ALD or Ald may refer to:
Medicine, science and technology
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Adrenoleukodystrophy
Adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD) is a genetic disorder, disease linked to the X chromosome. It is a result of fatty acid buildup caused by failure of peroxisome#Metabolic functions, peroxisomal fatty acid beta oxidation which results in the accumulation ...
, 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 fibrosi ...
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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 impossib ...
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 wiktionary:precu ...
, 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, Cheshire, UK (National Rail code ALD)
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Alderney
Alderney ( ; ; ) is the northernmost of the inhabited Channel Islands. It is part of the Bailiwick of Guernsey, a British Crown Dependencies, Crown dependency. It is long and wide.
The island's area is , making it the third-largest isla ...
, a Channel Island, Chapman code
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Alderson station
Alderson station is an Amtrak station in Alderson, West Virginia, served by the ''Cardinal''. It is located at 1 C&O Plaza, and functions as a request stop. The station is a contributing property within the Alderson Historic District, which has ...
, West Virginia, US (Amtrak station code ALD)
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Allahabad Junction railway station
Prayagraj Junction (station code: PRYJ), formerly known as Allahabad Junction, is a railway station on the Howrah-Gaya-Delhi line, Howrah–Delhi main line, Prayagraj–Mau–Gorakhpur main line and Howrah–Prayagraj–Mumbai line. It is ...
, 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.
History
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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 (; abbreviated ALD) is a political party active in Rakhine State, Myanmar (Burma).
History
The ALD was founded on 27 September 1989, in Yangon, and it was registered with the election commission on 2 October 1989 ...
, a political party active in Rakhine State, Myanmar (Burma)
Businesses
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Aimé Leon Dore
Aimé Leon Dore (pronounced ''ay-mey lee-on door'') is a fashion and lifestyle brand founded in March 2014 by Teddy Santis. Based in Queens, New York, the brand's flagship store is located on Mulberry Street in Nolita, Manhattan.
Etymology
T ...
, American fashion brand
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ALD Automotive
Ayvens (formerly 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 3.42 million vehicles. With a dire ...
, a French fleet managing and operational car leasing company
Other uses
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Ald (unit) Ald is an obsolete Mongolian measure equal to the average human male's armspan (length between a male's outstretched arms). An ald is therefore approximately equal to .
See also
* Mongolian units
* Fathom
A fathom is a unit of length in the ...
, an old Mongolian measure equal to the length between a man's outstretched arms
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Alderman
An alderman is a member of a Municipal government, municipal assembly or council in many jurisdictions founded upon English law with similar officials existing in the Netherlands (wethouder) and Belgium (schepen). The term may be titular, denotin ...
, a member of a municipal assembly or council
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lighting designer, 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-nativ ...
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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 () (lat. ''al''cohol ''dehyd''rogenatum, dehydrogenated alcohol) is an organic compound containing a functional group with the structure . The functional group itself (without the "R" side chain) can be referred ...
, 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 ...
(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-phosp ...
, an enzyme
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ALD-52
ALD-52, also known as 1-acetyl-LSD (1A-LSD), is a psychedelic drug of the lysergamide family related to lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD). It has been reported to produce similar psychoactive effects as LSD, but its pharmacological effects on hu ...
, a chemical analogue of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD)
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ALDE (disambiguation)
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Alde (disambiguation)
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