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'''LD''' may refer to:
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==Arts and entertainment==

*[[Lighting designer]], a person in charge of lighting in theatre

=== 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
*[[LaserDisc]] or MCA Discovision is a 12 inch Analog Video optical disc
===Music===
*[[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==
*[[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===
* Liability damages
* [[Liquidated damages]]

===Currencies===
*[[Liberian dollar]], the currency of Liberia
*[[Libyan dinar]], the currency of Libya
*[[Liberty dollar (private currency)]], produced in the US

=== Products ===

*[[LD (cigarette)]], a brand of cigarette

==Places==
*[[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==
*[[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===
*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===
*[[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===
*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 [[Copyright infringement|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 [[CP/LD|Content Profile/Linked Document]], a data serialisation format
*[[Listening device]], used in covert investigations

===Telecommunications===
*[[Long-distance calling]], a telephone call charged at a higher rate
*[[Pulse dialing|Loop Disconnect]] dialing

===Other===
*''(chemistry)'' [[Dextrorotation and levorotation|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]], <math>\mathrm{ld}(x)=\log_2(x)</math>, from the Latin ''logarithmus dualis''
*''(military)'' [[Laser designator]], used by the military for targeting
*''(physics)'' [[London dispersion force]], weak intermolecular forces

==Other uses==
*''(communications)'' [[Lincoln–Douglas debate format]]
*''(sociology)'' [[Long-distance relationship]]
*''(sports)'' [[Line drive]], in baseball
*''(sports)'' [[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)
*[[Ladder diagram (disambiguation)]], various meanings

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