LSD (disambiguation)
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LSD is the abbreviation for the hallucinogenic drug lysergic acid diethylamide.
LSD may also mean:
In science and technology:
- Line Sharing Device, also known as a Modem Sharing Device, a device allowing multiple inputs to a serial connection
- Longshore drift, a process by which sediments move along the shore's beach
- Light-Sensitive Diode (Photodiode), a diode that releases its charge when it detects light
- Linear Slot Diffuser in HVAC engineering
- Least Significant Digit
- Layered Specification Document, a hierarchical set of engineering specifications that collectively describe a system from top down.
- Laser Servo Diskette
- Laser Servo Drive
In popular culture:
- LSD is a video game released in Japan in 1998.
- Love Sensuality Devotion: The Greatest Hits and Love Sensuality Devotion: The Remix Collection, a set of compilation albums from Enigma
- Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, a Beatles song
- League for Spiritual Discovery, a religious cult centered around LSD founded by Timothy Leary
- Liquid Sound Design, a UK electronic music record label
- "L.S.D.", a song by Hawkwind from their 1993 album Electric Tepee
- Life, Sex & Death, a rock band
In politics:
- £sd or "LSD", for Librae, Solidi, Denarii (pounds, shillings, pence), the popular name for the pre-decimal currencies of the UK and other countries
- League of Social Democrats, a Hong Kong pro-democratic political group
In transportation:
- Lake Shore Drive, a famous road in Chicago
- Dock Landing Ship (US Navy hull classification: LSD), amphibious assault ships
- Low Sulfur Diesel, a predecessor to Ultra-low sulfur diesel (ULSD), a fuel standard
- Limited slip differential, a type of differential in automobile engineering
- LSD Motor Car, a 3 wheeler car made in Huddersfield and Linthwaite between 1919 and 1924 by Messrs Longbottom, Sykes and Dyson. An example is in the Tolson Museum, Huddersfield.
In sports:
- Little Spike Dudley (Matt Hyson), a professional wrestler
- Long Slow Distance, a training method used by long distance runners who eschew fast, short runs in favor of slower but longer runs
In education:
- Louisiana School for the Deaf, a Baton Rouge school for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
[edit] See also
- LDS (an acronym used among Latter-day Saints / Mormons)