BFD
Encyclopedia
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 DepartmentBakersfield Fire DepartmentThe Bakersfield Fire Department is a metro fire protection agency that serves the City of Bakersfield, California. The department currently serves a population of approximately 334,000, making the City of Bakersfield the 9th largest in California....
, Bakersfield, CaliforniaBakersfield, CaliforniaBakersfield is a city near the southern end of the San Joaquin Valley in Kern County, California. It is roughly equidistant between Fresno and Los Angeles, to the north and south respectively.... - Boston Fire DepartmentBoston Fire DepartmentThe Boston Fire Department provides fire protection services for Boston, Massachusetts, USA. In addition to fire protection, the Boston Fire department also provides basic emergency medical services and respond to a variety of emergencies such as, but not limited to, motor vehicle accidents,...
, Boston, Massachusetts - Buffalo Fire DepartmentBuffalo Fire DepartmentThe Buffalo Fire Department is the principal fire and rescue service for the city of Buffalo, New York. It is the largest fire department in Upstate New York. The Fire Department currently consists of one division which is separated into four battalions, and further separated into 4 platoons...
, Buffalo, New YorkBuffalo, New YorkBuffalo is the second most populous city in the state of New York, after New York City. Located in Western New York on the eastern shores of Lake Erie and at the head of the Niagara River across from Fort Erie, Ontario, Buffalo is the seat of Erie County and the principal city of the...
Computing
- Bidirectional Forwarding DetectionBidirectional Forwarding DetectionBidirectional Forwarding Detection is a network protocol used to detect faults between two forwarding engines connected by a link. It provides low-overhead detection of faults even on physical media that don't support failure detection of any kind, such as Ethernet, virtual circuits, tunnels and...
, 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 languageBinary Format Description languageThe Binary Format Description language is an extension of XSIL which has added conditionals and the ability to reference files by their stream numbers, rather than by their public URLs. A template written in the BFD language can be applied to a binary data file to produce a file with that data...
- a virtual music instrument meant to simulate a drumset, released by FXpansionFXpansionFXpansion is a Ltd company that produces music software including DCAM: Synth Squad, BFD, GURU and the VST-RTAS and VST-AudioUnit Adapters.- History :...
Media
- BFD Records, one producer of the Pebbles (series) of records
- Benelux Film DistributorsBenelux Film DistributorsBenelux Film Distributors is a joint venture of various independent film distributors and markets a wide range of films in Cinemas in the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg....
- BFD or Big Fucking Day, an annual alternative music festival hosted by the radio station Live 105
Places
- Bakersfield (Amtrak station)Bakersfield (Amtrak station)The Bakersfield Amtrak Station is a train station in Bakersfield, California. It is the southern terminus of Amtrak's San Joaquin route operated by Amtrak California, with Thruway Motorcoach service continuing to Amtrak stations and bus stops throughout Southern California and Nevada...
, California, (AmtrakAmtrakThe National Railroad Passenger Corporation, doing business as Amtrak , is a government-owned corporation that was organized on May 1, 1971, to provide intercity passenger train service in the United States. "Amtrak" is a portmanteau of the words "America" and "track". It is headquartered at Union...
station code) - Bradford Regional AirportBradford Regional AirportBradford Regional Airport is a public airport located in Lewis Run, 10 miles south of the central business district of Bradford, a city in McKean County, Pennsylvania, United States. The airport serves Pennsylvania and Western New York...
in Bradford, PennsylvaniaBradford, PennsylvaniaBradford is a small city located in rural McKean County, Pennsylvania, in the United States 78 miles south of Buffalo, New York. Settled in 1823, Bradford was chartered as a city in 1879 and emerged as a wild oil boomtown in the Pennsylvanian oil rush in the late 19th century...
(IATA airport code)
Other
- Back focal direction in optics
- Boiler feedwater pumpBoiler feedwater pumpA boiler feedwater pump is a specific type of pump used to pump feedwater into a steam boiler. The water may be freshly supplied or returning condensate produced as a result of the condensation of the steam produced by the boiler...
- Budgerigar fledgling diseasePolyomavirusPolyomavirus is the sole genus of viruses within the family Polyomaviridæ. Murine polyomavirus was the first polyomavirus discovered by Ludwik Gross in 1953. Subsequently, many polyomaviruses have been found to infect birds and mammals...
(polyomavirus), a virus frequently fatal to caged birds