title: RTD
text: # RTD
  
  RTD may refer to:
  
  ## Science and technology
  
  * Real-time data
  * Residence time distribution
  * Resonant-tunneling diode
  * Round-trip delay time, in telecommunications
  * Research and development, Research and Technical (or Technological) Development
  * Resistance Temperature Detector, a resistance thermometer; RTD is also used to rate or describe plywood manufacturing processes where RTD sensors significantly reduce the delamination caused by insufficient heating of the plywood during the press cycle.
  
  ## Broadcasting
  
  * Radio Tanzania Dar es Salaam
  * Radio Television of Djibouti (Radiodiffusion Télévision de Djibouti)
  * RT Documentary, an English- and Russian-language TV channel
  * Russell T Davies, Welsh screenwriter and television producer
  
  ## Publications
  
  * RTD info, a European science magazine
  * Richmond Times-Dispatch newspaper, Virginia, US
  
  ## Transportation
  
  * Regional Transportation District, Denver, Colorado, US
  * San Joaquin Regional Transit District, Stockton, California, US
  * Southern California Rapid Transit District, merged into Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * Ready to drink beverage
  * Corner retirement (referee technical decision), in boxing
  * Retired (abbreviation)
  * Right to Die
  * Russell's theory of descriptions
  