cd
candela; candelas.
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cd
1 American-
candela; candelas.
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Also cd. cord; cords.
Cd
2
American
Symbol, Chemistry.
CD
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American
C/D
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American
Or
c/d
abbreviation
c.d.
5
American
abbreviation
C.D.
6
American
CD
1
British
abbreviation
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compact disc
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Civil Defence (Corps)
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Corps Diplomatique (Diplomatic Corps)
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Conference on Disarmament: a United Nations standing conference, held in Geneva, to negotiate a global ban on chemical weapons
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Also: C.D.. (in the US and Canada) certificate of deposit
Cd
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symbol
cd
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cd
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c/d
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“Instead he was released 6 yrs later without Parole Board assessment. How cd this be allowed to happen?” asked Cooper.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 30, 2019
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From Time ● Jan. 21, 2013
I cd feel the change as they dripped in.
From New York Times ● Dec. 30, 2010
They called the police on me It's legal and I just bring the cd down to the police station and There's the proof on video with sound!
From Salon ● May 27, 2010
Step 1 of Plate XVI shows the first colored panel, straw ab placed between cd, the space between x and y having been already woven, as shown in step 11.
From Philippine Mats Philippine Craftsman Reprint Series No. 1 by Hugo H. Miller
As much as I honor the Sportback’s super-clean aero efficiency of 0.24 Cd, this presentation comes dangerously close to chintzy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 24, 2025
A bird flies in front of the Cd Projekt logo at its headquarters in Warsaw, Poland January 21, 2020.
From Reuters ● Jul. 21, 2021
Which of the following atoms would be expected to form negative ions in binary ionic compounds and which would be expected to form positive ions: Br, Ca, Na, N, F, Al, Sn, S, Cd?
From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019
Metals that crystallize in an HCP structure include Cd, Co, Li, Mg, Na, and Zn, and metals that crystallize in a CCP structure include Ag, Al, Ca, Cu, Ni, Pb, and Pt.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019
Similarly As and Au in Cd appear to be triatomic, and Sn in Pb tetratomic.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various
By night, he’s the Batman of abandoned pop music, wielding his power of impeccable but persistent email etiquette to resuscitate the songs that sit unheard in CD racks around the world.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026
"Heartbroken, with a lump in our throats and unable to believe this is true, CD Tenerife announces the tragic death of Jesus de Miguel Alameda," a club statement said.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
A well-structured CD ladder, in addition to other more readily available sources, is also a good idea.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 2026
He details an early CD release party at length, where the more established Kid Rock showed up to lend support to the emerging rapper.
From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2026
I had two middlemen working for me in my CD business, Sizwe and Tim.
From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah
A: If you’re familiar with the C/D concourse — that’s the United Concourse — when that was built, it was built as a “temporary facility.”
From Washington Post ● Aug. 27, 2022
Washington State’s varsity four won its repechage heat to move on to the A/B semifinals, while the varsity eight and second varsity eight moved on to their respective C/D semifinals.
From Seattle Times ● May 25, 2018
As a result, I went from a C/D student to a straight A student.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 9, 2013
Under the agreement, Taiwan’s A/B versions of the F-16 will be overhauled and given most of the capabilities of more advanced C/D models of the plane, including all-weather navigation and offensive firepower.
From BusinessWeek ● Oct. 12, 2011
Washington has balked since 2006 at releasing the F-16 C/D, which carries a more powerful engine, advanced cockpit controls and updated display and radar technology.
From Reuters ● Sep. 20, 2011
All these things add to the general interest, and to acquire interest in one way or another is the mission of the c.d.
From Remarks by Bill Nye
He’s now a senior fellow at one of Canada’s leading policy think tanks, the C.D.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 7, 2026
The government’s announcement came at about the same time as the release of a study from the C.D.
From New York Times ● Jan. 20, 2024
The last major project developed by lumberman and real estate entrepreneur C.D.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 8, 2023
But you should also check the fine print before you open the C.D.,
From New York Times ● Apr. 21, 2023
To have and to hold the said released premises unto the said C.D., and his heirs and assigns forever.
From Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman by Albert Sidney Bolles
It easily follows that the continued fraction is incommensurable if a/b, c/d, etc., being at first greater than unity, become and continue less than unity after some one point.
From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II by David Eugene Smith
We say that we may substitute for the older form of proportion, namely, a : b = c : d, the fractional form a/b = c/d.
From The Teaching of Geometry by David Eugene Smith
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