| Acronym | Definition |
|---|
| PDS | Planetary Data System (NASA) |
| PDS | Product Disclosure Statement |
| PDS | Product Data Sheet |
| PDS | Public Distribution System (India) |
| PDS | Professional Development School |
| PDS | Professional Development System |
| PDS | Partei des Demokratischen Sozialismus (German: Party of Democratic Socialism) |
| PDS | IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems |
| PDS | Partitioned Data Set |
| PDS | Performance Database Server |
| PDS | Public Domain Software |
| PDS | Product Development System (PTC) |
| PDS | Princeton Day School (Princeton, NJ) |
| PDS | Parkinson's Disease Society (UK) |
| PDS | Permanent Duty Station |
| PDS | Plant Design System (Intergraph) |
| PDS | Professional Development Seminar |
| PDS | Processor Direct Slot |
| PDS | Power Distribution System |
| PDS | Senegalese Democratic Party (Senegal) |
| PDS | Personnel Data System |
| PDS | Providence Day School (Charlotte, NC) |
| PDS | Pendred Syndrome |
| PDS | Professional Development Scheme (UK) |
| PDS | Premises Distribution System |
| PDS | Partido Democrático Social (Portuguese: Social Democratic Party; Brazil) |
| PDS | Private Debt Securities |
| PDS | Personal Data Sheet |
| PDS | Pallet Design System |
| PDS | Photothermal Deflection Spectroscopy |
| PDS | Pigment Dispersion Syndrome (eye disorder) |
| PDS | Please Don't Shout |
| PDS | Post Design Services |
| PDS | Protected Distribution System |
| PDS | Packet Driver Specification |
| PDS | Persistent Developmental Stuttering |
| PDS | Philippine Dermatological Society |
| PDS | Procesamiento Digital de Señales |
| PDS | Production Data Set |
| PDS | Partito dei Democratici di Sinistra (Italian: Left Democratic Party) |
| PDS | Planning and Development Secretariat |
| PDS | Public Disclosure System |
| PDS | Photoduplication Service (Library of Congress) |
| PDS | Proactive Disclosure Service |
| PDS | Passive Detection System |
| PDS | Performance Development System |
| PDS | Previously Developed Software |
| PDS | Physical Delivery System |
| PDS | Project Drafting Specification |
| PDS | Paroxysmal Depolarization Shift |
| PDS | Personnel Data Sheet |
| PDS | Personnel Decontamination Station |
| PDS | Phase-Diverse Speckle (image restoration algorithms) |
| PDS | Problem Descriptor System |
| PDS | Paintball Detection System |
| PDS | Print and Document Services (OfficeMax) |
| PDS | Pre Delivery Service |
| PDS | Paid During Service |
| PDS | Protective Distribution System |
| PDS | Pittsburgh Diffraction Society |
| PDS | Programa de Desarrollo Sostenible (Guatemala) |
| PDS | Precision Drill Squad |
| PDS | Physical Delivery Service |
| PDS | position determining system (US DoD) |
| PDS | primary distribution site (US DoD) |
| PDS | Post Deployment Support |
| PDS | Program Data Source |
| PDS | Power Demand Signal |
| PDS | Provincial Development Strategy (Iraq) |
| PDS | Pacific Datacom Systems, Inc. |
| PDS | Program Design Specification |
| PDS | Process Data Sheet |
| PDS | Personnel Daily Summary |
| PDS | Professional Development Suite |
| PDS | Perimeter Defense System (gaming, RA2) |
| PDS | Polidioxanone |
| PDS | Project Development Service |
| PDS | Project Design Standards |
| PDS | Peabody Demonstration School (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| PDS | Project Design Specifications |
| PDS | Post Delivery Support |
| PDS | Processing & Display System |
| PDS | Program Distribution System |
| PDS | Primary Data Server |
| PDS | Prevent Significant Deterioration (terminology relating to air quality) |
| PDS | Product Development Section |
| PDS | Practice Dangerous to Security |
| PDS | Democratic Senegalese Party (Senegal) |
| PDS | Pålitelighet og tilgjengelighet av Datamaskinbaserte Sikringssystemer (Norwegian: Reliability and Availability of Computerized Safety Systems) |
| PDS | Product Design Standards |
| PDS | Photodischarge Spectroscopy |
| PDS | Pulse Doppler Search |
| PDS | Personnel Demonstration Project |
| PDS | Personal Decision Series |
| PDS | Provider Development and Support |
| PDS | Pacific Development Services (Tuscon, AZ) |
| PDS | Product Development Schedule |
| PDS | Peyronie's Disease Society |
| PDS | Pink Death Syndicate (gaming clan) |
| PDS | Phase Dithering Sequence |
| PDS | Platform Delivery System |
| PDS | Program Data Sheet |
| PDS | Personnel Development Seminar |
| PDS | Power Distribution Switchboard |
| PDS | Primary Development Service/Agency |
| PDS | Private Distribution System |
| PDS | Primary Data Stager (mainframes) |
| PDS | Personal Deployment System (web design & administration) |
| PDS | Project Development Submittal |
| PDS | Partial Donor Scale |
| PDS | Procurement Documentation Set |
| PDS | Program Decision Summary |
| PDS | Plan/Program Development System |
| PDS | Proportional Differential Services |
| PDS | Pretty Damned Sexy |
| PDS | Planning Design Sketch |
| PDS | Platform Deck Switch |