MPD
The abbreviation MPD stands for:
- Magnetoplasmic dynamic propulsion , a propulsion mechanism for space vehicles
- Music Player Daemon , a music player
- M yelo p roliferative D isease , former acronym for a group of chronic diseases of the blood-forming cells of the bone marrow (often: CMPD for chronic myeloproliferative diseases )
- Movimiento Popular Democrático , Communist Party in Ecuador
- Movimento para a Democracia (Cape Verde) , bourgeois democratic party in Cape Verde
- Managed Pressure Drilling , a process used by the oil drilling industry to optimize the pressure at the end of the well
- 2-methyl-2,4-pentanediol , a popular precipitant used for the crystallization of biological macromolecules
- Multiple Product Dispenser , dispenser with several types (qualities)
- Multithreaded, Parallel, and Distributed ; see MPD (programming language)
- Multi-link PPP daemon for FreeBSD based on netgraph
- Microprocessor pulse decoding in radio technology
- Mobile prefix discovery in network technology
- Media Presentation Description a manifest file in network informatics