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English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɛl.iːˈdiː/, /lɛd/
Audio (Southern England): (file) Audio (Southern England): (file)
- Rhymes: -iː, -ɛd
Noun
LED (plural LEDs)
- Initialism of light-emitting diode.
- 2008 May 21, Rebecca Cathcart, “A Developer’s Unusual Plan for Bright Lights, Inspired by a Dark Film”, in The New York Times:
- 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.
- 2012, Julio Sanchez, Maria P. Canton, Embedded Systems Circuits and Programming, →ISBN, page 12:
- 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.
- 2017 October, “Snap Circuits Light”, in Snap Circuits, Elenco, pages 5, 59:
- 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).
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LED — see also light-emitting diode
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Finnish
Pronunciation
Noun
LED
- alternative form of ledi (“LED”)
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French
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
- (electronics) LED (light-emitting diode)
- Synonyms: DEL, diode électroluminescente
German
Pronunciation
Noun
LED f (genitive LED, plural LEDs)
- LED (light-emitting diode)
- Synonym: Leuchtdiode
Declension
Declension of LED [feminine]
Further reading
- “LED” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
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Italian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English LED.
Pronunciation
Noun
LED m (invariable)
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