BD

BD, Bd or bd may refer to:

In arts and entertainment

• B. D. (Doonesbury), a major character in the Doonesbury comic strip
• Bande dessinée (or "bédé"), a French term for comics
• Bass drum, in sheet music notation
• Brahe Djäknar, a Finnish choir
• Broder Daniel, a Swedish indie pop band
• Ben Drowned, a web serial and web series, focused on the character of the same name
• ВD, shorthand name for the Russian gaming magazine, Velikij Drakon, where the "В" character is actually the Russian letter "ve".
• Bette Davis's production company

In business

Business / Technology

• Big data, a marketing term for technology of large data sets
• Business day, a day of the week on which business is conducted
• Business development, techniques aimed at attracting customers and penetrating markets
• Business directory, a website or printed listing of information which lists all businesses within some category

Businesses

• Bad Dragon, an American manufacturer of fantasy-themed sex toys
• Becton Dickinson (BD.com), an American manufacturer of medical supplies
• BMI (airline), or British Midland Airways (IATA airline code BD until 2012)
• Building Design, a British architectural magazine
• Cambodia Bayon Airlines (IATA airline code BD from 2014)

Places

• BD postcode area, UK, for Bradford, West Yorkshire, and the surrounding area
• Bangladesh, (ISO 3166-1 country code BD)
  • .bd, the country top-level domain for Bangladesh
• Bermuda, where "BD" is the FIPS PUB 10-4 territory code and obsolete NATO country code
• Brunei Darussalam, where "BD" is the World Meteorological Organization country code

In science and technology

In computing

• Baud (Bd), an information unit
• %BD, the URL encoded version of the one half (½) symbol
• Big data, data sets that are so large or complex that traditional data processing applications are inadequate
• Blu-ray Disc, a high density blue laser optical disc format, or the successor of DVD
  • BD+, a component of the Blu-ray Disc Digital Rights Management system

In biology and medicine

• Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, a fungus that causes the fatal amphibian disease chytridiomycosis
• BD butterfly, Callicore cynosura
• Bipolar disorder, a mood disorder
• "Bis die" (Latin for "twice a day"; also Bid (Medical): "bis in diem") an indication that a medication needs to be taken twice a day

Other uses in science and technology

• Bonner Durchmusterung, a 19th-century star catalog

Other uses

• Bachelor of Divinity, an academic degree
• Battle Dress, a British military uniform
• Bloor-Danforth, a subway line in Toronto, Canada
• Bondage (BDSM) and Discipline (BDSM), in sexual role-play