In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
LOD
Noun
LoD (plural LoDs)
(computer graphics) Initialism of level of detail.
Proper noun
LoD
(software) Initialism of Law of Demeter.
Anagrams
• 'old, DLO, DOL, Dol, LDO, dol, old
Noun
LOD (countable and uncountable, plural LODs)
(chemistry, initialism) Limit of detection; the smallest concentration that can be detected using a specific method.
(initialism) Alternative form of lod
(computer graphics, initialism) Level of detail.
(initialism) Length of day.
(military, law, initialism) Line of duty; an official determination of whether something occurred in the line of duty.
(computing, initialism) Linked Open Data; An international project that links data in the Web.
(initialism) Line of dance; A counterclockwise direction for circuiting the dance floor.
Anagrams
• 'old, DLO, DOL, Dol, LDO, dol, old
Etymology
Proper noun
Lod
A city in Israel
Synonyms
• Lydda (old name for the city)
Anagrams
• 'old, DLO, DOL, Dol, LDO, dol, old
Noun
lod (plural lods)
(statistics, initialism) Logarithm of odds; A measure of likelihood calculated by taking the log of the ratio of the probability of a hypothesis being true given the observed data over the probability that the hypothesis is false.
Anagrams
• 'old, DLO, DOL, Dol, LDO, dol, old
Source: Wiktionary
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