CLD may refer to:

Medicine

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 choleste ...

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 diseas ...

* Chronic lung disease * Chronic lifestyle disease

Transport

Chelsfield railway station Chelsfield railway station is on the South Eastern Main Line, serving the Chelsfield and Green Street Green areas south of Orpington, in the London Borough of Bromley, south-east London. It is down the line from Charing Cross railway station, ...

in Orpington, London (National Rail station code: CLD) * ChairLift Detachable, a classification of a

Detachable chairlift A detachable chairlift or high-speed chairlift is a type of passenger aerial lift, which, like a fixed-grip chairlift, consists of numerous chairs attached to a constantly moving wire rope (called a ''haul rope'') that is strung between two ...

McClellan–Palomar Airport McClellan–Palomar Airport (Palomar Airport) is a public airport southeast of Carlsbad in San Diego County, California. It is owned by the County of San Diego. The airport is used for both general and commercial aviation. As of March 2013, t ...

in CarLsbaD, California (IATA Code: CLD)

Science and technology

Causal loop diagram A causal loop diagram (CLD) is a causal diagram that visualizes 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 describes ...

for modeling dynamic systems * The Center for Life Detection, a NASA-supported collaboration of researchers in the science of detecting life beyond the Earth * The

Commercial LEO Destinations program The Commercial LEO Destinations program (CLD, or Commercial Destinations in Low Earth Orbit, or Commercial low Earth orbit (LEO) Development Program) is a public/private partnership program of NASA to help facilitate the building of private co ...

, a NASA project to support private businesses building in low Earth orbit * 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 8086 microprocessor and its 8-bit-external-bus variant, the 8088. Th ...

compatible CPUs, opposite of * CLD chromophore in organic chemistry and polymeric nonlinear optics * CLD player, a series of

Laserdisc player A LaserDisc player is a device designed to play video (Analog video, analog) and audio (Analog audio, analog or Digital audio, digital) stored on LaserDisc. LaserDisc was the first optical disc format marketed to consumers; it was introduced by ...

s with CD playback from Pioneer *

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 discre ...

, 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 for many of the operating systems created by Digital Equipment Corporation. DCL was originally implemented for IAS as the Program Development System (PDS), and later added to RSX-1 ...

* Configurable logic device, synonym for programmable logic device (PLD) * Constrained-layer damping, a mechanical engineering technique for suppression of vibration * Current limiting diode, otherwise known as constant current diode in electronics

Other

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, mathematician, photographer and reluctant Anglican deacon. His most notable works are ''Alice's Adventures ...

, the pen name of Lewis Carroll {{Disambiguation