noun.
A part of a house or other structure projecting at a right angle from the main body, so as to form with it the figure of the letter L: as, the building has an L of 20 feet.
noun.
A rectangularly bent pipe-connection. Also ell in both senses.
noun.
An abbreviation of the Latin (New Latin) Baccalaureus Litterarum, Bachelor of Letters.
noun.
In musical notation, an abbreviation for left hand.
An abbreviation of Latin locus sigilli, ‘place of the seal’: usually inserted within brackets in copies of documents to indicate the position of the seal in the originals.
noun.
Used colloquially for el., an abbreviation of elevated, shortened from elevated railway.
noun.
An abbreviation of Literate in Arts.
An abbreviation of the Latin Legum Baccalaureus, Bachelor of Laws.
The twelfth letter and ninth consonant of the English alphabet.
A symbol
in chem., for lithium: also Li;
in Roman numerals, for 50, and with a line drawn above it (L) for 50,000.
An abbreviation.
[lowercase] in music, of la (in solmization);
of Laiin;
in stage-directions, of left;
[lowercase] of liber, a book, as a division of a literary work;
[lowercase or cap.] of libra, pound sterling, when written after the figures (when before the figures, it has the conventional form £): as, 100l. = £100;
[lowercase] in a ship's log-book, of lightning;
[lowercase] in references, of line: as, Milton, Lycidas, l. 72;
[lowercase] of logarithm;
[lowercase] in astronomy, of longitude (l denoting the heliocentric and λ the geocentric longitude);
[lowercase] of lege;
[cap. or lowercase] in anatomy, of lumbar: used in vertebral formulæ.
noun.
abbreviation
noun.
An abbreviation of letter of credit.
noun.
An abbreviation
noun.
in printing, of lower case (that is, small letters, as opposed to capitals);
noun.
of the Latin loco citato, in the place cited: used to avoid repetition of a citation or reference already given.
noun.
An abbreviation of Life Guards;
noun.
of Low German (often Low German).
noun.
An abbreviation of Light Infantry;
noun.
of Licentiate of Instruction;
noun.
of Long Island.
A symbol:
In chem., l- before certain compounds has reference to their levorotation, as distinguished from dextrorotation (d-) or inaction (i-).
In mineralogy, the final letter of the general symbol hkl, given to the face of a crystal in the system of Miller. See symbol, 7.
In electricity, the symbol for inductance (which see).
In physical, for length: used in formulæ.
An abbreviation
of Lady;
of Lake;
of lane;
of Latitude;
of law;