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LD may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Film and television

  • 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

Music

  • Lil Dicky, American rapper
  • Little Doses, a Scottish alternative rock band
  • Luis Dubuc (born 1985), American musician
  • LD, British rapper a part of the London gang 67 (rap group)

Businesses and organizations

  • 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

Contract law

Currencies

Places

Politics

  • 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

Astronomy

Biology and medicine

  • Lactate dehydrogenase, an enzyme in plants and animals
  • Lateral dorsal nucleus of thalamus, an anatomic structure of the brain
  • Lethal dose#, where "#" represents the percentage of test organisms killed by a specific dosage
  • Licensed Dietician
  • Linkage disequilibrium, in genetics, when alleles occur together more often than they would by chance

Electronics and computing

  • 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

Telecommunications

  • Long-distance calling, a telephone call charged at a higher rate
  • Loop Disconnect dialing

Other

  • Ladder diagram (disambiguation), with various meanings
  • D/L nomenclature, used in naming chemical compounds
  • Linz-Donawitz process, a widely used conversion process in steelmaking
  • Listening device, used in covert investigations
  • Binary logarithm, , from the Latin logarithmus dualis
  • London dispersion forces, weak intermolecular forces

Other uses

  • LD (cigarette), a brand of cigarette
  • Learning disability, a condition that can impair learning through standard methods
  • Lighting designer, a person in charge of lighting in theatre
  • Lincoln–Douglas debate format
  • Line Drive, in baseball
  • Long-distance relationship
  • Lucid dreaming, a dream in which one is conscious of dreaming as it is happening
  • Ludum Dare a game development competition

See also

  • 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)
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