PDS

PDS can refer to:

Entertainment

• Partially Deceased Syndrome, a fictional condition in BBC show In the Flesh
• Panzer Dragoon Saga, a 1998 video game

Computing

• Partitioned data sets, IBM
• Passive data structure, another term for record
• Processor Direct Slot, in some old Macintosh computers
• Personal data service, services to let individuals manage their own personal data by themselves
• Program Development System, an early implementation of the DIGITAL Command Language for the IAS operating system.
• Protective distribution system, a safeguarded telecommunication system
• Microsoft BASIC Professional Development System (PDS), a superset of QuickBASIC
• Paradox Development Studios, a game developer subsidiary of Paradox Interactive

Medical

• Paroxysmal depolarizing shift, a pre-seizure interictal neuronal EEG spike in epilepsy.
• Pigment dispersion syndrome, an affliction of the eye
• Polydioxanone, a type of absorbable suture
• Pleomorphic dermal sarcoma, a form of histiocytoma

Political parties

• Party of Democratic Socialism (Partei des Demokratischen Sozialismus), a defunct political party of Germany
• Social Democracy Party of Albania
• Party of Democratic Socialism (India)
• Party of the Sicilians
• Progressive Democrats, a defunct political party of Ireland
• Democratic Party of the Left (Partito Democratico della Sinistra), a defunct political party of Italy
• Senegalese Democratic Party (Parti Démocratique Sénégalais), a political party of Senegal
• Sudanese Democratic Party (Parti Démocratique Soudanais), a defunct political party of Sudan
• Democratic Social Party (Partido Democrático Social), a defunct political party of Brazil
• Prosperous Peace Party (Partai Damai Sejahtera), a political party of Indonesia
• Parti de la Democratie Socialiste, a defunct provincial political party of Quebec, Canada

Schools

• Princeton Day School, New Jersey, US
• Peabody Demonstration School, former school in Nashville, Tennessee, US
• Presbyterian Day School, Memphis, Tennessee, US
• Providence Day School, Charlotte, North Carolina, US
• Patumwan Demonstration School, Srinakharinwirot University, Bangkok, Thailand

Scientific

• Photothermal deflection spectroscopy
• Planetary Data System, a NASA data archive system
• Polydioxanone, a synthetic polymer
• 15-Cis-phytoene desaturase, an enzyme
• Poincaré dodecahedral space

Other

• Particularly dangerous situation, special emphasis phrase in weather bulletins from the National Weather Service
• Piedras Negras International Airport, IATA code PDS
• Precision Drill Squad, an exhibition drill of the Singaporean military
• Product design specification
• Public distribution system, Indian food distribution system
• The Philip DeFranco Show, on YouTube

See also

• Plural of PD (disambiguation)