ECD may refer to:
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Early childhood development
Early childhood development is the period of rapid physical, psychological and social growth and change that begins before birth and extends into early childhood. While early childhood is not well defined, one source asserts that the early years b ...
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Endocardial Cushion Defect Heart structural defect
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Eastern Caribbean dollar
The Eastern Caribbean dollar (currency symbol, symbol: EC$; ISO 4217, code: XCD) is the currency of all seven full members and one associate member of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS). The successor to the British West Indies d ...
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Eastern Continental Divide
The Eastern Continental Divide, Eastern Divide or Appalachian Divide is a drainage divide, hydrological divide in eastern North America that separates the easterly Atlantic Seaboard drainage basin, watershed from the westerly Gulf of Mexico wat ...
in North America
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ECD (gene)
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E. C. Drury School for the Deaf, in Milton, Ontario, Canada
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Electronic Commerce Directive 2000
The Electronic Commerce Directive2000/31/EC in EU law sets up an Internal Market framework for online services. Its aim is to remove obstacles to cross-border online services in the EU internal market and provide legal certainty for businesses ...
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Electronic Control Device, a TASER or stun gun
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Economic Crime Department of the City of London Police
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Electron capture detector
An electron capture detector (ECD) is a device for detecting atoms and molecules in a gas through the attachment of electrons via electron capture ionization. The device was invented in 1957 by James Lovelock and is used in gas chromatography to ...
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Electron-capture dissociation
Electron-capture dissociation (ECD) is a method of fragmenting gas-phase ions for structure elucidation of peptides and proteins in tandem mass spectrometry. It is one of the most widely used techniques for activation and dissociation of mass s ...
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Electronic civil disobedience
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Energy Citations Database, maintained by the United States Department of Energy
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Energy Conversion Devices
Energy Conversion Devices, Inc. (ECD) was an American photovoltaics manufacturer of thin-film solar cells made of amorphous silicon used in flexible laminates and in building-integrated photovoltaics. The company was also a manufacturer of Nicke ...
, an American photovoltaics manufacturer
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English country dance, a type of social dance
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Equine Cushing's disease
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Erdheim–Chester disease
Erdheim–Chester disease (ECD) is an extremely rare disease classified as a non- Langerhans-cell histiocytic neoplasm. In 2016, the World Health Organization (WHO) defined ECD as a slow-growing blood cancer that may originate in the bone marrow o ...
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Evidence Centered Design, a meta-framework for the design, development and implementation of assessments
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Expanded criteria donor, a class of organ donors
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Explanatory combinatorial dictionary
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ECD Corporation, a defunct computer and electronics company
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