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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)
Music
- Lil Dicky, American rapper
- Little Doses, a Scottish alternative rock band
- Luis Dubuc (born 1985), American musician
Businesses and organizations
- Air Hong Kong (IATA code LD)
- Light Dragoons, a British Army cavalry regiment
- Linea Turistica Aerotuy (IATA code LD)
- Louis-Dreyfus Group, a French commodities trading firm
Economics and finance
Contract law
- Liability Damage
- Liquidated Damages
Currencies
- Liberian dollar, the currency of Liberia
- Libyan dinar, the currency of Libya
- Liberty dollar (private currency), produced in the US
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, 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
- 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
- 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 uses in science, technology, and mathematics
- Ladder diagram (disambiguation), with various meanings
- 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
- 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
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