PCD may refer to:

Businesses and organizations

Political parties

Democratic Conservative Party The Democratic Conservative Party (Spanish: ''Partido Conservador Demócrata'', PCD) is a Nicaraguan political party with a traditional conservative ideology. The party was formed in 1979. Clemente Guido participated as PCD's presidential cand ...

(Spanish: ''Partido Conservador Demócrata''), in Nicaragua *

Democratic Society Party The Democratic Society Party (, DTP, Kurdish: ''Partiya Civaka Demokratîk'', PCD) was a Kurdish nationalist political party in Turkey. The party considered itself social-democratic and had observer status in the Socialist International. It was c ...

(Kurdish: ''Partiya Civaka Demokratîk''), in Turkey * Party of the Democratic Centre (Spain) *

Christian Democratic Party (France) VIA, the Way of the People (, VIA) is a social conservative and Christian rightist party in France. The party was known as the Forum of Social Republicans (FRS) between 2001 and June 2009 before adopting the name Christian Democratic Party (, ...

(French: ''Parti chrétien-démocrate'') *

Democratic Convergence Party (São Tomé and Príncipe) Democratic Convergence Party may refer to: *Convergence Démocratique, Haiti *Democratic Convergence (Chile) *Democratic Convergence (El Salvador) * Democratic Convergence (Peru) *Democratic Convergence of Catalonia, Spain *Democratic Convergence ...

(Portuguese: ''Partido de Convergência Democrática'') * Democratic Center Party (Mexico) ()

Other organizations

Personal Communications Devices Personal Communications Devices, LLC, also Doing business as, d.b.a. PCD, was a privately held company that worked with wireless technology partners, including List of United States wireless communications service providers, wireless service pr ...

, a mobile phone development and marketing company *

Partnership for Child Development The Partnership for Child Development (PCD) is a research and technical assistance group based at Imperial College London that seeks to improve health and nutrition in school-age children and youth in low-income countries, thereby improving the ...

, an organisation within Imperial College London *

Providence Country Day School The Providence Country Day School (often abbreviated to the initials PCD) is a co-educational independent school founded in 1923. Located in East Providence, Rhode Island, United States, it serves 375 students in grades PreK through 12. The s ...

, in East Providence, Rhode Island, U.S. *

Palestinian Civil Defence The Palestinian Civil Defence (PCD; ) is one of the main branches of the Palestinian Security Services under direct responsibility of the Minister of the Interior. The organization is responsible for emergency services and rescue in areas under ...

, a branch of the Palestinian Security Services.

Science and technology

Biology and medicine

Paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration Paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration (PCD) is a paraneoplastic syndrome associated with a broad variety of tumors including lung cancer, ovarian cancer, breast cancer, Hodgkin’s lymphoma and others. PCD is a rare condition that occurs in less t ...

, a paraneoplastic syndrome *

Phlegmasia cerulea dolens Phlegmasia cerulea dolens (PCD) (literally: 'painful blue inflammation'), not to be confused with preceding phlegmasia alba dolens, is an uncommon severe form of lower extremity deep venous thrombosis (DVT) that obstructs blood outflow from a vein ...

, an uncommon severe form of lower extremity deep venous thrombosis *

Primary ciliary dyskinesia Primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD) is a rare, autosomal recessive genetic ciliopathy, that causes defects in the action of cilia lining the upper and lower respiratory tract, sinuses, Eustachian tube, middle ear, fallopian tube, and flagella of spe ...

, a rare autosomal recessive genetic disorder *

Programmed cell death Programmed cell death (PCD) sometimes referred to as cell, or cellular suicide is the death of a cell (biology), cell as a result of events inside of a cell, such as apoptosis or autophagy. PCD is carried out in a biological process, which usual ...

, the suicide of a cell in a multicellular organism *

Protocatechuate 3,4-dioxygenase In enzymology, a protocatechuate 3,4-dioxygenase () is an enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction : 3,4-dihydroxybenzoate + O2 \rightleftharpoons 3-carboxy-cis,cis-muconate Thus, the two substrates of this enzyme are 3,4-dihydroxybenzoate (p ...

, an enzyme *

Post-coital dysphoria Post-coital tristesse (; PCT), also known as post-coital dysphoria (PCD), is the feeling of sadness, anxiety, agitation or aggression, after orgasm in sexual intercourse or masturbation. Its name comes from Neo-Latin ''postcoitalis'' and French ...

Computing and electronics

* Proximity coupling device, a reader device for NFC Cards in

ISO/IEC 14443 ISO/IEC 14443 ''Identification cards – Contactless integrated circuit cards – Proximity cards'' is an international standard that defines proximity cards used for identification, and the transmission protocols for communicating with it. The ...

Photo CD Photo CD is a system designed by Kodak for digitizing and saving photos onto a CD. Launched in 1991, the discs were designed to hold nearly 100 high quality images, scanned prints and slides using special proprietary encoding. Photo CDs are d ...

, a system designed by Kodak in 1991 **

Picture CD Picture CD is a product by Kodak, following on from the earlier Photo CD product. It holds photos from a single roll of color film, stored at 1024×1536 resolution using JPEG compression. The product is aimed at consumers. Software to view and p ...

, a later Kodak product *

Process control daemon Process Control Daemon (PCD) is an open source, light-weight system level Process management (computing), process manager/controller for Embedded Linux based projects (such as consumer electronics and network devices). This tool provides a complem ...

, an open-source process controller * Point Cloud Data, a file format for

Point Cloud Library The Point Cloud Library (PCL) is an open-source library of algorithms for point cloud processing tasks and 3D geometry processing, such as occur in three-dimensional computer vision. The library contains algorithms for filtering, feature estimati ...

Other uses in science and technology

Polycrystalline diamond A synthetic diamond or laboratory-grown diamond (LGD), also called a lab-grown, laboratory-created, man-made, artisan-created, artificial, or cultured diamond, is a diamond that is produced in a controlled technological process, in contrast to ...

, artificial diamond

Music

The Pussycat Dolls The Pussycat Dolls were an American girl group and dance ensemble, founded in Los Angeles, California, by choreographer Robin Antin in 1995 as a neo-burlesque troupe. At the suggestion of Jimmy Iovine, Antin decided to take the troupe mainstrea ...

, an American girl group and dance ensemble ** ''PCD'' (album), 2005 *

Phillips, Craig and Dean Phillips, Craig and Dean (rendered as Phillips, Craig & Dean on albums) is a contemporary Christian music trio (music), trio composed of pastors Randy Phillips, Shawn Craig, and Dan Dean. Since forming in 1991, the group has sold over two milli ...

, a contemporary Christian music trio

Other uses

Picard language Picard ( , also , ) is a ''langue d'oïl'' of the Romance languages, Romance language family spoken in the northernmost of France and parts of Hainaut province, Hainaut province in Belgium. Administratively, this area is divided between the Fr ...

, ISO 639-3 language code pcd *

Pitch Circle Diameter A bolt circle diameter or pitch circle diameter (PCD), sometimes simply called bolt circle or pitch circle, is a common term for when a number of screw holes for bolts are evenly distributed with their centers along an imaginary circle with a giv ...

, a measure of bolt spacing when arranged in a circle *

Process-centered design Process-centered design (PCD) is a design methodology, which proposes a business centric approach for designing user interfaces. Because of the multi-stage business analysis steps involved right from the beginning of the PCD life cycle, it is ...

, in design methodology {{disambiguation