CPD

CPD may refer to:

Organizations

• Centre for Policy Development, an Australian think tank
• Centre for Policy Dialogue, Bangladesh
• Centres of Plant Diversity, an international classification initiative
• Commission on Presidential Debates, an American nonprofit
• Committee on the Present Danger, an American foreign policy interest group

Police

• Cambridge Police Department (Massachusetts)
• Camden Police Department (New Jersey), a defunct police department dissolved in 2012
• Carmel Police Department (Indiana)
• Charleston Police Department (West Virginia)
• Chattanooga Police Department, Tennessee
• Chicago Police Department, Illinois
• Cincinnati Police Department, Ohio
• Cleveland Police Department, Ohio
• Columbus Police Department, Ohio
• Town of Carmel Police Department (New York)

Science and technology

• CPD (gene), a human gene encoding the protein Carboxypeptidase D
• Canonical polyadic decomposition, in mathematics
• Cephalopelvic disproportion, when the capacity of the pelvis is inadequate to allow the fetus to negotiate the birth canal
• Chronic pulmonary disease, a pathological condition
• Conditional probability distribution, a kind of distribution in statistics
• Copy/Paste Detector, software to find duplicate computer code
• Cyclobutane pyrimidine dimer, a common UV product
• Cyclopentadiene, an organic compound
• Cyproterone acetate, a progestin and antiandrogen

Other uses

• Camperdown railway station, Australia
• Carnet de Passages en Douane, a customs document
• Collaborative product development, in business
• The Constitutional Practice and Discipline of the Methodist Church of Great Britain
• Construction Products Directive, a repealed EU Directive
• Continuing professional development
• Danio margaritatus (also known as the Celestial Pearl Danio), a fish native to Southeast Asia
• Coober Pedy Airport, IATA airport code
• Crush protection device (CPD), an alternative to roll bar mandatory on all new Australian ATV's

See also

• Congress of People's Deputies (disambiguation)