MPD

MPD may refer to:

U.S. police

 * Memphis Police Department, Memphis, Tennessee
 * Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia, Washington, District of Columbia
 * Miami Police Department, Miami, Florida
 * Milwaukee Police Department, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
 * Minneapolis Police Department, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Other police

 * Manila Police District, Manila, the Philippines
 * Metropolitan Police District, the area policed by the Metropolitan Police Service in London, United Kingdom
 * Montreal Police Department, Montreal, Canada
 * Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, Tokyo, Japan

Politics

 * Movement for Democracy (Cape Verde), a political party in Cape Verde
 * Movimiento Popular Democrático, a political party in Ecuador

Science

 * Magnetoplasmadynamic thruster, an electric space propulsion engine
 * Mesoscale precipitation discussion, a short-term meteorological forecast issued by the Weather Prediction Center concerning heavy precipitation and flash flooding
 * Multivariate Pólya distribution, a statistical distribution
 * Mouse Phenome Database, an online database of laboratory mouse characterizations

Chemistry

 * 2-Methyl-2,4-pentanediol
 * m-Phenylenediamine
 * Methylphenidate

Medicine

 * Multiple personality disorder, a no longer accurate diagnosis for the mental disorder: dissociative identity disorder and other specified dissociative disorder
 * Myeloproliferative disease, a group of diseases of the bone marrow
 * Maximum permissible dose, of radiation

Software

 * MPD (programming language), a concurrent programming language
 * Music Player Daemon, a music-player server
 * Media Presentation Description, segment information in the streaming technique Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH)

Other uses

 * Managed Pressure Drilling, an adaptive oil drilling process
 * Markovian Parallax Denigrate, a 1996 internet mystery.
 * Memory Protection Devices, a company that manufactures battery holders
 * Moonee Ponds railway station, Melbourne
 * UTA MPD, a type of diesel multiple unit railcar of Northern Ireland Railways
 * Air Comet, by ICAO airline designator
 * Motive power depot, a location used to store locomotives
 * A range of MIDI pad controllers made by Akai
 * Metres above principal datum (mPD), a surveying term; see sea level