# PID

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**PID** or **Pid** may refer to:

## Medicine

- [Pelvic inflammatory disease](/source/Pelvic_inflammatory_disease) or pelvic inflammatory disorder, an infection of the upper part of the female reproductive system
- [Primary immune deficiency](/source/Primary_immune_deficiency), disorders in which part of the body's immune system is missing or does not function properly
- [Prolapsed intervertebral disc](/source/Prolapsed_intervertebral_disc), commonly called a herniated disc

## Science, technology and engineering

- [BBC Programme Identifier](/source/BBC_Programme_Identifier), a unique identifier for a BBC television or radio programme brand, a season or series, or an individual episode
- [OBD-II PIDs](/source/OBD-II_PIDs) (on-board diagnostics parameter IDs), requests for data through an OBD connector in automotive repair
- Packet Identifier, a field in a [MPEG transport stream](/source/MPEG_transport_stream#Packet_Identifier_(PID)) packet

- [Partial information decomposition](/source/Partial_information_decomposition), an extension of [information theory](/source/Information_theory)
- [Passive infrared detector](/source/Passive_infrared_detector), a passive infrared sensor
- Payload Interface Document (used on space engineering program for example)
- [Persistent identifier](/source/Persistent_identifier), a long-lasting reference to a document, file, web page, or other object
- Phosphotyrosine-interacting domain, also known as [phosphotyrosine-binding domain](/source/Phosphotyrosine-binding_domain), a protein domain which bind to phosphotyrosine
- [Photoionization detector](/source/Photoionization_detector), measures volatile organic compounds and other gases
- Physical Interface Device, a class of a [USB](/source/USB) device
- [PID controller](/source/PID_controller) (proportional-integral-derivative controller), a control concept used in automation
- [Piping and instrumentation diagram](/source/Piping_and_instrumentation_diagram) (P&ID), a diagram in the process industry which shows the piping of the process flow etc.
- [Principal ideal domain](/source/Principal_ideal_domain), an algebraic structure
- [Process identifier](/source/Process_identifier), a number used by many operating systems to identify a process

## Organisations

- [Police Intelligence Department](/source/Police_Intelligence_Department), a staff department of the Singapore Police Force
- [Political Intelligence Department (disambiguation)](/source/Political_Intelligence_Department_(disambiguation)), multiple organisations
- *[Politieke Inlichtingen Dienst](/source/Politieke_Inlichtingen_Dienst)* (Political Intelligence Department), was the main security agency for the Dutch East Indies
- [Prague Integrated Transport](/source/Prague_Integrated_Transport) (*Pražská integrovaná doprava* – PID in Czech), an integrated public transport system in Prague
- [Press Information Department](/source/Press_Information_Department), government department of Bangladesh

## Other uses

- *[Pathways into Darkness](/source/Pathways_into_Darkness)*, a 1993 video game by Bungie
- "[Paul is dead](/source/Paul_is_dead)", a 1960s urban legend that Paul McCartney was dead
- [*Pid* (video game)](/source/Pid_(video_game)), a 2012 video game by Might and Delight
- [Project Initiation Documentation](/source/Project_Initiation_Documentation), in project management
- [Party identification](/source/Party_identification), the political party with which an individual identifies
- Everett [Pid Purdy](/source/Pid_Purdy) (1904–1951), American athlete who played in both Major League Baseball and the National Football League
- [P.I.D.](/source/P.I.D.), Christian hip-hop group

## See also

- [PIDS (disambiguation)](/source/PIDS_(disambiguation))

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