Lid - Science and Technology

Science and Technology

  • Language Independent Datatypes (now General Purpose Datatypes), in computer science
  • Library Interchange Definition, file format in the Open Dylan programming language
  • Light-Weight Identity, a protocol for claiming a digital identity on the Internet
  • Lithium deuteride, a chemical used as deuterium-dense fuel in thermonuclear weapons
  • Local light injection and detection, in fiber optics, a method to determine fiber splice losses, especially in polarisation-maintaining fiber
  • League for Industrial Democracy, political party
  • Lewica i Demokraci (Left and Democrats), Polish political party
  • The ICAO code for Alidaunia Servizio Helibus, an aviation company

Read more about this topic:  Lid

Famous quotes containing the words science and, science and/or technology:

    “If you have science and art,
    You also have religion;
    But if you don’t have them,
    You better have religion.”
    —Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)

    “Science is a system of statements based on direct experience, and controlled by experimental verification. Verification in science is not, however, of single statements but of the entire system or a sub-system of such statements.”
    —Rudolf Carnap (1891–1970)

    “One can prove or refute anything at all with words. Soon people will perfect language technology to such an extent that they’ll be proving with mathematical precision that twice two is seven.”
    —Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)