I get an email asking what MTD stands for!

[digger]

I tell the guy, IMHO it stands for poor quality and lack of pride!OR (Maximum Tolerable Downtime)
I don't think he was amused!
BUT, there is a real name.

Modern Tool and Die Company

Then there's the rest, LOL

MTD Maximum Tolerated Dose
MTD Methadone (drug screening)
MTD Modern Tire Dealer (magazine)
MTD Month To-Date
MTD motion to dismiss (legal)
MtD Mountain Dew
MTD Memory Technology Device
MTD Memory Technology Driver
MTD Maximum Tolerable Downtime (business security)
MTD Micro Triangle Displacement (finalRender)
MTD Mixture Transition Distribution
MTD Mean Texture Depth
MTD Moving Target Detector
MTD Minton Treharne & Davies (chemicals company, Cardiff, Wales, UK)
MTD Memory-Enhanced Test Driver
MTD Maneuvering Technology Demonstrator
MTD Maintenance Training Device
MTD Milford Transit District (Connecticut, USA)
MTD Marine Technology Directorate Ltd. (United Kingdom)
MTD Moscow Time Daylight (GMT+0400)
MTD Missile Technology Demonstration
MTD Makaveli The Don (Tupac Shakur)
MTD Maximum Theoretical Density
MTD Maintenance Task Distribution
MTD Minimal Toxic Dose
MTD Minimum Tolerated Dose
MTD Maximum Transmission Distance
MTD Metric Tonnes Per Day
MTD Materiel Test Directorate
MTD Manufacturing Technology Development
MTD motion to dissolve (legal)
MTD Mate-Through-Delivery
MTD Media Technology Drivers
MTD Manufacturing Technology Division
MTD Mortgage Term Date
MTD Main Threat Direction
MTD Multi Tile Display
MTD Maintenance Task Demand
MTD Malignant Teratoma Differentiated (cancer)
MTD Maintenance Training Department
MTD Multiple Target Discrimination
MTD Minutes to Date (measuring telecom interconnect traffic and quality)
MTD Mean Therapeutic Dose
MTD Maintenance Technology Development

 

[jdiederichs]

Minimum Time (in) Design/Development=MTD

 

[bpenn]

I didn't see Mechanically Transmitted Disease in the list. That's my favorite slur.

 

[kide]

Not sure what it was associated with, but I heard it was "More Trash Daily"....

 

[mfrade]

I didn't see More Time Delays.