"LED" meaning in English

See LED in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ɛl.iːˈdiː/, /lɛd/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-LED1.wav , LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-LED2.wav Forms: LEDs [plural]
Rhymes: -iː, -ɛd Head templates: {{en-noun}} LED (plural LEDs)
  1. Initialism of light-emitting diode. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: light-emitting diode Categories (topical): Light sources Derived forms: OLED Related terms: CRT, LCD, TFT, VDU Translations (LED — see also light-emitting diode): LED [initialism] (Chinese Cantonese), led [masculine] (Dutch), LED (Esperanto), LED (Estonian), ledi (Finnish), LED (Finnish), DEL [feminine] (French), LED [feminine] (French), LED [feminine] (German), LED (Hungarian), LED [masculine] (Italian), LED (eruīdī) (alt: エルイーディー) (Japanese), ЛЕД (english: LED) (Macedonian), الایدی (el-i-di) (Persian), LED [masculine] (Polish), LED [masculine] (Portuguese), LED [neuter] (Romanian), led [neuter] (Romanian), СД (english: SD) [masculine] (Russian), СИД (SID) [masculine] (Russian), led [masculine] (Spanish)

Inflected forms

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