CPD

English

Proper noun

CPD

1. Initialism of Chicago Police Department.
   • 2024 April 24, Family of Chicago man fatally shot by police files federal civil rights lawsuit against city and tactical officers, CNN‎^[1]:

     “Defendant Officers violated numerous laws and CPD policies during their encounter with Dexter. The initial stop was unlawful and pretextual. Defendant Officers had no reasonable suspicion that Dexter violated any law, and they falsely stated otherwise in official CPD reports,” the suit states.

Noun

CPD (countable and uncountable, plural CPDs)

1. Initialism of critical point drying.
   • 1993 October, Brian V. Brown, “A further chemical alternative to critical-point-drying for preparing small (or large) flies”, in Fly Times, number 11:

     Specimens come out exactly like CPD-prepared specimens, ready for SEM or for general mounting for the collection.

2. Initialism of continuing professional development.
3. (astronomy, countable) Abbreviation of circumplanetary disk.

   Coordinate term: PPD

4. (obstetrics) Initialism of cephalopelvic disproportion.

See also

• critical point drying on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• CDP, DPC, P&DC, PCD, PDC