L Definition

el
noun
The twelfth letter of the English alphabet: from the Greek lambda, a borrowing from the Phoenician.
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Any of the speech sounds that this letter represents, as, in English, the (l) of love.
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A type or impression for l or L.
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The 12th in a series.
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A Roman numeral for 50: with a superior bar (), 50,000
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abbreviation
Land.
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Large.
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Latitude.
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Law.
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Length.
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adjective
Of l or L.
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Twelfth in a sequence or group.
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Shaped like L.
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symbol
Avogadro constant.
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Inductance.
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Pound(s) sterling.
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(computing) The ASCII control character form feed in caret notation.

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affix
Levorotatory.
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Having an asymmetrical, left-handed spatial arrangement of atoms.
L-glucose.
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letter

The twelfth letter of the English alphabet, called el and written in the Latin script.

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The letter l with a stroke.

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numeral

The ordinal number twelfth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called el and written in the Latin script.

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pronoun

A Chinese surname (see 陸, 陆).

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A Chinese surname (see 盧, 卢).

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Alternative spelling of Lugh.

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A municipality in the district of Inn in the Swiss canton of Graubünden.

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The language spoken in Yunnan province of China.

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In biochemistry, a symbol used as a prefix to indicate the spatial configuration of certain organic compounds with asymmetric carbon atoms. It is used if an organic compound has a configuration about an asymmetric carbon atom analogous to that of L-glyceraldehyde (the arbitrarily chosen standard), in which the hydroxy (OH) functional group is on the left side of the asymmetric carbon atom in a Fischer projection formula.
An L-amino acid.
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Origin of L

  • From l(evorotatory)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

L Sentence Examples

  • If m, and m 2 are the strengths of two poles, d the distance between them expressed in centimetres, and f the force in dynes, f=ml m2/d2 (I) The force is one of attraction or repulsion, according as the sign of the product m l m 2 is negative or positive.

  • The strength of the induced current is - HScosO/L, where 0 is the inclination of the axis of the circuit to the direction of the field, and L the coefficient of self-induction; the resolved part of the magnetic moment in the direction of the field is equal to - HS 2 cos 2 6/L, and if there are n molecules in a unit of volume, their axes being distributed indifferently in all directions, the magnetization of the substance will be-3nHS 2 /L, and its susceptibility - 3S 2 /L (Maxwell, Electricity and Magnetism, § 838).

  • L is the condition of outgrowth with gl, gill lamellae.

  • PrGabp l, Rudiment of the appendage of the praegenital somite which disappears.

  • And this is not strange seeing that of the former such abundant l See Porter in Hastings' Bible Did.

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