ESD may mean:
- Education for Sustainable Development, a vision of education as depicted by the United Nations
- Educational service district (disambiguation), various state-level legislative groupings for schools in some US states.
- Electronic services delivery, government services provided through the Internet or other electronic means
- Electronic software delivery, Distribution of software by digital transfer rather than by physical media.
- Electrostatic discharge, a sudden and momentary electric current that flows between two objects
- Electrostatic dissipative, static dissipative material that will allow the transfer of charge to ground or other conductive object
- Electrostatic sensitive device, any component (primarily electrical) which can be damaged by common static charges
- Emergency shut down, a valve that stops flow in an emergency
- End-systolic dimension, the diameter across a ventricle in the heart
- Endoscopic submucosal dissection, a medical therapy with endoscopy
- Energy spectral density, a part of a function in statistical signal processing
- Engineering Society of Detroit, a multi-disciplinary association in south-east Michigan
- Enlightened Sound Daemon, is the sound server for Enlightenment and GNOME.
- Environmental secondary detector, a gaseous detection device used with environmental scanning electron microscopes
- Extreme subdwarf, a star with lower luminosity than that of a main-sequence star of the same spectral type
- The IATA airport code for Orcas Island Airport
Advertising Terminology:
- English Speaking Developed Nations - Often used in the context of ad campaign targeting for USA, CA, UK, IE, AU, and NZ