CDS, CDs, Cds, etc. may refer to:

Finance

Canadian Depository for Securities The Canadian Depository for Securities Ltd. (CDS Limited) is the world's second largest post-trade financial services company. It is the holding company for three operating subsidiaries: CDS Clearing and Depository Services Inc., CDS Securities Ma ...

, Canadian post-trade financial services company *

Certificate of deposit A certificate of deposit (CD) is a time deposit sold by banks, thrift institutions, and credit unions in the United States. CDs typically differ from savings accounts because the CD has a specific, fixed term before money can be withdrawn wit ...

(CDs) * Counterfeit Deterrence System, developed by the Central Bank Counterfeit Deterrence Group * Credit default swap (CDS), a type of credit derivative

Military

* Chief Defence Scientist, the head of the Australian Defence Science & Technology *

Chief of the Defence Staff (disambiguation) Chief of (the) Defence Staff may refer to: * Chief of the Defence Staff (Canada) * Chief of the Defence Staff (France) * Chief of the Defence Staff (The Gambia) * Chief of the Defence Staff (Ghana) * Chief of Defence Staff (India) * Chief of the De ...

Chief of the Defence Staff (Canada) Chief of the Defence Staff (CDS; ; ) is the title of the professional head of the Canadian Armed Forces. As the senior military position, the CDS advises the Cabinet, particularly the minister of national defence and the prime minister. The po ...

Chief of the Defence Staff (France) The Chief of the Defence Staff (, CEMA; ) is the military head of the French Armed Forces, Armed Forces of the France, French Republic, overseeing all military operations (under reserve of the particular dispositions relative to Force de dissuas ...

** Chief of the Defence Staff (Ghana) ** Chief of the Defence Staff (India) **

Chief of the Defence Staff (Nigeria) The chief of defence staff (CDS) is the head of the Nigerian Armed Forces and the most senior uniformed military adviser to the minister of defence and the president of Nigeria. The chief of the defence staff is based at the Defence Headquarte ...

** Chief of the Defence Staff, of the

Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces The Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces () are the armed forces of Sierra Leone, responsible for the territorial security of Sierra Leone's borders and defending the national interests of Sierra Leone, within the framework of the 1991 Constit ...

** Chief of the Defence Staff (Sri Lanka) **

Chief of the Defence Staff (United Kingdom) Chief of the Defence Staff (CDS) is the title of the professional head of the British Armed Forces and the most senior uniformed military adviser to the Secretary of State for Defence and the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. The CDS is bas ...

Comprehensive Display System The Comprehensive Display System (CDS) was a command, control, and coordination system of the British Royal Navy (RN) that worked with the detection/search Type 984 radar. The system was installed on a total of six ships starting in 1957. The US ...

, a command, control, and coordination system used by the British Royal Navy in the 1960s to track aircraft * South American Defense Council (''Consejo de Defensa Sudamericano''), of the

Union of South American Nations The Union of South American Nations (USAN), sometimes also referred to as the South American Union, abbreviated in Spanish as UNASUR and in Portuguese as UNASUL, is an intergovernmental regional organization. It was set up by Hugo Chavez to ...

Organizations

* Center for Development and Strategy *

Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg Center or centre may refer to: Mathematics *Center (geometry), the middle of an object * Center (algebra), used in various contexts ** Center (group theory) ** Center (ring theory) * Graph center, the set of all vertices of minimum eccentric ...

, a French astronomical data center *

Centre for Development Studies The Centre for Development Studies (CDS), Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India is a premier Social Science research institute. It is also a higher education institution providing M.A. course in applied economics and PhD course in economics. The i ...

, in India * Commercial Data Systems, a Canadian software publisher *

Conference of Drama Schools The Conference of Drama Schools (CDS) was the organisation which represented the top 21 accredited UK drama schools in the United Kingdom from 1969 until 2012. History Originally founded in 1969 as an educational charitable organization it chang ...

, now part of Drama UK * Cooperative Development Services, a non-profit organization engaged in cooperative development in the US *

Sinaloa Cartel The Sinaloa Cartel (, , after the native Sinaloa region), also known as the ''CDS'', the ''Guzmán-Loera Organization'', the ''Federation'', the ''Sinaloa Cartel'', or the Pacific Cartel, is a large, drug trafficking transnational organized cri ...

(Spanish: ''Cártel de Sinaloa'')

Politics

Campaign for Democratic Socialism The Campaign for Democratic Socialism or CDS was a Social democracy, social democratic and Democratic socialism, democratic socialist organisation in the British Labour Party (UK), Labour Party, serving as a pressure group representing the Right-w ...

, a former group within the British Labour Party; forerunner to the Social Democratic Party * '' Centre des démocrates sociaux'' (Centre of Social Democrats), a French political party; see *

CDS – People's Party The CDS – People's Party (, derived from ''Centro Democrático e Social – Partido Popular'', CDS–PP)

(''Centro Democrático e Social – Partido Popular''), a Portuguese political party * '' Centro Democrático y Social'' (Democratic and Social Centre), a former Spanish political party * '' Convention démocratique et sociale-Rahama'' (Democratic and Social Convention), a political party in Niger

Science

Cadmium sulfide Cadmium sulfide is the inorganic compound with the formula CdS. Cadmium sulfide is a yellow salt.Egon Wiberg, Arnold Frederick Holleman (2001''Inorganic Chemistry'' Elsevier It occurs in nature with two different crystal structures as the rare min ...

(CdS), an inorganic compound * Climate Data Store, a central component of the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) * Chromatography data system, software collecting and analyzing chromatographic results *

Coding DNA sequence The coding region of a gene, also known as the coding DNA sequence (CDS), is the portion of a gene's DNA or RNA that codes for a protein. Studying the length, composition, regulation, splicing, structures, and functions of coding regions compared ...

, that portion of a gene's DNA or RNA, composed of exons, that codes for protein * Correlated double sampling, a method to measure electrical values such as voltages or currents that allows removing an undesired offset * Chlorine Dioxide Solution, a toxic solution of sodium chlorite, falsely promoted as a universal cure *

Cytosolic DNA Sensor The cytosol, also known as cytoplasmic matrix or groundplasm, is one of the liquids found inside cells (intracellular fluid (ICF)). It is separated into compartments by membranes. For example, the mitochondrial matrix separates the mitochondrion ...

, molecule that detects microbial double-stranded DNA in the cytosol and activates signaling pathways that initiate anti-microbial responses

Technology

Current Directory Structure In computing, the working directory of a process (computing), process is a directory (file systems), directory of a hierarchical file system, if any, dynamically associated with the process. It is sometimes called the current working directory (C ...

, an important internal data structure in DOS *

Compact disc The compact disc (CD) is a Digital media, digital optical disc data storage format co-developed by Philips and Sony to store and play digital audio recordings. It employs the Compact Disc Digital Audio (CD-DA) standard and was capable of hol ...

s (CDs) *

CD single A CD single is a single (music), music single in the form of a compact disc (CD). Originally the ''CD single'' standard (as defined in the Rainbow Books, Red Book) was an 8 cm (3-inch) "mini CD" (''CD3''); later on the term referred to any si ...

(CDS), a music single in the form of a standard size compact disc * Cockpit display system * Cross-domain solution, processes that transfer data between security domains * Cinema Digital Sound, a multi-channel surround sound format used for theatrical films in the early 1990s

Other uses

* Common Data Set * Community day school, a school system used in the state of California, US * Coulsdon South railway station, London, England (National Rail station code) *

Country Day School movement The Country Day School movement is a movement in progressive education that originated in the United States during the late 19th century. Country Day Schools sought to recreate the educational rigor, atmosphere, camaraderie and character-building ...

Child-directed speech Baby talk is a type of speech associated with an older person speaking to a child or infant. It is also called caretaker speech, infant-directed speech (IDS), child-directed speech (CDS), child-directed language (CDL), caregiver register, parente ...

, or baby talk * Condensed distillers solubles, also referred to as

distillers grains Distillers grains are a cereal byproduct of the distillation process. Brewer's spent grain usually refers to barley produced as a byproduct of brewing, while distillers grains are a mix of wheat, maize, rice and other grains. There are two ...

, a cereal byproduct of the distillation process * Container delivery system, a system used for

airdrop An airdrop is a type of airlift in which items including weapons, equipment, humanitarian aid or leaflets are delivered by military or civilian aircraft without their landing. Developed during World War II to resupply otherwise inaccessible tr ...

s * Controlled/dangerous substance, as defined by the

Controlled Substances Act The Controlled Substances Act (CSA) is the statute establishing federal government of the United States, federal drug policy of the United States, U.S. drug policy under which the manufacture, importation, possession, use, and distribution of ...

* Combined Defence Services Examination, abbreviated as CDS, Indian military examination * Certified Director of Safety (Designation from NATMI - the North American Transportation Management Institute in conjunction with the University of Central Florida) * Customs Declaration Service, a UK customs management system and planned successor of CHIEF. *

Cognitive disengagement syndrome Cognitive disengagement syndrome (CDS) is a syndrome characterized by developmentally inappropriate, impairing, and persistent levels of decoupled attentional processing from the ongoing external context and resultant hypoactivity. Symptoms oft ...

, an attention disorder that is increasingly thought to be distinct from

ADHD Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterised by symptoms of inattention, hyperactivity, impulsivity, and emotional dysregulation that are excessive and pervasive, impairing in multiple ...