Science and Technology
- Capacitive deionization, a water desalination technology based on the use of electrical field effects
- Carbonyldiimidazole, a peptide coupling agent
- CD-i or Compact Disc Interactive, an interactive multimedia CD player and format developed and marketed by Royal Philips Electronics, N.V.
- .cdi filename extension, for DiscJuggler disk images, developed by Padus, Inc.
- Coherent diffraction imaging, a lensless nanoscale imaging technique
- Collector diffusion isolation, a technique used in semiconductor device fabrication
- Contexts and Dependency Injection, a technique used in Java for setting fields in a container managed application, according to the inversion of control design pattern
- Color discrimination index, a measure relevant for appraisal of color rendering
- Conditioned diphase, a method of digital baseband transmission
- Conductivity depth image, a fast conducivity transform method used in geophysics
- Consumer device integration, a term that describes the integration of mobile devices into car infotainment systems
- Customer Data Integration, a data processing domain relating to the accurate and consistent representation of customer data across enterprise systems
- Cyrel Digital Imager, a direct laser engraving flexography plate printing device
- Aviation
- Compass directional indicator, a type of heading indicator flight instrument
- Course Deviation Indicator, an avionics instrument used in aircraft navigation
- Engines
- Capacitor discharge ignition or thyristor ignition, a type of electronic ignition system
- Common direct injection, a synonym of common rail; a type of fuel injection
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