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3-letter words starting with l

  • lm3 — The Larch interface language for Modula-3.
  • lml — 1. Lazy ML. A lazy, purely functional variant of ML designed by Thomas Johnson and Lennart Augustsson at the Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden in 1984. LML is implemented on the G-machine, and was used to implement the first Haskell B compiler. There is a compiler (lmlc) and interpreter. 2. Logical ML. Adds to Lazy ML a data type of "theories" whose objects represent logic programs.
  • lmo — Labour Market Opinion
  • lms — local management of schools: the system of making each school responsible for controlling its total budget, after the budget has been calculated by the Local Education Authority
  • lmt — Local Mean Time
  • lnf — ["A Fully Lazy Higher Order Purely Functional Programming Language With Reduction Semantics", K.L. Greene, CASE Center TR 8503, Syracuse U 1985].
  • lng — liquefied natural gas
  • loa — A god in the voodoo cult of Haiti.
  • lob — Tennis. to hit (a ball) in a high arc to the back of the opponent's court.
  • loc — lines of code
  • lod — a town in central Israel, southeast of Tel Aviv: Israel's chief airport. Pop: 66 800 (2003 est)
  • lof — Community, tribe: basic social organization of the Mapuche, Huilliche and Picunche peoples, a (familial) clan which recognizes the authority of a lonco.
  • log — Mathematics. logarithm.
  • lol — (Internet slang, text messaging) Alternative form of LOL.
  • lom — (language)   A programming language developed in Toulouse in the early 1980s for data processing.
  • loo — a card game in which forfeits are paid into a pool.
  • lop — to let hang or droop: He lopped his arms at his sides in utter exhaustion.
  • lor — an exclamation of surprise or dismay
  • los — approval
  • lot — lot (def 14).
  • lou — Henry Louis ("Lou") 1903–41, U.S. baseball player.
  • low — to utter by or as by lowing.
  • lox — a clear, pale blue liquid obtained by compressing oxygen and then cooling it below its boiling point: used chiefly as an oxidizer in liquid rocket propellants.
  • loy — a female given name.
  • lpc — (language)   A variant of C designed ca 1988 to program LP MUDs.
  • lpf — League for Programming Freedom
  • lpg — 1. Linguaggio Procedure Grafiche (Italian for "Graphical Procedures Language"). dott. Gabriele Selmi. Roughly a cross between Fortran and APL, with graphical-oriented extensions and several peculiarities. Underlies the products of CAD.LAB Spa. "Graphical Procedure Language User's Guide and Reference Manual", CAD.LAB, Bologna, Italy, 1989, order code GO89/9. 2. Langage de Programmation Generique. An applicative language, both specification and functional. Special emphasis on parametrised declarations. "Design and Implementation of a Generic, Logic and Functional Programming Language", D. Bert et al, ESOP 86, LNCS 213, Springer 1986.
  • lpi — (language)   A PL/I interpreter for IBM PCs and workstations. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
  • lpl — List Programming Language. LISP-like language with ALGOL-like syntax, for IBM 360. "LPL - LISP Programming Language", F.W. Blair et al, RC 3062, IBM TJWRC, Sep 1970.
  • lpm — (unit)   (lpm) A unit used to measure line printer throughput.
  • lpn — An LPN is a nurse who is trained to provide patients with basic care under the supervision of a doctor or a registered nurse. LPN is an abbreviation for 'licensed practical nurse.'
  • lpo — London Philharmonic Orchestra
  • lpr — Line printer. The Unix print command. This does not actually print files but rather copies (or links) them to a spool area from where a daemon copies them to the printer.
  • lps — a phonograph record played at 33 1/3 r.p.m.; long-playing record.
  • lpt — /L-P-T/ or /lip'it/ or /lip-it'/ Line printer. Rare under Unix, more common among hackers who grew up with ITS, MS-DOS, CP/M and other operating systems that were strongly influenced by early DEC conventions.
  • lrc — Longitudinal Redundancy Check
  • lrp — lead replacement petrol
  • lrt — light-rail transit
  • lru — least recently used
  • ls- — landing ship
  • lsb — 1. Least Significant Bit. 2. (Rarely) Least Significant Byte.
  • lsd — drug: lysergic acid diethylamide
  • lse — Language Sensitive Editor
  • lsi — large scale integration
  • lsl — 1. Larch Shared Language. An assertion language. (See Larch). 2. Link and Selector Language. Graphic query language. "LSL: A Link and Selector Language", D.C. Tsichritzis, Proc Intl Conf Management of Data, ACM 1976, pp.123-134.
  • lso — London Symphony Orchestra
  • lsp — label switched path
  • lsr — 1.   (networking)   Label Switching Router. 2.   (operating system)   Local Shared Resources.
  • lsz — limited speed zone
  • lt. — Lieutenant
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