BD
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BD, Bd or bd may refer to:
- B. D. (Doonesbury)B. D. (Doonesbury)B.D. is a fictional character in Garry Trudeau's popular comic strip Doonesbury. In the comic strip, nobody is certain what "B.D." is short for , but he was based on Brian Dowling, quarterback at Yale University, where Trudeau attended college...
, a major character in the Doonesbury comic strip - Bande dessinée (or "bédé"), a French term for comic books or graphic novels
- Broder DanielBroder DanielBroder Daniel was an alternative rock band from Gothenburg, Sweden. They formed in the late 1980s and then consisted of classmates Henrik Berggren and Daniel Gilbert...
, a Swedish indie pop band - Bass DrumBass drumBass drums are percussion instruments that can vary in size and are used in several musical genres. Three major types of bass drums can be distinguished. The type usually seen or heard in orchestral, ensemble or concert band music is the orchestral, or concert bass drum . It is the largest drum of...
, in sheet music notation - Black DynamiteBlack DynamiteBlack Dynamite is a 2009 American film starring Michael Jai White, Salli Richardson, Arsenio Hall, Kevin Chapman and Tommy Davidson. It is a spoof of 1970s blaxploitation films...
, a 2009 American spoof of blaxploitation films
In computing
- BaudBaudIn telecommunications and electronics, baud is synonymous to symbols per second or pulses per second. It is the unit of symbol rate, also known as baud rate or modulation rate; the number of distinct symbol changes made to the transmission medium per second in a digitally modulated signal or a...
(Bd), an information unit - %BD, the Url Encoded version of the half (½) symbol
- Blu-ray DiscBlu-ray DiscBlu-ray Disc is an optical disc storage medium designed to supersede the DVD format. The plastic disc is 120 mm in diameter and 1.2 mm thick, the same size as DVDs and CDs. Blu-ray Discs contain 25 GB per layer, with dual layer discs being the norm for feature-length video discs...
, a high density blue laser optical disc format, or the successor of DVD- BD+BD+BD+ is a component of the Blu-ray Disc Digital Rights Management system. It was developed by Cryptography Research Inc. and is based on their Self-Protecting Digital Content concept...
, a component of the Blu-ray Disc Digital Rights Management system
- BD+
In medicine and pharmacology
- Batrachochytrium dendrobatidisBatrachochytrium dendrobatidisBatrachochytrium dendrobatidis is a chytrid fungus that causes the disease chytridiomycosis. In the decade after it was first discovered in amphibians in 1998, the disease devastated amphibian populations around the world, in a global decline towards multiple extinctions, part of the Holocene...
, the fungus that causes the fatal amphibian disease Chytridiomycosis - "Bis die" (Latin for 'twice a day'), a medication needed to be taken twice in a day (also BID: "Bis in diem")
Places
- BangladeshBangladeshBangladesh , officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh is a sovereign state located in South Asia. It is bordered by India on all sides except for a small border with Burma to the far southeast and by the Bay of Bengal to the south...
, where "BD" is the ISO 3166-1 2-letter country code- .bd.bd.bd is the Internet country code top-level domain for Bangladesh. It is administered by the Ministry of Post & Telecommunications of Bangladesh...
, the country top-level domain for Bangladesh
- .bd
- BermudaBermudaBermuda is a British overseas territory in the North Atlantic Ocean. Located off the east coast of the United States, its nearest landmass is Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, about to the west-northwest. It is about south of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, and northeast of Miami, Florida...
, where "BD" is the FIPS PUB 10-4 territory code and obsolete NATO country code - BradfordBradfordBradford lies at the heart of the City of Bradford, a metropolitan borough of West Yorkshire, in Northern England. It is situated in the foothills of the Pennines, west of Leeds, and northwest of Wakefield. Bradford became a municipal borough in 1847, and received its charter as a city in 1897...
, where "BD" is the United Kingdom postal area for that region - Brunei Darussalam, where "BD" is the World Meteorological Organization country code
Businesses and organizations
- Becton DickinsonBecton DickinsonBecton, Dickinson and Company , is an American medical technology company that manufactures and sells medical devices, instrument systems and reagents. Founded in 1897 and headquartered in Franklin Lakes, New Jersey, BD does business in nearly 50 countries and has 28,803 employees worldwide. In...
, an American manufacturer of medical supplies - BD's Mongolian BarbequeBD's Mongolian BarbequeBD's Mongolian Grill is an American restaurant chain specializing in patron-prepared stir-fry meals in a style known as "Mongolian barbecue". Grillers use 3-foot metal "swords" and cook on an 8-foot diameter gas flat top grill reaching temperatures of 600 degrees Fahrenheit .BD's was founded in...
, an American restaurant chain - Bloor-Danforth, a subway line in Toronto, Canada
- BMI (airline)Bmi (airline)British Midland Airways Limited , is an airline based at Donington Hall in Castle Donington in the United Kingdom, close to East Midlands Airport, and a fully owned subsidiary of Lufthansa...
, IATA airline designator for British Midland Airways - Building DesignBuilding DesignBuilding Design is one of the leading architectural magazines in the United Kingdom.According to ABC , the magazine's circulation for the year ending June 2008 was 22,848. The publishing company is UBM Built Environment, a division of United Business Media, which also publishes Building and...
, a British architectural magazine - Bruin DemocratsBruin DemocratsThe Bruin Democrats is an active political organization on the University of California, Los Angeles campus. The organization is a member of the Young Democrats of America, the College Democrats of America, and the greater Democratic Party ....
, UCLA campus branch of the (U.S.) Democratic Party
Other uses
- Bachelor of DivinityBachelor of DivinityIn Western universities, a Bachelor of Divinity is usually an undergraduate academic degree awarded for a course taken in the study of divinity or related disciplines, such as theology or, rarely, religious studies....
, an academic degree - Bondage (BDSM)Bondage (BDSM)Bondage is the use of restraints for the sexual pleasure of the parties involved. It may be used in its own right, as in the case of rope bondage and breast bondage, or as part of sexual activity or BDSM activity.- Private bondage :...
and Discipline (BDSM)Discipline (BDSM)Discipline is the use of rules and punishment to control overt behavior in BDSM.Punishment can be pain caused physically , humiliation caused psychologically or loss of freedom caused physically...
, in sexual role-play - Business DevelopmentBusiness developmentA subset of the field of commerce, business development comprises a number of techniques and responsibilities which aim at:1. Researching new types of business/products/services with an emphasis on identifying gaps in the mitigation of needs of potential clients .2. Attracting new customers3...
, techniques aimed at attracting customers and penetrating markets