# 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