SDL

SDL may refer to:

In computing:

• Simple Declarative Language, a simple universal language for describing typed data in lists, maps and trees
• Specification and Description Language, an ITU-specified system description language
• Scene Description Language, the language used by POV-Ray
• Security Development Lifecycle
• Simple DirectMedia Layer, a cross-platform, free and open source multimedia library
• Services Description Language, an specification language developed at Microsoft as a successor of CORBA's IDL; it was a fore-runner to WSDL
• Structure Definition Language, a data definition language for OpenVMS

Organizations:

• Scottish Defence League, a far-right anti-muslim street protest organisation in Scotland
• Strana demokratickej ľavice, a former political party of Slovakia, re-found in 2005
• Soqosoqo Duavata ni Lewenivanua, a political party in Fiji
• Space Dynamics Laboratory, at Utah State University
• SDL Plc, a British company selling translation tools and services

Other uses:

• Schematic driven layout, a concept in the design of integrated circuits
• SDL Tridion, a web content management system
• Shielded Data Link connector, an electrical signal connector
• Sundsvall-Härnösand Airport, IATA airport code
• Service dominant logic (marketing), A marketing logic in business stating the need for migration from goods marketing to services marketing.