MD
MD (or MD. , M.D. , md, .md, md. ) stands for:
- Majority Decision, judgement in boxing (majority decision)
- Meteorological Service of the German Democratic Republic (until 1990), see weather service
- Mixed area Village area in land use and development plans
- Mediterranean Dialogue
- Middle German, see Middle German language (abbreviation md. )
- Ministry of Defence of East Timor
City and country codes:
- Magdeburg, designation on small watercraft in the area of the Waterways and Shipping Authority Magdeburg
- Maryland, US state, postal abbreviation
- Republic of Moldova by ISO country code
- Top-level domain (Internet) of the Republic of Moldova, see .md
- Dominican Republic by ICAO code
- License plate
- Germany: independent city of Magdeburg
- Great Britain: Manchester
- Netherlands: Motorcycles
- Austria: District of Mödling
- Turkey: Foreigners with residence permit
Professional and Official Titles:
- Managing Director
- marketing director
- Medical Doctor (English) for the professional title "physician" (abbreviation "MD" or "M.D."), see Doctor of Medicine#United States of America.
- Medicinæ Doctor (engl.), also title designation for doctor of medicine (abbreviation M.D./MD as above), but research doctorate (requires scientific doctoral thesis similar to the German Doktorarbeit), mainly United Kingdom
- Medizinaldirektor, rank for civil servant physicians, for example in the police, see Official titles of the German police#Polizeiärztlicher Dienst
- Ministerialdirektor, title of a civil servant
- Intermediate civil service, career in the civil service
- Museum education service
- Music director, title of a civil servant musician; usually the responsible arranger, leader and/or beat-setter of a band.
Science, mathematics, technology:
- MD, Roman numeral 1500 (M=1000 + D=500), see Roman numerals
- Machine Direction, running direction or preferred direction, for example of film or paper
- File name extension of Markdown files (.md)
- mean absolute deviation from the arithmetic mean
- Membrane distillation
- Mendelevium, chemical element
- Message Digest, group of cryptographic protocols as application of a hash function for texts, among others MD5
- Mic Dubbed, overwriting of a digital sound recording via microphone (opposite of Line Dubbed)
- Microdrive (hard disk), memory card for card reader
- Mini-DIN, family of connectors
- MiniDisc, digital, opto-magnetic storage medium, mainly used for storing music
- Mini-Disk, digital, mechanical storage medium (historical)
- Molecular dynamics, numerical method, e.g. for computer simulation of fluids
- Multiple Devices, Linux device drivers for RAID arrays
Medicine:
- Major depression, technical term for severe clinical depression
- Medical documentation or medical documentalist
- Dupuytren's disease, disease of the palm of the hand
Company and products: