ALD or Ald may refer to:
Medicine, science and technology
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Adrenoleukodystrophy
Adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD) is a disease linked to the X chromosome. It is a result of fatty acid buildup caused by peroxisomal fatty acid beta oxidation which results in the accumulation of very long chain fatty acids in tissues throughout the b ...
, a disease linked to the X chromosome
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Alcoholic liver disease
Alcoholic liver disease (ALD), also called alcohol-related liver disease (ARLD), is a term that encompasses the liver manifestations of alcohol overconsumption, including fatty liver, alcoholic hepatitis, and chronic hepatitis with liver fibrosis ...
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Aldolase
Fructose-bisphosphate aldolase (), often just aldolase, is an enzyme catalyzing a reversible reaction that splits the aldol, fructose 1,6-bisphosphate, into the triose phosphates dihydroxyacetone phosphate (DHAP) and glyceraldehyde 3-phosphat ...
or ALD, an enzyme occurring naturally in animals
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Assistive listening device
An assistive listening device (ALD) is part of a system used to improve hearing ability for people in a variety of situations where they are unable to distinguish speech in noisy environments. Often, in a noisy or crowded room it is almost impossi ...
used to improve hearing ability
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Atomic layer deposition
Atomic layer deposition (ALD) is a thin-film deposition technique based on the sequential use of a gas-phase chemical process; it is a subclass of chemical vapour deposition. The majority of ALD reactions use two chemicals called precursors (a ...
, a thin-film deposition technique
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Asymmetric Laplace distribution, in probability theory and statistics
Places
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Alderley Edge railway station
Alderley Edge railway station serves the large village of Alderley Edge in Cheshire, England. The station is 13¾ miles (22 km) south of Manchester Piccadilly on the Crewe to Manchester Line.
History
Opened by the Manchester and ...
, Cheshire, UK (National Rail code ALD)
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Alderney
Alderney (; french: Aurigny ; Auregnais: ) is the northernmost of the inhabited Channel Islands. It is part of the Bailiwick of Guernsey, a British Crown dependency. It is long and wide.
The island's area is , making it the third-larges ...
, a Channel Island, Chapman code
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Alderson station, West Virginia, US (Amtrak station code ALD)
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Allahabad Junction railway station
Prayagraj Junction (station code: PRYJ), is a railway station on the Howrah–Delhi main line, Prayagraj–Mau–Gorakhpur main line and Howrah–Prayagraj–Mumbai line. It is the headquarters of the North Central Railway zone. It is locat ...
, Uttar Pradesh, India (station code ALD)
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Alerta Airport
Alerta Airport is an airstrip serving Alerta, a village near the Bolivian border in the Ucayali Region of Peru. The village is on the Río Muymanu (sv), a stream in the Amazon basin.
The airstrip is north of the village. The runway may have ...
, Peru (IATA code ALD)
Politics
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Autonomy Liberty Democracy
Autonomy Liberty Democracy (''Autonomie Liberté Démocratie'', ALD) was a centre-left coalition in Aosta Valley, Italy. It took part to three Italian general elections and elected representatives in both houses of the Italian Parliament.
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, a coalition of centre-left political parties in Aosta Valley, Italy
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Arakan League for Democracy
The Arakan League for Democracy ( my, ရခိုင်ဒီမိုကရေစီ အဖွဲ့ချုပ်; abbreviated ALD) is a political party active in Rakhine State, Myanmar (Burma).
History
The ALD was founded on 27 September 1 ...
, a political party active in Rakhine State, Myanmar (Burma)
Other uses
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Ald (unit) Ald is an obsolete Mongolian measure equal to the length between a man's outstretched arms. An ald is therefore approximately equal to
See also
* Mongolian units
Mongolian culture
Units of length
Human-based units of measurement
Obsolete u ...
, an old Mongolian measure equal to the length between a man's outstretched arms
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ALD Automotive
ALD Automotive is a French fleet managing and operational car leasing company and a majority owned subsidiary of Société Générale. The company is active internationally and manages around 1.5 million vehicles. With a direct presence in 41 cou ...
, a French fleet managing and operational car leasing company
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Alderman
An alderman is a member of a municipal assembly or council in many jurisdictions founded upon English law. The term may be titular, denoting a high-ranking member of a borough or county council, a council member chosen by the elected members them ...
, a member of a municipal assembly or council
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lighting designer
In theatre
Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a ...
, in the theatre
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Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
The ''Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary'' (''OALD'') was the first advanced learner's dictionary of English. It was first published in 1948. It is the largest English-language dictionary from Oxford University Press aimed at a non-native au ...
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*ALD, the
Liberty dollar (private currency)
The American Liberty Dollar (ALD) was a private currency produced in the United States.
The currency was issued in minted metal rounds (similar to coins), gold and silver certificates, and electronic currency (eLD). ALD certificates are "war ...
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Aldehyde
In organic chemistry, an aldehyde () is an organic compound containing a functional group with the structure . The functional group itself (without the "R" side chain) can be referred to as an aldehyde but can also be classified as a formyl group ...
, an organic compound
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Aldehyde dehydrogenase
Aldehyde dehydrogenases () are a group of enzymes that catalyse the oxidation of aldehydes. They convert aldehydes (R–C(=O)) to carboxylic acids (R–C(=O)). The oxygen comes from a water molecule. To date, nineteen ALDH genes have b ...
(ALDH), a type of enzyme
*Aldolase, or
Fructose-bisphosphate aldolase
Fructose-bisphosphate aldolase (), often just aldolase, is an enzyme catalyzing a reversible reaction that splits the aldol, fructose 1,6-bisphosphate, into the triose phosphates dihydroxyacetone phosphate (DHAP) and glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate ( ...
, an enzyme
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ALD-52
ALD-52, also known as 1-acetyl-LSD, is a chemical analogue of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD). It was originally discovered by Albert Hofmann in 1957 but was not widely studied until the rise in popularity of psychedelics in the 1960s.
Effec ...
, a chemical analogue of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD)
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ALDE (disambiguation)
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Alde (disambiguation)
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