name: A surname (rare: 1 in 25000 families; popularity rank in the U.S.: #3049)
noun: A city in Israel
noun: (chemistry, initialism) Limit of detection; the smallest concentration that can be detected using a specific method.
noun: (computer graphics, initialism) Level of detail.
noun: (initialism) Length of day.
noun: (military, law, initialism) Line of duty; an official determination of whether something occurred in the line of duty.
noun: (computing, initialism) Linked Open Data; An international project that links data in the Web.
noun: (initialism) Line of dance; A counterclockwise direction for circuiting the dance floor.
noun: (statistics) Initialism of logarithm of odds. A measure of likelihood calculated by taking the log of the ratio of the probability of a hypothesis being true given the observed data over the probability that the hypothesis is false.
noun: (computer graphics) Initialism of level of detail.
noun: (software) Initialism of Law of Demeter. [(software, object-oriented programming) A design guideline for developing particularly object-oriented programs that mandates loose coupling between objects.]