cd
candela; candelas.
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cd
1 American-
candela; candelas.
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Also cd. cord; cords.
Cd
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Symbol, Chemistry.
CD
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C/D
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c/d
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c.d.
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C.D.
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CD
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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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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
If someone gave me a country music cd, I would be right to give it to one of my country music loving friends.
From New York Times ● Dec. 15, 2017
“After receiving complaints about some language in The Narrative cd, LifeWay decided to no longer carry it.”
From Washington Post ● Feb. 8, 2017
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From Time ● Jan. 21, 2013
Put 4 over cd, under efg, over h, under ijk and over lm.
From Philippine Mats Philippine Craftsman Reprint Series No. 1 by Miller, Hugo H.
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
Half a dozen invectives against tyranny confiscate Cd.
From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4 by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley
John Blizzard is usually pretty opinionated about whether CD rates will move up or down at any given point in time.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 10, 2026
“She had a CD of western swing from the ’50s and ’40s that she was listening to again and again.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
You want to network and, if you are lucky, you might even find that the person holding the seminar has a great rate on a CD.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 6, 2026
In Episode 5, “Trust Me, I Can Handle Anything,” Elle’s best friend Madison visits Seattle and presses play on the CD player in Elle’s bedroom.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2026
Her mind was a tornado of thoughts and questions and anxiety while she recorded herself playing the violin section of Paganini’s “Cantabile for Violin and Guitar” for the CD she was making for the Beiderman.
From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser
If you think of it today, it would be one large concourse, parallel to the C/D concourse we have today.
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
Their chart currently ranges from busts 32 inches to 40 inches, cups in A/B or C/D, and lengths in petite, regular and tall.
From BusinessWeek ● May 1, 2012
Senator John Cornyn has proposed mandating the sale of at least 66 new F-16 C/D fighters to Taiwan as an amendment to legislation now being considered on the Senate floor.
From Reuters ● Sep. 21, 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 Nye, Bill
He’s now a senior fellow at one of Canada’s leading policy think tanks, the C.D.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 7, 2026
The last major project developed by lumberman and real estate entrepreneur C.D.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 8, 2023
Ken Tumin, founder of DepositAccounts.com, part of LendingTree, cited as one example Hyperion Bank in Philadelphia, which recently ended a promotional offer of 5.5 percent on a 19-month C.D.
From New York Times ● Apr. 21, 2023
But you should also check the fine print before you open the C.D.,
From New York Times ● Apr. 21, 2023
A venerable and distinguished teacher and composer is James C.D.
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 Smith, David Eugene
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 Smith, David Eugene
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