title: CPD
text: # CPD
  
  CPD may refer to:
  
  ## Science and technology
  
  * CPD (gene), a human gene encoding the protein Carboxypeptidase D
  * Chronic pulmonary disease, a pathological condition
  * Cephalopelvic disproportion, when the capacity of the pelvis is inadequate to allow the fetus to negotiate the birth canal
  * Cyclobutane pyrimidine dimer, a common UV product
  * Cyclopentadiene, an organic compound
  * Canonical polyadic decomposition, in mathematics
  * Copy/Paste Detector, software to find duplicate computer code
  * Chemical compound, a substance formed by chemical union
  * Cyproterone acetate, a progestin and antiandrogen
  * Conditional probability distribution, a kind of distribution in statistics
  
  ## Organizations
  
  * Centre for Policy Development, an Australian think tank
  * Centre for Policy Dialogue, Bangladesh
  * Centres of Plant Diversity, a classification initiative
  * Commission on Presidential Debates, a US 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)
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * 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  * Construction Products Directive, a repealed EU Directive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 "CPD"
  