CLD

CLD may refer to:

Medicine

• Cholesterol-lowering drug
• Chronic liver disease
• Chronic lung disease
• Chronic lifestyle disease

Transport

• Chelsfield railway station in Orpington, London (National Rail station code: CLD)
• ChairLift Detachable, a classification of a Detachable chairlift
• McClellan–Palomar Airport in CarLsbaD, California (IATA Code: CLD)

Science and technology

• Causal loop diagram for modeling dynamic systems
• The Center for Life Detection, a NASA-supported collaboration of researchers in the science of detecting life beyond the Earth
• Chaldean Neo-Aramaic (language), in ISO 639-3 code (list of all codes beginning with "c")
• cld, the clear direction flag instruction on x86 compatible CPUs, opposite of std
• CLD chromophore in organic chemistry and polymeric nonlinear optics
• CLD player, a series of Laserdisc players with CD playback from Pioneer
• Color layout descriptor, a summary used in digital image processing to capture the spatial distribution of color in an image
• Command Definition Language, for defining commands for use with DIGITAL Command Language
• Configurable Logic Device, synonym for PLD
• Constrained-layer damping, a mechanical engineering technique for suppression of vibration
• Current limiting diode, otherwise known as constant current diode in electronics

Other

• Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, the pen name of Lewis Carroll