Technology and Science
- Selected area diffraction, a crystallographic experimental technique that can be performed inside a transmission electron microscope
- Silicon Avalanche Diode, an electronic component
- Single wavelength anomalous dispersion, a technique used in X-ray crystallography to determine the structure of proteins
- Sum of absolute differences, a simple metric for motion estimation in video compression
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