CTD

'CTD' is an abbreviation which may refer to the following things:

★ Central de Trabajadores Democráticos, a trade union centre in El Salvador

★ In Biochemistry the Carboxy-Terminal Domain, a part of RNA polymerase II

★ In Computer Science the Church-Turing-Deutsch principle relates to the universality of simulation.

★ In the Pharmaceutical industry a Common Technical Document is a drug approval document.

★ In Computer Storage in most unix systems, drives are designated by the ctd notation, e.g. controller 1, target 2, disk 3 would be c1t2d3.

★ In Geophysics and Oceanography a CTD is used to measure conductivity, temperature and depth of the water column.

★ In Computing, sometimes used as an abbreviation for "Crash to Desktop", when a program exits abnormally

★ In Medicine abbreviation for Connetive Tissue Diseases (i/e Lupus Erythematosus).

★ Also in medicine, it is informally used for a close-to-death and hopeless situation. CTD stands for Circling the Drain.

★ The Center for Talent Development

★ In Finance, where a physically settled derivative contract has multiple deliverables, the underlying which is most economically optimal to deliver is the cheapest to deliver (CTD). See derivative (finance).

★ Crash Test Dummies, a band

★ Clubbed to Death, a song by Rob Dougan

★ Chronic Transplant Disfunction, a disease of transplanted tissue

★ Contra - Terrene Device, from the books of Neal Asher, an euphemism for an Antimatter bomb