BFD
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BFD may refer to:
Agencies
Most US fire departments use a three letter acronym ending in "FD", thus many cities beginning with the letter "B" will have the acronym BFD for their fire departments. Some prominent examples in larger cities would include:
- Bakersfield Fire Department in Bakersfield, California
- Boston Fire Department in Boston, Massachusetts
- Buffalo Fire Department in Buffalo, New York
Computing
- Bidirectional Forwarding Detection, a network protocol used to detect faults between devices
- Binary File Descriptor library, the GNU Project's main mechanism for the portable manipulation of object files in a variety of formats
- Binary Format Description language
- A virtual music instrument meant to simulate a drumset, released by FXpansion
Media
- BFD Records, one producer of the Pebbles (series) of records
- BFD Magazine, A local magazine distributed around Bradford, West Yorkshire
- Benelux Film Distributors
- BFD or Big Fucking Day, an annual alternative music festival hosted by the radio station Live 105
Places
- Bakersfield (Amtrak station), California, (Amtrak station code)
- Bradford Regional Airport in Bradford, Pennsylvania (IATA airport code)
Other
- Back focal direction in optics
- Boiler feedwater pump
- Budgerigar fledgling disease (polyomavirus), a virus frequently fatal to caged birds
- Big Fucking Deal