CPD

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CPD

  1. Initialism of Chicago Police Department.

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CPD (countable and uncountable, plural CPDs)

  1. Initialism of critical point drying.
    • 1993 October, Brian V. Brown, “A further chemical alternative to critical-point-drying for preparing small (or large) flies”, in Fly Times, number 11:
      Specimens come out exactly like CPD-prepared specimens, ready for SEM or for general mounting for the collection.
  2. Initialism of continuing professional development.
  3. (astronomy, countable) Abbreviation of circumplanetary disk.
    Coordinate term: PPD
  4. (obstetrics) Initialism of cephalopelvic disproportion.

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