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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The 12th letter of the Roman alphabet
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("L" is a kind of...):
alphabetic character; letter; letter of the alphabet (the conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech)
Holonyms ("L" is a member of...):
Latin alphabet; Roman alphabet (the alphabet evolved by the ancient Romans which serves for writing most of the languages of western Europe)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A metric unit of capacity, formerly defined as the volume of one kilogram of pure water under standard conditions; now equal to 1,000 cubic centimeters (or approximately 1.75 pints)
Synonyms:
cubic decimeter; cubic decimetre; l; liter; litre
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("l" is a kind of...):
metric capacity unit (a capacity unit defined in metric terms)
Meronyms (parts of "l"):
deciliter; decilitre; dl (a metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter)
Holonyms ("l" is a part of...):
dal; decaliter; decalitre; dekaliter; dekalitre; dkl (a metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A cgs unit of illumination equal to the brightness of a perfectly diffusing surface that emits or reflects one lumen per square centimeter
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("L" is a kind of...):
illumination unit (a measure of illumination)
Sense 4
Meaning:
The cardinal number that is the product of ten and five
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("L" is a kind of...):
large integer (an integer equal to or greater than ten)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Being ten more than forty
Synonyms:
50; fifty; l
Classified under:
Similar:
cardinal (being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order)
Context examples:
A la recousse de l'eglise sainte!
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
What she was, must be uncertain; but who she was, might be found out; and setting aside the 10,000 l., it did not appear that she was at all Harriet's superior.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
A copper(l) complex used as an antiinflammatory drug and antiarthritic agent.
(Allocupreide Sodium, NCI Thesaurus)
This bacteria is motile by a single polar flagellum, oxidase and catalase positive, chemoorganotrophic, gelatinase positive and can grow on L tryptophan culture.
(Acidovorax facilis, NCI Thesaurus)
Moreover, the face-color memory effects uncovered in the study appear to be encoded by the L and M cones, the photoreceptors that make trichromatic color vision possible.
(Rosy health and sickly green: color associations play robust role in reading faces, National Institutes of Health)
SDSS J0104+1535 has been classified as an L type ultra-subdwarf using its optical and near-infrared spectrum.
(Astronomers Identify Purest, Most Massive Brown Dwarf, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Gaël Choblet from the University of Nantes in France and co-authors found that a loose, rocky core with 20 to 30 percent empty space would do the trick.
(Powering Saturn's Active Ocean Moon, NASA)
It was certainly some appeal to ‘Elsie.’ In this way I had got my L, S, and I. But what appeal could it be?
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
According to the researchers, this threshold is higher than the standard cutoff for diagnosing folate deficiency (less than 10 nm/L).
(Proper maternal folate level may reduce child obesity risk, NIH)
Belagenpumatucel-L is prepared by transfecting allogeneic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) cells with a plasmid containing a TGF-beta2 antisense transgene, expanding the cells, and then irradiating and freezing them.
(Belagenpumatucel-L, NCI Thesaurus)
