SPD (disambiguation)

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SPD is a common acronym, it may stand for:

• Sacramento Police Department
• Saidpur Airport, IATA code for an airport in Bangladesh
• Saint Patrick's Day, an international Irish and Catholic holiday
• Seattle Police Department
• Serial Presence Detect, a way to store information about the RAM chips on a DIMM module
• Shimano Pedaling Dynamics - A service mark that now defines a common type of "clipless" bicycle pedal for mountain bicycles. Shimano also sells road bicycle pedals under the mark SPD-SL, which are not compatible with the widely-known mountain bike SPD
• Sigma Phi Delta, an international social-professional engineering fraternity
• Small Press Distribution, a non-profit literary arts organization in Berkeley, California
• Social Democratic Party of Germany
• South Pacific Division of Seventh-day Adventists
• Space Patrol Delta, the fictional organization destined to protect the universe in Power Rangers: S.P.D., the 13th Power Rangers incarnation
• Special Police Dekaranger, the fictional police organization in Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger
• Spectral Power Distribution, a general concept applied to a signal in mathematics and physics
• Suspended Particle Device, a technology for varying the light transmission properties of glass and plastics electrically
• Symmetric positive-definite, a property of matrices in mathematics.
• An abbreviation for speed

[edit] Computing

• Serial Presence Detect, in computing, an EEPROM chip on a memory module that contains speed and design information about the module
• Surge Protective Device, a device for surge suppression
• Security Policy Database, a component of an IPsec-stack

[edit] Psychology and medicine related

• Sadistic personality disorder - a personality disorder characterized by cruel and aggressive behaviour
• Semantic pragmatic disorder, a pervasive developmental disorder
• Sensory Processing Disorder - see Sensory Integration Dysfunction
• Schizoid personality disorder is a personality disorder characterized by a lack of interest in social relationships, a tendency towards a solitary lifestyle, and emotional coldness
• Schizotypal personality disorder, schizotypal disorder - personality disorder that is characterized by a need for social isolation, odd behaviour and thinking, and often unconventional beliefs such as being convinced of having extra sensory abilities
• Sleep paralysis disorder, a condition characterized by temporary paralysis of the body shortly after waking up or before falling asleep
• Sociopathic personality disorder - another name for Antisocial personality disorder
• Spondyloperipheral dysplasia - a genetic disorder affecting bone
• Symphysis pubis dysfunction - pelvic joint pain experienced during pregnancy or childbirth