PCD

PCD may refer to:

Science and technology

• Polycrystalline diamond, artificial diamond
• Pitch circle diameter, in mechanical drawing; See Wheel sizing
• Proximity coupling device, a reader device for NFC Cards in ISO/IEC 14443

Biology and medicine

• Paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration, an autoimmune degradation of the central nervous system
• Primary ciliary dyskinesia, a rare autosomal recessive genetic disorder
• Programmed cell death, the suicide of a cell in a multicellular organism
• Protein C deficiency, a rare genetic disorder increasing the likelihood of thrombotic disease
• Protocatechuate 3,4-dioxygenase, an enzyme used for improving organic fluorophore-stability.
• Phlegmasia cerulea dolens (PCD)

Computing

• Photo CD, a system designed by Kodak, launched in 1992
  • Picture CD, a later Kodak product
• Process control daemon, an open-source process controller for embedded Linux
• Portable computing device, small computers for mobile computing
• Point Cloud Data, a file format for Point Cloud Library

ETC

Music

• The Pussycat Dolls, an American pop and R&B, and dance and burlesque ensemble
  • PCD (album), their debut album
• Phillips, Craig and Dean, a Contemporary Christian Music trio

Organizations

• Personal Communications Devices, a mobile phone development and marketing company
• Partnership for Child Development, an academic organisation within Imperial College London, formed in 1992
• Providence Country Day School, a private middle and high school located in East Providence, Rhode Island

Politics

• Partido Conservador Demócrata (Democratic Conservative Party), a political party in Nicaragua
• Democratic Society Party (Kurdish: Partiya Civaka Demokratîk), a former Kurdish social democratic party in Turkey
• Party of the Democratic Centre (Spain)
• Christian Democratic Party (France) (French: Parti chrétien-démocrate), a minor French conservative party
• Democratic Convergence Party – Reflection Group (Portuguese: Partido de Convergência Democrática), a political party in São Tomé and Príncipe

Other uses

• Picard language (ISO 639-3 language code), a French dialect
• Pitch Circle Diameter (disambiguation)
• Process-centered design, a business-centric design methodology for user interfaces