Definition of "DL"

DL

noun
countable and uncountable, plural DLs
1. (computing) Initialism of download.
2. (military, nautical) Initialism of light destroyer, a variant of the destroyer type of warship.
3. (military, nautical) Initialism of destroyer leader, a variant of the destroyer type of warship.
4. Initialism of driver's license.
5. (baseball) Initialism of disabled list.
6. Initialism of down low.
7. (technology) Initialism of distribution list.
8. (ABDL) Initialism of diaper lover.
9. (machine learning) Initialism of deep learning.
  Quotations
  Before Transformer models, the attention mechanism was proposed as a helper for improving conventional DL models such as RNNs.
  2021, Savas Yildirim, Meysam Asgari-Chenaghlu, Mastering Transformers […] , Packt Publishing Ltd, page 26
10. (telegraphy) Initialism of day letter.
verb
third-person singular simple present DLs, present participle DLing, simple past and past participle DLed or DL'd
1. (computing) Initialism of download.
2. (baseball, transitive, informal) To place on the disabled list.
  Quotations
  After 7 years of being in a rot league, I have learned that "day to day" in baseballese means "at least a week, maybe more, and maybe after the week, then we may DL him."
  1996 June 3, Joe in MA [username], “Re: Jim Edmonds' return date?”, in rec.sport.baseball.fantasy‎ (Usenet)