ALD or Ald may refer to:

Medicine, science and technology

  • Adrenoleukodystrophy, a disease linked to the X chromosome
  • Alcoholic liver disease
  • Aldolase or ALD, an enzyme occurring naturally in animals
  • Assistive listening device used to improve hearing ability
  • Atomic layer deposition, a thin-film deposition technique
  • Asymmetric Laplace distribution, in probability theory and statistics

Places

  • Alderley Edge railway station, Cheshire, UK (National Rail code ALD)
  • Alderney, a Channel Island, Chapman code
  • Alderson station, West Virginia, US (Amtrak station code ALD)
  • Allahabad Junction railway station, Uttar Pradesh, India (station code ALD)
  • Alerta Airport, Peru (IATA code ALD)

Politics

  • Autonomy Liberty Democracy, a coalition of centre-left political parties in Aosta Valley, Italy
  • Arakan League for Democracy, a political party active in Rakhine State, Myanmar (Burma)

Businesses

  • Aimé Leon Dore, American fashion brand
  • ALD Automotive, a French fleet managing and operational car leasing company

Other uses

  • Ald (unit), an old Mongolian measure equal to the length between a man's outstretched arms
  • Alderman, a member of a municipal assembly or council
  • Assistant lighting designer, in the theatre
  • Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  • ALD, the Liberty dollar (private currency)
  • Acting lance daffadar, a military rank in Indian and Pakistani armies

See also

  • Aldehyde, an organic compound
  • Aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH), a type of enzyme
  • Aldolase, or Fructose-bisphosphate aldolase, an enzyme
  • ALD-52, a chemical analogue of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD)
  • ALDE (disambiguation)
  • Alde (disambiguation)