CDI, CDi, CD-i, or .cdi may refer to:
Businesses and organizations
Government and political organizations
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Center for Defense Information
The Center for Defense Information (CDI) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization based in Washington, D.C. It specialized in analyzing and advising on military matters.
History
The Center for Defense Information was founded in 1971 by an indepen ...
, a Washington, D.C. think tank founded in 1972
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Center for Digital Inclusion, originally "Comitê para Democratização da Informática", a non-governmental organization in Brazil
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Centrist Democrat International
The Centrist Democrat International (CDI; , IDC) is a political international inspired by the values of Christian democracy. Until 2001, it was known as the Christian Democrat International (CDI); before 1999, it was known as the Christian Demo ...
, formerly the Christian Democrat International, a political international formed in 1961
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China Development Institute, a Shenzhen, China think tank founded in 1989
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, Mexico's National Commission for the Development of Indigenous Peoples
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California Department of Insurance
The California Department of Insurance (CDI), established in 1868, is the agency charged with overseeing insurance regulations, enforcing statutes mandating consumer protections, educating consumers, and fostering the stability of insurance mark ...
, The State of California insurance regulation department
Schools and colleges
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CDI College, a for-profit college in Canada
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Collège des Ingénieurs, educational institution in France, Germany and Italy
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Control Data Institute, an international technical vocational school created by the American Control Data Corporation
Other businesses
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Camperdown Dairy International, an Australian infant formula company
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CDI Corporation, an engineering services and employment agency in Philadelphia, PA
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Cellular Dynamics International, an American research support company
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Churchill Downs Incorporated
Churchill Downs Incorporated is the parent company of Churchill Downs. The company has evolved from one racetrack in Louisville, Kentucky, to a multi American-state-wide, publicly traded company with racetracks, casinos and an online wagering comp ...
, parent company of Churchill Downs
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Controlled Demolition, Inc., a Phoenix, Maryland firm that specializes in controlled demolition
*Chungdahm Institute, a company in Korea that specializes in teaching English
Economics
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Category Development Index, measures the sales strength of a particular category of product, within a specific market
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Contrat à durée indéterminée, French for open-ended contract, the usual form of employment contract in France
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Child Development Index, a measure of global child poverty
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CREST Depositary Interest
Euroclear UK & International is a UK-based central securities depository that holds UK equities and UK gilts. It operates the CREST system, whose name stands for Certificateless Registry for Electronic Share Transfer. Originally known as CRESTCo ...
, in investing, a form of depositary receipt in the UK
Science and technology
In chemistry, biology and medicine
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Carbonyldiimidazole
1,1'-Carbonyldiimidazole (CDI) is an organic compound with the molecular formula . It is a white crystalline solid. It is often used for the coupling of amino acids for peptide synthesis and as a reagent in organic synthesis.
Preparation
CDI ca ...
, an activating agent used for example for peptide coupling
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diabetes insipidus
Diabetes insipidus (DI) is a condition characterized by large amounts of dilute urine and increased thirst. The amount of urine produced can be nearly 20 liters per day. Reduction of fluid has little effect on the concentration of the urine. ...
, an endocrine disorder
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Clinical documentation improvement, a process of improving healthcare records
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''Clostridioides difficile'' infection, an intestinal disease also known as ''Clostridium difficile'' infection
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Combined drug intoxication
Combined drug intoxication (CDI), or multiple drug intake (MDI), is a cause of death by drug overdose from poly drug use, often implicated in polysubstance dependence.
Risk factors
People who engage in polypharmacy are at an elevated risk o ...
, also known as Multiple Drug Intake (MDI)
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Contact-dependent growth inhibition
Contact-dependent growth inhibition (CDI) is a phenomenon where a bacterial cell may deliver a polymorphic toxin molecule into neighbouring bacterial cells upon direct cell-cell contact, causing growth arrest or cell death.
Discovery
CDI is now ...
, a type of toxin delivery between bacteria which requires direct contact
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Cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor protein
A cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor protein (also known as CKIs, CDIs, or CDKIs) is a protein that inhibits the enzyme cyclin-dependent kinase (CDK) and Cyclin activity by stopping the cell cycle if there are unfavorable conditions, therefore, ac ...
, a protein which inhibits cyclin-dependent kinase
Computing
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Contexts and Dependency Injection
In software engineering, dependency injection is a programming technique in which an object or function receives other objects or functions that it requires, as opposed to creating them internally. Dependency injection aims to separate the conc ...
, a Java standard for the inversion of control design pattern
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CD-i
The Compact Disc-Interactive (CD-I, later CD-i) is a digital optical disc data storage format as well as a hardware platform, co-developed and marketed by Dutch company Philips and Japanese company Sony. It was created as an extension of CDDA ...
, a CD-derived multimedia format, including its players made by Philips
Imaging techniques
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Coherent diffraction imaging
Coherent diffractive imaging (CDI) a computational microscopy method that reconstructs images from coherent diffraction patterns without the use of lenses. It was first experimentally demonstrated in 1999 by Miao and collaborators using synchro ...
, a lensless nanoscale imaging technique
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Current density imaging
Current density imaging (CDI) is an extension of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), developed at the University of Toronto. It employs two techniques for spatially mapping electric current pathways through tissue:
* LF-CDI, low-frequency CDI, the ...
, an extension of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
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Color doppler
Doppler ultrasonography is medical ultrasonography that employs the Doppler effect to perform imaging of the movement of tissues and body fluids (usually blood), and their relative velocity to the probe. By calculating the frequency shift of a ...
imaging, a type of Doppler ultrasonography
In transportation
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Capacitor discharge ignition
Capacitor discharge ignition (CDI) or thyristor ignition is a type of automotive electronic ignition system which is widely used in outboard motors, motorcycles, lawn mowers, chainsaws, small engines, gas turbine-powered aircraft, and some cars ...
or thyristor ignition, a type of electronic ignition system
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Common rail diesel injection, a modern method of fuel injection in diesel engines
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Course deviation indicator
A course deviation indicator (CDI) is an avionics instrument used in aircraft navigation to determine an aircraft's lateral position in relation to a course to or from a radio navigation beacon. If the location of the aircraft is to the left of t ...
, an aircraft navigation instrument
Other uses in science and technology
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Capacitive deionization
Capacitive deionization (CDI) is a technology to deionize water by applying an electrical potential difference over two electrodes, which are often made of porous carbon. In other words, CDI is an electro-sorption method using a combination of a s ...
, a water desalination technology based on the use of electrical field effects
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Common direct injection, a synonym of common rail; a type of fuel injection
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Customer data integration
Data integration refers to the process of combining, sharing, or synchronizing data from multiple sources to provide users with a unified view.
There are a wide range of possible applications for data integration, from commercial (such as when a ...
, a discipline concerned with representation of data in enterprise systems
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Cyrel Digital Imager, a direct laser-engraving flexography plate printing device
*.cdi filename extension, for
DiscJuggler disk images, developed by Padus
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lift-induced drag
Lift-induced drag, induced drag, vortex drag, or sometimes drag due to lift, in aerodynamics, is an aerodynamic drag force that occurs whenever a moving object redirects the airflow coming at it. This drag force occurs in airplanes due to wings or ...
coefficient
Other uses
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Côte d'Ivoire
Ivory Coast, also known as Côte d'Ivoire and officially the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, is a country on the southern coast of West Africa. Its capital city of Yamoussoukro is located in the centre of the country, while its largest city and ...
, a country in West Africa once known as Ivory Coast
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Chief of Defence Intelligence, head of the UK Defence Intelligence Staff
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Ciudad de las Ideas (conference), a conference at Puebla, Mexico
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Custodial Detention Index, a list of U.S. residents compiled by FBI during 1939–1941, later used for Japanese-American internment
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Chak De! India'', a 2007 Bollywood sports film about field hockey in India
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Roman numerals
Roman numerals are a numeral system that originated in ancient Rome and remained the usual way of writing numbers throughout Europe well into the Late Middle Ages. Numbers are written with combinations of letters from the Latin alphabet, eac ...
*Certified Deaf Interpreter, a certificate offered by the
Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf
The Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf, Inc (RID) is a non-profit organization founded on June 16, 1964, and incorporated in 1972, that seeks to uphold standards, ethics, and professionalism for American Sign Language interpreters. RID is curren ...
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