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SID

nounadverbcommon in dialogue

  • //ɛs aɪ diː//

Sound Interface Device, a sound chip used in some early computers.

noun

  1. 1

    Sound Interface Device, a sound chip used in some early computers.

  2. 2

    Variant of security identifierAbbreviation of security identifier.

    If the call to this function fails, you can assume the SID was invalid — even if it's a well-known SID.

  3. 3

    Variant of standard instrument departureInitialism of standard instrument departure.

adverb

  1. 1

    once a day, such as for the administration of medication. From Latin semel in die.

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SIDs
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).