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L2

Pronunciation: /ɛl/
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Definition of L

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.

L in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of L in the US English dictionary
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