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LED en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ɛl.iːˈdiː/
  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /lɛd/
  • (Southern-England) audio

Meanings

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of light-emitting diode.
    • In some projects, the fiber optic cable will be mounted on the LEDs (D1, D6, D8, and on U22) or the phototransistor (Q4). […] Light is transmitted from the color LED, through the fiber optic cable, to control the NPN transistor (Q2) and red LED (D1). 2017 October 14, “Snap Circuits Light”, in Snap Circuits, Elenco, archived from the original on 06 Jun 2025, pages 5, 59:
    • The area already has plenty of loud billboards and klieg lights that have drawn complaints from some neighborhood groups, so the city is concerned about anything billboardesque. Mr. Astani’s application to build the LED panels is undergoing an environmental review by city planning officials. 2008 May 21, Rebecca Cathcart, “A Developer’s Unusual Plan for Bright Lights, Inspired by a Dark Film”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Jan 2021:
    • The light-emitting capacity of an LED is measured in megacandela [recte millicandelas] or mcd. Small commercial LEDs range from 10 to about 5000 mcd. 2012, Julio Sanchez, Maria P. Canton, Embedded Systems Circuits and Programming, →ISBN, page 12:

Forms

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LEDs Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

OLED

Relateds

LCD · VDU · TFT · CRT

Translations (24)

sjo ᠠᡞᠯ ᡞ ᡩᡞ (LED — see also light-emitting diode) · nl led (LED — see also light-emitting diode) · ru СИД (LED — see also light-emitting diode) · fr LED (LED — see also light-emitting diode) · es led (LED — see also light-emitting diode) · he לֶד (LED — see also light-emitting diode) · pt LED (LED — see also light-emitting diode) · fa الایدی (LED — see also light-emitting diode) · mk ЛЕД (LED — see also light-emitting diode) · it LED (LED — see also light-emitting diode) · he דפ״א (LED — see also light-emitting diode) · eo LED (LED — see also light-emitting diode) · fr DEL (LED — see also light-emitting diode) · pl LED (LED — see also light-emitting diode) · ru СД (LED — see also light-emitting diode) · ro LED (LED — see also light-emitting diode) · ja LED (eruīdī) (LED — see also light-emitting diode) · de LED (LED — see also light-emitting diode) · ro led (LED — see also light-emitting diode) · et LED (LED — see also light-emitting diode) · fi ledi (LED — see also light-emitting diode) · hu LED (LED — see also light-emitting diode) · fi LED (LED — see also light-emitting diode) · yue LED (LED — see also light-emitting diode)

wikidata: Q25504