# PDM

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**PDM** may stand for:

## Computing

- [.pdm (disambiguation)](/source/.pdm_(disambiguation)), several file formats
- [Personal data manager](/source/Personal_data_manager) - portable hardware tool enabling secure storage and easy access to user data
- [Phase dispersion minimization](/source/Phase_dispersion_minimization), a data analysis technique for finding periodic components in time series data
- [Physical data model](/source/Physical_data_model), a representation of a data design as implemented, or intended to be implemented, in a database management system
- [Point distribution model](/source/Point_distribution_model), deformable contour model (used in Computer Vision)
- [Programming Development Manager](/source/Programming_Development_Manager)
- [Protocol-dependent module](/source/Protocol-dependent_module), decision making about routing table entries
- [Pulse-density modulation](/source/Pulse-density_modulation), a form of modulation used in analog to digital conversions
- [Product Data Management](/source/Product_Data_Management), Product data management (PDM) or Product information management (PIM) is the business function often within product lifecycle management (PLM)

## Politics

- [Pichda Dalit Muslmaan](/source/Bichda_Dalit_Muslim) is a political alliance in [Uttar Pradesh](/source/Uttar_Pradesh) state of [India](/source/India)
- [Democratic Party of Moldova](/source/Democratic_Party_of_Moldova), a political party of Moldova
- [Modern Democratic Party](/source/Modern_Democratic_Party), a political party of Moldova
- [Mexican Democratic Party](/source/Mexican_Democratic_Party) a former political party in Mexico
- [Pakistan Democratic Movement](/source/Pakistan_Democratic_Movement), a former anti-establishment coalition of political parties in Pakistan
- [Party-directed mediation](/source/Party-directed_mediation), a mediation approach that relies heavily on pre-caucus and joint sessions
- [People's Democratic Movement](/source/People's_Democratic_Movement), a political party of Papua New Guinea
- [People's Democratic Movement (Dominica)](/source/People's_Democratic_Movement_(Dominica)), a political party of Dominica
- [People's Democratic Movement (Montserrat)](/source/People's_Democratic_Movement_(Montserrat)), a political party of Montserrat
- [People's Democratic Movement (Turks and Caicos Islands)](/source/People's_Democratic_Movement_(Turks_and_Caicos_Islands)), a political party of the Turks and Caicos Islands
- [Popular Democratic Movement](/source/Popular_Democratic_Movement), Namibian political party
- [Progress and Modern Democracy](/source/Progress_and_Modern_Democracy), French centrist political group
- [Southern Democratic Party](/source/Southern_Democratic_Party) a former political party in Calabria, Italy

## Others

- [École Polyvalente Deux-Montagnes](/source/%C3%89cole_Polyvalente_Deux-Montagnes), a high school in Deux-Montagnes, Quebec, Canada
- Partial-propensity direct method, a [stochastic simulation](/source/Stochastic_simulation) algorithm for chemical reaction networks
- [PDM (cycling team)](/source/PDM_(cycling_team)), the cycling team sponsored by Philips Dupont Magnetics
- [PDM Group of Institutions](/source/PDM_Group_of_Institutions) (popularly known as PDM) is a Group of Educational Institutions located in India
- Penny-drop moment, an abbreviation used by [cryptic crossword](/source/Cryptic_crossword) bloggers
- [Philips Dupont Magnetics](/source/Philips_Dupont_Magnetics), a joint venture between Philips and DuPont
- [Ponta da Madeira](/source/Ponta_da_Madeira), an enormous deep-water port in northern Brazil
- [Polarization-division multiplexing](/source/Polarization-division_multiplexing)
- Post-detonation material such as [trinitite](/source/Trinitite) formed following nuclear weapon detonations
- *[Prague Daily Monitor](/source/Prague_Daily_Monitor)*, a newspaper published in the Czech Republic
- Preachers of Divine Mercy, a [Syro-Malabar Catholic religious congregation](/source/Syro-Malabar_Catholic_religious_congregations)
- [Precedence Diagram Method](/source/Precedence_Diagram_Method), a project scheduling technique
- [Predictive maintenance](/source/Predictive_maintenance), a method for planning equipment maintenance based on their condition
- [Public Domain Mark](/source/Public_Domain_Mark), a way of distinguishing works that are free of known copyright
- [Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual](/source/Psychodynamic_Diagnostic_Manual), a psychoanalytically-oriented manual for use by mental health professionals
- [PDM-A](/source/RPO-A_Shmel), modernized version of the RPO-A reactive flamethrower
- [M86 pursuit deterrent munition](/source/M86_pursuit_deterrent_munition), a type of anti-personnel mine produced in US
- [Personal diabetes manager](/source/Insulin_pump) a machine used for giving insulin to diabetics
- [Parfums de Marly](/source/Parfums_de_Marly), a French niche perfume house.
- [Pittsburgh-Des Moines Steel Company](/source/Pittsburgh-Des_Moines_Steel_Company), a defunct [United States](/source/United_States) steel fabrication company

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