CDS

CDS, CDs, Cds, etc. may refer to:

Finance

 * Canadian Depository for Securities, Canadian post-trade financial services company
 * Certificate of deposit (CDs)
 * Counterfeit Deterrence System, developed by the Central Bank Counterfeit Deterrence Group
 * Credit default swap (CDS), a type of credit derivative

Military

 * Chief Defence Scientist, the head of the Australian Defence Science & Technology
 * Chief of the Defence Staff (disambiguation)
 * Chief of the Defence Staff (Canada)
 * Chief of the Defence Staff (France)
 * Chief of the Defence Staff (Ghana)
 * Chief of the Defence Staff (India)
 * Chief of the Defence Staff (Nigeria)
 * Chief of the Defence Staff, of the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces
 * Chief of the Defence Staff (Sri Lanka)
 * Chief of the Defence Staff (United Kingdom)
 * Comprehensive Display System, a command, control, and coordination system used by the British Royal Navy in the 1960s to track aircraft
 * South American Defense Council (Consejo de Defensa Sudamericano), of the Union of South American Nations

Organizations

 * Canadian Depository for Securities
 * Center for Development and Strategy
 * Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg, a French astronomical data center
 * Centre for Development Studies, in India
 * Commercial Data Systems, a Canadian software publisher
 * Conference of Drama Schools, now part of Drama UK
 * Cooperative Development Services, a non-profit organization engaged in cooperative development in the US
 * Sinaloa Cartel (Spanish: Cártel de Sinaloa)

Politics

 * Campaign for Democratic Socialism, a former group within the British Labour Party; forerunner to the Social Democratic Party
 * Centre des démocrates sociaux (Centre of Social Democrats), a French political party; see
 * CDS – People's Party (Centro Democrático e Social – Partido Popular), a Portuguese political party
 * Centro Democrático y Social (Democratic and Social Centre), a former Spanish political party
 * Convention démocratique et sociale-Rahama (Democratic and Social Convention), a political party in Niger

Science

 * Cadmium sulfide (CdS), an inorganic compound
 * Climate Data Store, a central component of the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S)
 * Chromatography data system, software collecting and analyzing chromatographic results
 * Coding DNA sequence, that portion of a gene's DNA or RNA, composed of exons, that codes for protein
 * Correlated double sampling, a method to measure electrical values such as voltages or currents that allows removing an undesired offset
 * Chlorine Dioxide Solution, a toxic solution of sodium chlorite, falsely promoted as a universal cure
 * Cytosolic DNA Sensor, molecule that detects microbial double-stranded DNA in the cytosol and activates signaling pathways that initiate anti-microbial responses

Technology

 * Current Directory Structure, an important internal data structure in DOS
 * Compact discs (CDs)
 * CD single (CDS), a music single in the form of a standard size compact disc
 * Cockpit display system
 * Cross-domain solution, processes that transfer data between security domains
 * Cinema Digital Sound, a multi-channel surround sound format used for theatrical films in the early 1990s

Other uses

 * Common Data Set
 * Community day school, a school system used in the state of California, US
 * Coulsdon South railway station, London, England (National Rail station code)
 * Country Day School movement
 * Child-directed speech, or baby talk
 * Condensed distillers solubles, also referred to as distillers grains, a cereal byproduct of the distillation process
 * Container delivery system, a system used for airdrops
 * Controlled/dangerous substance, as defined by the Controlled Substances Act
 * Combined Defence Services Examination, abbreviated as CDS, Indian military examination
 * Certified Director of Safety (Designation from NATMI - the North American Transportation Management Institute in conjunction with the University of Central Florida)
 * Customs Declaration Service, a UK customs management system and planned successor of CHIEF.
 * Cognitive disengagement syndrome, an attention disorder that is increasingly thought to be distinct from ADHD