L2

 
Pronunciation: /ɛl/

abbreviation

  • (in tables of sports results) games lost.
  • Chemistry laevorotatory: L-tryptophan
  • (L.) Lake, Loch, or Lough (chiefly on maps): L. Ontario
  • large (as a clothes size).
  • British (on a motor vehicle) learner driver.
  • (L.) Linnaeus (as the source of names of animal and plant species): Swallowtail Butterfly Papilio machaon (L., 1758)
  • lire: the San Paolo deal should raise around L1,500bn
  • Luxembourg (international vehicle registration).

symbol

  • Chemistry Avogadro’s constant.
  • Physics inductance.