Science and Technology
- SD video or standard-definition television
- SanDisk, a data storage company
- Secure Digital (SD), a flash memory card format
- Sega Dreamcast, a video game console by Sega
- Single domain (magnetic), a uniformly magnetized state
- Software Distributor, an HP-UX software package management system
- Splash Damage, a British game developing firm
- Standard deviation, a mathematical statistical measure
- Subdwarf star, a star with luminosity 1.5 to 2 magnitudes lower than that of a main-sequence star of the same spectral type
- Super Density disc, an optical disc storage format precursor to the DVD
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