Word.ws English Dictionary

OPD

OPD is the initialism of Oakland Police Department.

OPD is the initialism of offender personality disorder.

OPD is the initialism of overcurrent protective device.

Meaning of overcurrent protective device

Noun

overcurrent protective device (plural overcurrent protective devices)

  1. A device, usually a fuse, polyfuse, or circuit breaker, intended to detect and stop an overcurrent condition.
    • A ring final circuit starts and finishes at the distribution board, where it is connected to a 30A or 32A overcurrent protective device.2008, Darrell Locke, Guide to the Wiring Regulations: 17th Edition IEE Wiring Regulations (BS 7671:2008), archived from the original on 18 Jul 2022, page 88

Questions about OPD

What is OPD the initialism of?
OPD is the initialism of Oakland Police Department.

Words near OPD in the dictionary

  1. opcode
  2. opcodes
  3. OPCON
  4. OPCONs
  5. OPCW
  6. OPD
  7. Opdahl
  8. Opdahls
  9. opdalite
  10. opdalites
  11. ope

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: OPD (page history and authors); overcurrent protective device (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “OPD.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/opd. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.