Science and Technology
- University of Colombo, Centre for Instrument Development, in Sri Lanka
- Caller ID, a telephone service that transmits the caller's telephone number to the called party
- Card Identification Number, a security feature on credit cards
- Cell ID, used to identify cell phone towers
- Channel-iron deposits, one of the major sources of saleable iron ore
- Compound identification number, a field in the PubChem database
- Clinical Infectious Diseases, a medical journal
- Certified Interconnect Designer, a certification for printed circuit-board designers
- CID fonts, a font file format
- Collision-induced dissociation, a mass spectrometry mechanism
- Combat Identification, accurate characterization of detected objects for military action
- Configuration interaction doubles, a variational quantum-chemical method for calculating partly correlated ground states
- Content-ID, a URI scheme (cid:) that allows the use of MIME within email
- Controlled Impact Demonstration, a project to improve aircraft crash survivability
- Cubic inch displacement, a measurement in internal combustion engines
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