SPD (disambiguation)

SPD is the Social Democratic Party of Germany, a political party.

SPD may also refer to:

Science and technology

• Suspended Particle Device, glass or plastic with electrically variable light transmission
• Shimano Pedaling Dynamics, clipless bicycle pedals
• Spectral power distribution, of light
• Surge protection device, for electrical voltages
• Severe plastic deformation
• Symmetric positive definite, in linear algebra
• Short-path distillation
• Spin Physics Detector, a component of the planned NICA particle accelerator near Moscow, Russia

Computing

• Security Policy Database, rules in an IPsec implementation, for example in a High Assurance Internet Protocol Encryptor
• Serial presence detect, a method to access memory module information
• SharePoint Designer, an interface for designing in Microsoft SharePoint
• Short Payment Descriptor, a compact textual data format (a MIME/file type) for an easy exchange of a payment information, using smart phones or NFC devices; a standard for QR code payments
• SPD (Systems Product Division) bus, an I/O bus used in the IBM 9370 and IBM AS/400 systems.

Medicine

• Schizoid personality disorder, a personality disorder
• Sadistic personality disorder, a personality disorder
• Split personality disorder, an alternative name for dissociative identity disorder, a mental disorder.
• Semantic pragmatic disorder, a pervasive developmental disorder
• Symphysis pubis dysfunction, pelvic joint pain during pregnancy or childbirth
• Sensory processing disorder, a neurological disorder
• Sterile processing department, where surgical instruments are sterilized
• Salmon poisoning disease

Organisations

• Freedom and Direct Democracy, a Czech political party
• Social Democratic Party of Germany, a German political party
• Serbian Movement Dveri (Srpski pokret Dveri), a political party in Serbia
• Nintendo Software Planning & Development
• Salym Petroleum Development, a petroleum company in Russia
• Scuola Politecnica di Design, a Milan-based postgraduate design school
• Small Press Distribution, distributor for literary publishers, Berkeley, California, US
• Shanghai Pudong Development Bank, or SPD Bank, China

Police

• Sacramento Police Department
• Sanford Police Department
• Sarasota Police Department
• Seattle Police Department
• Springfield Police Department (disambiguation)
• Southern Police District

Fiction

• Space Patrol Delta, an organization in Power Rangers S.P.D.
• Special Police Dekaranger, an organization in Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger

Other uses

• "S.P.D." (song)
• Saidpur Airport (IATA code), Bangladesh
• Supplementary planning document, in UK local development framework

See also

• Schizotypal personality disorder (STPD)
• SDP (disambiguation)