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L
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l
n.
12th letter of the English alphabet
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L
L (named el ) is the twelfth letter of the modern English alphabet and the ISO basic Latin alphabet.
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L/l is a grapheme found only in the Slovak alphabet. It is an L with a caron diacritical mark, more normally but simplified to look like an apostrophe with L, and is pronounced as palatal lateral approximant , similar to the "lj-" sound in Ljubljana or million.
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L or l, described in English as L with stroke, is a letter of the Polish, Kashubian, Sorbian, Lacinka (Latin Belarusian), Latynka (Latin Ukrainian), Wymysorys, Navajo, Dene Suline, Inupiaq, Zuni, Hupa, and Dogrib alphabets, several proposed alphabets for the Venetian language, and the ISO 11940 romanization of the Thai alphabet. In Slavic languages, it represents the continuation of Proto-Slavic non-palatal l (see dark L). In most non-European languages, it represents a voiceless alveolar lateral fricative or similar sound.
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Acute accent
Carl Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement as Carl von Linné , was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who founded the modern system of naming organisms called binomial nomenclature. He is known by the epithet "father of modern taxonomy". Many of his writings were in Latin, and his name is rendered in Latin as (after 1761 Carolus a Linné).
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Cedilla
A cedilla ( ; from Spanish), also known as cedilha (from Portuguese) or cédille (from French), is a hook or tail ( ) added under certain letters as a diacritical mark to modify their pronunciation. In Catalan, French, and Portuguese, it is used only under the c, and the entire letter is called respectively c trencada (i.e. "broken C"), "c cédille", and "c cedilhado" (or "c cedilha", colloquially).
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Laplace transform
In mathematics the Laplace transform is an integral transform named after its discoverer Pierre-Simon Laplace . It takes a function of a positive real variable (often time) to a function of a complex variable (frequency).
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Lex (software)
Lex is a computer program that generates lexical analyzers ("scanners" or "lexers").
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L
Noun
1. the cardinal number that is the product of ten and five
(synonym) fifty, 50
(hypernym) large integer
2. a cgs unit of illumination equal to the brightness of a perfectly diffusing surface that emits or reflects one lumen per square centimeter
(synonym) lambert
(hypernym) illumination unit
3. the 12th letter of the Roman alphabet
(hypernym) letter, letter of the alphabet, alphabetic character
(member-holonym) Roman alphabet, Latin alphabet
l
Noun
1. a metric unit of capacity equal to the volume of 1 kilogram of pure water at 4 degrees centigrade and 760 mm of mercury (or approximately 1.76 pints)
(synonym) liter, litre, cubic decimeter, cubic decimetre
(hypernym) metric capacity unit
(part-holonym) dekaliter, dekalitre, decaliter, decalitre, dal, dkl
(part-meronym) deciliter, decilitre, dl
Adjective
1. being ten more than forty
(synonym) fifty, 50
(similar) cardinal
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L (das)
n.
l, 12th letter of the German alphabet
l (Liter)
liter, metric unit of capacity for liquids
l. (links)
left, to the left
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l
n.
l, 12th letter of the English alphabet
