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L2

Syllabification: (L)
Pronunciation: /el/
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Definition of L

abbreviation

  • (in tables of sports results) games lost.
  • Chemistry levorotatory:L-tryptophan
  • (L.) Lake, Loch, or Lough (chiefly on maps):L. Ontario
  • large (as a clothes size).
  • Latin.
  • Liberal.
  • (L.) Linnaeus (as the source of names of animal and plant species):Swallowtail Butterfly Papilio machaon (L., 1758)
  • lire.

symbol

  • Chemistry Avogadro’s number.
  • Physics inductance.

L in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of L in the British & World English dictionary