- cadmium: a soft bluish-white ductile malleable toxic bivalent metallic element; occurs in association with zinc ores
- four hundred: being one hundred more than three hundred
- candle: the basic unit of luminous intensity adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites; equal to 1/60 of the luminous intensity per square centimeter of a black body radiating at the temperature of 2,046 degrees Kelvin
- certificate of deposit: a debt instrument issued by a bank; usually pays interest
- compact disk: a digitally encoded recording on an optical disk that is smaller than a phonograph record; played back by a laser
- A Compact Disc (also known as a CD) is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store sound recordings exclusively, but later it also allowed the preservation of other types of data. Audio CDs have been commercially available since October 1982. ...
- .cd is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It was created in 1997 as a replacement for the .zr (Zaire) ccTLD, which was phased out and eventually deleted in 2001.
- Album (also known as Compact Disc or Cassette depending on the format) is the fifth studio album by English rock band Public Image Ltd, released on 3 February 1986. ...
- cd, sometimes also available as chdir (change directory), is a command line command to change the current working directory in operating systems such as Unix, DOS, OS/2, AmigaOS (where if a bare path is given, cd is implied), Windows, and Linux. ...
- Cemetery Dance is a literature magazine specializing in dark fantasy and horror. It is published out of Forest Hill, Maryland by Cemetery Dance Publications. It began its run in 1988 and continues to this day. ...
- (CdS) Cadmium sulfide is a chemical compound with the formula CdS. Cadmium sulfide is yellow in colour and is a semiconductor.Egon Wiberg, Arnold Frederick Holleman (2001) , Elsevier ISBN 0123526515 It exists in nature as two different minerals, hexagonal greenockite and cubic hawleyite. ...
- The ISO 3166-1 two-letter (alpha-2) code for Democratic Republic of the Congo
- (CDS) Community Dental Service.
- (CDS) Credit Default Swap.
- (CDS) Circular date Stamp cancel.
- (CDS) County-District-School Coding System
- (cds) In a GenBank DNA sequence entry, "cds" stands for coding sequence. A coding sequence is a subsequence of a DNA sequence that is surmised to encode a gene. A coding sequence begins with an "ATG" and ends with a stop codon. ...
- ("CDS") stands for Circular Date Stamp, the most common sort of postmark put on letters to record their time of entry into the mailstream, or of their receipt at some point along the way.
- (CDS (Central Depository System)) An electronic book entry system used to record and transfer securities. See: Products & Services.
- (CDS (Common Data Set)) a collaborative effort among data providers in the higher education community and publishers as represented by the College Board, Thomson Peterson's, and U.S. News & World Report. ...
- (CDS (Computerized Delivery Sequence)) A postal product that contains all addresses. A customer of the USPS may participate in this product if they have at least 90% of the addresses in a particular ZIP Code. Once certified, the USPS uses the CDS product to maintain the customer's data.
- (CDS (Computerized Delivery Sequence)) Similar to CASS, this is a USPS system that ensures a certain level of accuracy and comprehensiveness in an address file. A CDS-qualified files receive maximum postal discounts, especially for saturation or high-density mailings.
- (CDS) (Credit Default Swap). The 5 year senior CDS spread (market reference) is the insurance premium which makes it possible to be covered during 5 years against the risk of default of a company. ...
- (CDS) Campus Dining Services operates three main dining halls and several specialty food venues around campus.
- (CDS) Centre Democrats. Another extreme right-wing group. Both the above groups are havens for ex-fascists.