originally consisted of the Liberal Democratic Party, the Free Democratic Party (East Germany) and the German Fo ...

* ''Bundesfreiwilligendienst'' or

Federal volunteers service The Federal Volunteers Service () is a German government program which encourages volunteerism among German and foreign adults of any age for public welfare, especially for social, ecological and cultural engagement. Every person who has finish ...

, Germany * ''

Conker's Bad Fur Day ''Conker's Bad Fur Day'' is a 2001 Platformer, platform game produced by Rare (company), Rare for the Nintendo 64. The game follows Conker the Squirrel, Conker, a greedy, hard-drinking red squirrel who must return home to his girlfriend, Berri, ...

'', a 2001 video game {{disambiguation