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LD may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
[edit]- Lighting designer, a person in charge of lighting in theatre
Film and television
[edit]- Lorraine "L.D." Delacorte, a character on the TV series Degrassi
- Larry David, sometimes referred to as L.D. on the television show Curb Your Enthusiasm
- Latin Disciples, a fictional gang in television series Day Break
- Living Dangerously, an Extreme Champion Wrestling pay-per-view event (ECW PPV)
- Low-definition television (LDTV)
- "-LD", a United States call sign suffix signifying a low-power digital television station
- LaserDisc or MCA Discovision is a 12 inch Analog Video optical disc
Music
[edit]- Lil Dicky (born 1988), American rapper
- Little Doses, a Scottish alternative rock band
- Luis Dubuc (born 1985), American musician
- LD (rapper), British rapper
- Lemon Demon, American musical project and band
Businesses and organizations
[edit]- Air Hong Kong (IATA code LD)
- Light Dragoons, a British Army cavalry regiment
- Línea Turística Aereotuy (IATA code LD)
- Louis Dreyfus Company, a French commodities trading firm
Economics and finance
[edit]Contract law
[edit]- Liability damages
- Liquidated damages
Currencies
[edit]- Liberian dollar, the currency of Liberia
- Libyan dinar, the currency of Libya
- Liberty dollar (private currency), produced in the US
Products
[edit]- LD (cigarette), a brand of cigarette
Places
[edit]- LD postcode area, also known as the Llandrindod Wells postcode area, in Wales
- Lakshadweep, India (ISO 3166-2 code LD)
- County Longford, Ireland (code LD)
Politics
[edit]- Liberal democracy, a form of government based on rule of the people (democracy) tempered by the rule of law and natural rights (liberalism)
- Lincoln–Douglas debate, a form of debate
- Liberal Democrats (UK), a UK political party
- Lord, a peer of the realm in the United Kingdom
Science, technology, and mathematics
[edit]Astronomy
[edit]- Lilian day, a variant of the Julian day
- Lunar distance (astronomy), the distance between the Earth and the Moon, used a general measure of distance
Biology and medicine
[edit]- Lactate dehydrogenase, an enzyme in plants and animals
- Lateral dorsal nucleus of thalamus, an anatomic structure of the brain
- Learning disability, a condition that can impair learning through standard methods
- Lethal dose, an indication of the lethal toxicity of a given substance or type of radiation
- Licensed Dietitian
- Linkage disequilibrium, in genetics, when alleles occur together more often than they would by chance
- Lucid dreaming, a dream in which one is conscious of dreaming as it is happening
Electronics and computing
[edit]- ld, an instruction on a Z80 CPU
- ld (Unix), the linker command on Unix and Unix-like systems
- Laser diode, semiconductor laser-emitting device
- LaserDisc, an obsolete optical disc video/data format and predecessor to DVD
- Levenshtein distance, a string metric for measuring the difference between two sequences.
- Line Dubbed, a term for unlicensed copies of films with an audio track, which has been ripped from the line out connection of a projector
- Linked data, a method of publishing structured data so that it can be interlinked and become more useful
- The 'Linked Document' in the NISO standard Content Profile/Linked Document, a data serialisation format
- Listening device, used in covert investigations
Telecommunications
[edit]- Long-distance calling, a telephone call charged at a higher rate
- Loop Disconnect dialing
Other
[edit]- (chemistry) D/L nomenclature, used in naming chemical compounds
- (linguistics) Language Development, the changes that take place in language, speech & communication in the context of children's development
- (manufacturing) Linz-Donawitz process, a widely-used process in Basic oxygen steelmaking
- (mathematics) Binary logarithm, , from the Latin logarithmus dualis
- (military) Laser designator, used by the military for targeting
- (physics) London dispersion force, weak intermolecular forces
Other uses
[edit]- (communications) Lincoln–Douglas debate format
- (sociology) Long-distance relationship
- (sports) Line drive, in baseball
- (sports) Ludum Dare, a game development competition
See also
[edit]- eLDee, Nigerian rapper and record producer
- 1D (disambiguation), similar in glyphic structure to "lD"/"ld"(1d)
- ID (disambiguation), similar in glyphic structure to "lD"/"ld"(Id)
- Ladder diagram (disambiguation), various meanings