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
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