LR
Encyclopedia

Codes

  • LR, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for Liberia
    Liberia
    Liberia , officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Sierra Leone on the west, Guinea on the north and Côte d'Ivoire on the east. Liberia's coastline is composed of mostly mangrove forests while the more sparsely populated inland consists of forests that open...

  • LR, the Aerodrome Identification Letters for RAF Little Rissington
    RAF Little Rissington
    RAF Little Rissington is an RAF aerodrome and former RAF station in Gloucestershire, England. It was once home to the Central Flying School, the Vintage Pair and the Red Arrows.Built during the 1930s, the station was opened in 1938 and closed in 1994...

  • LR, the IATA code for Lacsa/TACA
    Grupo TACA
    TACA is the trade name "brand" comprising a group of five independently IATA-coded and -owned Central American airlines, whose operations are combined to function as one and a number of other independently owned and IATA-coded regional airlines which code-share and feed the TACA brand system...

     airline

Science and technology

Science
  • Lr, the symbol for Lawrencium
    Lawrencium
    Lawrencium is a radioactive synthetic chemical element with the symbol Lr and atomic number 103. In the periodic table of the elements, it is a period 7 d-block element and the last element of actinide series...

     in the periodic table of elements
  • Latus rectum, a line segment parallel to the directrix through the focus of a conic section
  • L(R)
    L(R)
    In set theory, L is the smallest transitive inner model of ZF containing all the ordinals and all the reals. It can be constructed in a manner analogous to the construction of L , by adding in all the reals at the start, and then iterating the definable powerset operation through all the...

     in set theory

Technology
  • LR(k)
    LR parser
    In computer science, an LR parser is a parser that reads input from Left to right and produces a Rightmost derivation. The term LR parser is also used; where the k refers to the number of unconsumed "look ahead" input symbols that are used in making parsing decisions...

     (Left-to-right, Rightmost-derivation with k symbols of lookahead), a type of parser for deterministic context-free grammars
  • Lexical resource
    Lexical resource
    A lexical resource is a database consisting of one or several dictionaries.Depending on the type of languages that are addressed, the LR may be qualified as monolingual, bilingual or multilingual. For bilingual and multilingual LRs, the words may be connected or not connected, from a language to...

    , a database consisting of one or several dictionaries
  • Lactated Ringer's solution
    Lactated Ringer's solution
    Lactated Ringer's solution is a solution that is isotonic with blood and intended for intravenous administration. It may also be given subcutaneously....

    , an intravenous fluid
  • Lightning Rod
    Lightning rod
    A lightning rod or lightning conductor is a metal rod or conductor mounted on top of a building and electrically connected to the ground through a wire, to protect the building in the event of lightning...

    , a device used to divert and ground lightning
  • .22 Long Rifle
    .22 Long Rifle
    The .22 Long Rifle rimfire cartridge is a long established variety of ammunition, and in terms of units sold is still by far the most common in the world today. The cartridge is often referred to simply as .22 LR and various rifles, pistols, revolvers, and even some smoothbore shotguns have...

    , a type of rimfire cartridge ammunition

Arts

  • The Lord of the Rings
    The Lord of the Rings
    The Lord of the Rings is a high fantasy epic written by English philologist and University of Oxford professor J. R. R. Tolkien. The story began as a sequel to Tolkien's earlier, less complex children's fantasy novel The Hobbit , but eventually developed into a much larger work. It was written in...

    , a novel by J. R. R. Tolkien and its subsequent adaptations
  • The Lost Road and Other Writings
    The Lost Road and Other Writings
    The Lost Road and Other Writings is the fifth volume of The History of Middle-earth, a series of compilations of drafts and essays written by J. R. R. Tolkien...

    , part of The History of Middle-earth book series by Christopher Tolkien
  • Logan's Run
    Logan's Run
    Logan's Run is a novel by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson. Published in 1967, it depicts a dystopic ageist future society in which both population and the consumption of resources are maintained in equilibrium by requiring the death of everyone reaching a particular age...

    , 1967 novel that has spawned multiple adaptations and sequels in literature, film, television, and comic books
  • Late Registration
    Late Registration
    Late Registration is the second studio album by American hip hop artist Kanye West, released August 30, 2005, on Roc-A-Fella Records. Recording sessions for the album took place over the course of a year at various recording studios located in New York City and Hollywood...

    , rapper/producer Kanye West's second album

Companies, products and trademarks

  • Land Rover
    Land Rover
    Land Rover is a British car manufacturer with its headquarters in Gaydon, Warwickshire, United Kingdom which specialises in four-wheel-drive vehicles. It is owned by the Indian company Tata Motors, forming part of their Jaguar Land Rover group...

    , a British car manufacturer
  • Lloyd's Register
    Lloyd's Register
    The Lloyd's Register Group is a maritime classification society and independent risk management organisation providing risk assessment and mitigation services and management systems certification. Historically, as Lloyd's Register of Shipping, it was a specifically maritime organisation...

    , a maritime classification society and independent risk management organisation
  • Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, photo editing software
  • Lego Racers
    LEGO Racers
    Lego Racers is a racing video game developed by High Voltage Software and published by Lego Media, released for Microsoft Windows, Nintendo 64, Game Boy Color, and PlayStation. The player races various characters made of Lego in custom-built go-karts based on the Lego Racers product line in an...

    , a product line (or theme) of the construction toy Lego
  • Line Rider
    Line Rider
    Line Rider is an internet game. Versions are available for Microsoft Silverlight and for Flash. It was originally created in September 2006 by Boštjan Čadež , a Slovenian student...

    , an internet physics toy

Others

  • Legislative route
    Legislative route
    In United States, a legislative route or legislative highway is a highway defined by laws passed in a state legislature. The numbering of such highways may or may not correspond to the numbers familiar to the public as part of the state, U.S. highway, and Interstate highway systems...

    , In United States, a highway defined by laws passed in a state legislature
  • Live rock
    Live rock
    Live rock is rock from the ocean that has been introduced into a saltwater aquarium. Along with live sand, it confers to the closed marine system multiple benefits desired by the saltwater aquarium hobbyist...

    , rock from the ocean that has been introduced into a saltwater aquarium
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