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

See also

• Clinical decision support (CDSS), software to assist clinical diagnostic and therapeutic decision-making
• All pages with titles beginning with CDS
• All pages with titles containing CDS
• CD (disambiguation), for the singular of CDS