LSD (disambiguation)

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 sexual arousal disorder and hypoactive sexual desire disorder
* 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)
* ' and ', 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

See also

* LDS