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  • LCD
    LCD
    abbreviation
    liquid crystal display: a method of displaying readings continuously, as on digital watches, portable computers, and calculators, using a liquid crystal film, sealed between glass plates, that changes its optical properties when a voltage is applied.
  • L.C.D.
    L.C.D.
    abbreviation
    least common denominator; lowest common denominator.
  • lcd
    lcd
    abbreviation
    lowest common denominator

LCD

1 American  

abbreviation

  1. liquid crystal display: a method of displaying readings continuously, as on digital watches, portable computers, and calculators, using a liquid crystal film, sealed between glass plates, that changes its optical properties when a voltage is applied.


L.C.D. 2 American  
Or l.c.d.

abbreviation

  1. least common denominator; lowest common denominator.


lcd 1 British  

abbreviation

  1. lowest common denominator

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

LCD 2 British  

abbreviation

  1. liquid-crystal display

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

LCD Scientific  
/ ēl′sē-dē′ /
  1. Short for liquid-crystal display. A low-power, flat-panel display used in many digital devices to display numbers or images. It is made of a liquid containing crystals that are affected by electric current, sandwiched between filtering layers of glass or plastic. LCDs do not produce light of their own; instead, when electric current is passed through the material, the molecules of the “liquid crystal” twist so that they either reflect or transmit light from an external source.


Etymology

Origin of LCD

First recorded in 1970–75


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Styles begins his tour extension in April with Tinashe in Phoenix before later hitting the road with additional guests including LCD Soundsystem, the Womack Sisters and Caroline Polachek.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026

Graphing calculators are no longer the novelty they were roughly half a century ago, and the cost of components like LCD screens and processors has fallen since then.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026

The early word from Mr. Styles is that the record was inspired in part by the music of LCD Soundsystem.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 10, 2026

But by his own admission, Styles attributes the vivid sonic textures of his latest album to the “joyous” influence of LCD Soundsystem.

From Salon ● Mar. 6, 2026

Beneath an LCD screen was a small hole.

From "Looking for Alaska" by John Green

Right now, L.C.D. lighting is the cheapest and most efficient way of replacing the sun, but it’s still a major expense for vertical farms that old-fashioned greenhouses don’t have.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 8, 2019

The system featured an L.C.D. screen, which was linked by radio to a GoPro mounted on the Hasselblad’s viewfinder, and controllers to aim the camera.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 11, 2016

The machines fire electromagnetic signals deep into the ground, and an L.C.D. screen shows the patterns of the waves as they ricochet back to the surface.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 3, 2015

That is, Ive’s contribution was to combine, as elegantly as possible, elements decided largely by engineers and others: a battery, a disk drive, an L.C.D. screen, a track wheel.

From The New Yorker ● Feb. 16, 2015

The L.C.D. provides a continuous display, but to be seen clearly it must be angled according to the available light.

From Time Magazine Archive

Yes fascinating as it is the dilemma that all those who work with color face now - backlit colors of monitors and lcd screen versus colors as they exist in the world.

From New York Times ● Feb. 28, 2018

The powerful zoom lens pops off on a short tether and then displays images on a 1.8-in. lcd color screen.

From Time Magazine Archive

Price:$180More info: The Flip Mino Mitsubishi LaserVue TV You say you have a sweet plasma or lcd TV?

From Time Magazine Archive

Put the LaserVue alongside Dorfman's lcd, and his reds would look orange.

From Time Magazine Archive

You also get to be green when you watch this 65-incher: it draws two-thirds less power than a same-size lcd or plasma.

From Time Magazine Archive

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