L Details, Meaning L Article and Explanation Guide

L Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description

L is the twelfth letter of the Latin alphabet.

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The letter L is derived ultimately from the Semitic Lamed which stood for the phonetic value /l/ as did the Greek letter Lambda Λ (upper case) or λ (lower case), as well as the equivalent Etruscan and Latin letters. In reference, it is spelled el or ell.

Lima represents the letter L in the NATO phonetic alphabet.

In international Morse code the letter L is DitDahDitDit: · - · ·

In Braille the letter L is represented as ⠇ (in Unicode), the dot pattern,

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In Unicode the capital L is codepoint U+004C and the lowercase l is U+006C.

The ASCII code for capital L is 76 and for lowercase l is 108; or in binary 01001100 and 01101100, correspondingly.

The EBCDIC code for capital L is 211 and for lowercase l is 147.

The numeric character references in HTML and XML are "L" and "l" for upper and lower case respectively.

In biochemistry, L is the symbol for leucine.
In electrical engineering, L is often the variable for inductance.
In financial securities, L is the stock symbol for Liberty Media Corporation A
In industry, L often denotes "large size".
In international licence plate codes, L stands for Luxembourg.
In navigation, L denotes the relative direction "left"; see left and right.
In Roman numerals, L denotes the number fifty.
The lowercase l is sometimes used in place of the number 1 in typewritten text. Some typewriters did not even have a key for the numeral, so a number of people have retained the habit even in the computer age.
In the Metric system, l or L is symbol for litre or liter, the SI base unit for volume.
In video games, L is the abbreviation for Luigi, a Nintendo character.
When affixed to the back of a car, L often means learner.
The city of Chicago, Illinois has an elevated train called the L.
In taxonomy, L. is the standard attribution for Carolus Linnaeus, as in Blue Tit, Parus caeruleus, L. 1758.