SD
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sea-damaged.
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South Dakota (approved especially for use with zip code).
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Statistics. standard deviation.
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school district.
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sight draft.
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sine die.
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Statistics. standard deviation.
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sea-damaged.
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senior deacon.
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South Dakota.
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special delivery.
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Statistics. standard deviation.
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South Dakota
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Also: sd. statistics standard deviation
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sine die
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sound
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philosophy sense datum
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Etymology
Origin of SD1
From the German word Sicherheitsdienst
Origin of S.D.6
From Latin Scientiae Doctor
Example Sentences
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I had more trouble with voiceless consonants than voiced ones—one of the sample sentences for this type of SD reduced my voice to a whisper on nearly every syllable.
From Slate ● Apr. 18, 2026
There’s a joke on TikTok that one person in every group is the “digital camera friend,” wrangling everyone for photos and handling SD cards and adapters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2025
Edward Snowden removed information using a SD memory card he hid on some occasions in a Rubik’s cube.
From Salon ● Jun. 30, 2025
Riding for Team SD Worx, the 29-year-old claimed victory in thrilling style by winning a four-way sprint finish ahead of France's Pauline Ferrand-Prevot, Liane Lippert of Germany and Poland's Katarzyna Niewiadoma-Phinney.
From BBC ● Apr. 6, 2025
Assume a line drawn through B parallel to SD, meeting SA in A' and SC in C'.
From An Elementary Course in Synthetic Projective Geometry by Lehmer, Derrick Norman
Waterhouse bore away to the sd. sloop to Consult with Capt.
From Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents by Jameson, J. Franklin (John Franklin)
Sutton sd. att yt tyme there was noe dogg there, but his wch was a puppy, & Mr Danes that would not byte.
From Anne Bradstreet and Her Time by Campbell, Helen
Rime e Satire, 1 vol.; together 5 vols. royal 8vo., sd., uncut, 24s.
From Notes and Queries, Number 58, December 7, 1850 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Bell, George
Paris, 1818. ——, another edition, 8 vols. royal 8vo. sd. 36s.
From Notes and Queries, Number 42, August 17, 1850 by Various
King of England: Van den Derden Edewaert, Coning van Engelant, Rymkronyk geschreven het Jaer 1347, door Jan de Klerk van Antwerpen, 8vo., sd., scarce, 1s. 6d.
From Notes and Queries, Number 58, December 7, 1850 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Bell, George
Error bars represent s.d. of two biological replicates. e, Average editing levels of sites in different tissues from wild-type and Adar2−/− mice.
From Nature ● Oct. 10, 2017
Data are mean ± s.d. g, Comparison of mutation spectrums after targeting mouse embryos with sgRNA2b plus Cas9 mRNA or protein.
From Nature ● Sep. 19, 2017
We then defined a threshold that was 2 s.d. of the firing rate, but not below 0.2 Hz and not above 1 Hz.
From Nature ● Mar. 28, 2017
Data are presented as mean ± s.d. unless indicated otherwise.
From Nature ● Mar. 19, 2017
S.D., salutem dicit=Sends greeting. s.d., sine die=Without day.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
Gracie said one of her earliest “Little House” memories is visiting the family homestead in De Smet, S.D., when she was about 5 years old, and the two have attended several cast reunions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
But apparently no one said where exactly, because Boritt soon set out for Yankton, S.D., where he graduated from the now-defunct Yankton College in 1962.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026
He regularly stops in smaller places like Bismarck, N.D., and Rapid City, S.D., to “pick up another week of playing,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 16, 2024
The courtyard of the Oglala Lakota Artspace in Kyle, S.D., features a stainless steel sculpture representing Star Knowledge.
From New York Times ● Jan. 9, 2024
Pretending to be the owner of the house, the S.D. man had invited Jop in.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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Test statistic = 2.18. p-value = 0.0719 using ⎛ x¯ d = 3.71, sd = 4.5⎞ .
From Textbooks ● Mar. 27, 2020
Cornered, I moved content on to a micro sd card, using an external card reader, then moved that card into the phone.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 31, 2018
Using the differences data, calculate the sample mean and the sample standard deviation. x¯ d = 3.71, sd = 4.5.
From Textbooks ● Sep. 19, 2013
That in April last was twelve-months' hee was Shipped Carpenter of sd Ship at London then called the Wm. and Anne, Anthony Thorne of London Commander, mr.
From Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents by Jameson, J. Franklin (John Franklin)
Considering that I am the most ordinarie of his daughters, 'tis singular I sd have secured the best husband.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 by Various
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