CLD may refer to:
Medicine
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Cholesterol-lowering drug Lipid-lowering agents, also sometimes referred to as hypolipidemic agents, cholesterol-lowering drugs, or antihyperlipidemic agents are a diverse group of pharmaceuticals that are used to lower the level of lipids and lipoproteins such as cholester ...
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Chronic liver disease
Chronic liver disease in the clinical context is a disease process of the liver that involves a process of progressive destruction and regeneration of the liver parenchyma leading to fibrosis and cirrhosis. "Chronic liver disease" refers to disease ...
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Chronic lung disease
Transport
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Chelsfield railway station in Orpington, London (National Rail station code: CLD)
* ChairLift Detachable, a classification of a
Detachable chairlift
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McClellan–Palomar Airport
McClellan–Palomar Airport (Palomar Airport) is a public airport three miles (5 km) southeast of Carlsbad in San Diego County, California. It is owned by the County of San Diego. The airport is used for both general aviation and commercia ...
in
CarLsbaD, California (IATA Code: CLD)
Science and technology
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Causal loop diagram
A causal loop diagram (CLD) is a causal diagram that aids in visualizing how different variables in a system are causally interrelated. The diagram consists of a set of words and arrows. Causal loop diagrams are accompanied by a narrative which de ...
for modeling dynamic systems
* The
Center for Life Detection, a NASA-supported collaboration of researchers in the science of detecting life beyond the Earth
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Chaldean Neo-Aramaic (language), in
ISO 639-3 code (list of all codes beginning with "c")
* , the
clear
direction flag instruction on
x86
x86 (also known as 80x86 or the 8086 family) is a family of complex instruction set computer (CISC) instruction set architectures initially developed by Intel based on the Intel 8086 microprocessor and its 8088 variant. The 8086 was intr ...
compatible CPUs, opposite of
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CLD chromophore in organic chemistry and polymeric nonlinear optics
* CLD player, a series of
Laserdisc players with CD playback from Pioneer
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Color layout descriptor
In digital image and video processing, a color layout descriptor (CLD) is designed to capture the spatial distribution of color in an image. The feature extraction process consists of two parts: grid based representative color selection and dis ...
, a summary used in digital image processing to capture the spatial distribution of color in an image
* Command Definition Language, for defining commands for use with
DIGITAL Command Language
DIGITAL Command Language (DCL) is the standard command language adopted by many of the operating systems created by Digital Equipment Corporation. DCL had its roots in IAS, TOPS-20, and RT-11 and was implemented as a standard across most of Digit ...
* Configurable Logic Device, synonym for
PLD
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Constrained-layer damping, a mechanical engineering technique for suppression of vibration
* Current limiting diode, otherwise known as
constant current diode in electronics
Other
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Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (; 27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, poet and mathematician. His most notable works are ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' (1865) and its sequel ...
, the pen name of Lewis Carroll
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