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LSD is the abbreviation for the hallucinogenic drug lysergic acid diethylamide, also known as "acid".
LSD or L.S.D. may also mean:
As the name of a place, person, or group
- Lake Shore Drive, a famous road in Chicago
- Louisiana School for the Deaf, a Baton Rouge school for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
- Matt Hyson or "Little Spike Dudley", a professional wrestler
- League of Social Democrats, a Hong Kong pro-democratic political group
- League for Spiritual Discovery, a religious cult founded by Timothy Leary and centered around LSD
In science and technology
Computing and technology
- laser servo disk(ette) and laser servo drive, components of the high-speed, high-capacity SuperDisk from 3M
- light-sensitive diode or Photodiode, a diode that releases its charge when it detects light
- line sharing device, also known as a modem sharing device, a device allowing multiple inputs to a serial connection
- log-spectral distance or log-spectral distortion, in signal processing
- loop stream detector, a microarchitectural design feature for detecting loop streams, found in the Intel Core and Nehalem processor families
- low self-discharge NiMH battery, a type of rechargeable battery
- low sulfur diesel - see ultra-low sulfur diesel (ULSD)
- LSD notation for domain analysis and description
Engineering
- limit state design, a design methodology used in structural engineering
- linear slot diffuser, a control device in HVAC engineering
- limited slip differential, a type of automobile differential
Medicine
- "low sexual desire", see hypoactive sexual desire disordercitation needed
- lumpyskin disease, caused by poxvirus
- lysosomal storage disease, a class of disorders caused by inborn errors of metabolism
Other fields
- least significant digit, in statistical analysis
- longshore drift, a geological process by which sediments move along a beach shore
In popular culture
- LSD (video game), a Japanese video game released in 1998
- Life, Sex & Death, a rock band
- Liquid Sound Design, a UK electronic music record label
- Left Spine Down, an iPunk band (industrial, punk, drum and bass)
- Love Sensuality Devotion: The Greatest Hits and Love Sensuality Devotion: The Remix Collection, a set of compilation albums from electronic music project Enigma
- Love's Secret Domain, an album by Coil released in 1991
- Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, a Beatles song
Other uses
- £sd or "L.s.d.", for Librae, solidi, denarii (pounds, shillings, pence), the popular name for the pre-decimal currencies of the UK and other countries
- Dock Landing Ship (US Navy hull classification: LSD), amphibious assault ships
- Long Slow Distance, a training method used by long distance runners who eschew fast, short runs in favor of slower but longer runs
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