LDA

See also: Lda.

English

Noun

LDA (countable and uncountable, plural LDAs)

1. (aviation) Initialism of localizer type directional aid.
2. (chemistry) Initialism of lithium diisopropylamide.
3. (physics) Initialism of local-density approximation.
   • 2016 April 26, Jie Ma, Lin-Wang Wang, “Using Wannier functions to improve solid band gap predictions in density functional theory”, in Scientific Reports, volume 6, →DOI, article 24924, page 1:

     Although widely successful, these methods depend on the mixing parameters and are computationally more expensive than local/semilocal functionals such as the local density approximation (LDA) or generalized gradient approximation.

4. (statistics) Initialism of linear discriminant analysis.
5. (veterinary) Initialism of left-displaced abomasum.
6. Initialism of legal drinking age.
7. (physics, chemistry) Initialism of low-density amorphous ice.; a form of H₂O water ice, with a density less than that of liquid water, but denser than the usual crystalline ice

   Coordinate terms: MDA, HDA, HGW, ice I, ice Ih, ice Ic, ice II, ice III, ice IV, ice V, ice VI, ice VII, ice VIII, ice IX, ice X, ice XI, ice XII, ice XIII, ice XIV, ice XV, ice XVI, ice XVII, ice XVIII, ice XIX

8. (Pakistan) Initialism of Lahore Development Authority.

Anagrams

• ADL, DAL, DLA, Dal, LAD, dal, lad