| L |
Explanation |
Location/Reference/Context as appropriate |
| LA | lactide | |
| LAC | Linoleic ACid | |
| LAC | Looked After Child | |
| LADO | Local Authority Designated Officer |
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| LAFP | Laser-Assisted Fibre Placement | |
| LAG |
Liquids, Aerosols and Gels |
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| LAGA |
Lesser Atomised Gelcoat Application |
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| LAM |
Laser Additive Manufacture |
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| LAMMA |
Laser Microprobe Mass Analysis |
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| LaMPBF |
Laser Metal Powder Bed Fusion |
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| LANCA |
Lightweight Affordable Novel Combat Aircraft |
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| LAOA | Large Amplitude Oscillatory Axial loading | |
| LAOS | Large Amplitude Oscillating Shear | |
| LARAC | Local Authority Recycling Advisory Committee | |
| LaRC |
NASA Langley Research Centre |
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| LARS |
Local Acoustic Resonance Spectroscopy |
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| LAS |
Lithium Aluminium Sulphate |
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| LASE |
Load At Specified Elongation |
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| LASER |
Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation |
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| LASLAT |
LArge Standoff, Large Area Thermography |
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| LASS |
Lightweight construction applications at sea |
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| LASSO |
Least Absolute Shrinkage and Selection Operator |
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| LAsST |
Laser Arrays Scan Thermography |
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| LATP |
Laser-Assisted Tape Placement |
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| LATW |
Laser-Assisted Tape Welding |
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| LAWS |
Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems |
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| LB |
Lower Bound |
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| LBI |
Laser Bond Interferometry |
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| LbL |
Layer By Layer curing |
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| LBW |
Laser Beam Welding |
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| LCA |
Life Cycle Assessment |
ISO14040:2006(E). Practitioners avoid using Life Cycle Analysis |
| LCARSIN |
Life Cycle Assessment Regulatory Science and Innovation Network | Henry Royce Institute |
| LCBS |
Large-scale Composite Bumper System |
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| LCC |
Life Cycle Costing |
ISO14040:2006(E) |
| LCCA |
Life Cycle Cost Assessment |
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| LCCO2A |
Life Cycle Carbon (Dioxide) Emissions Assessment |
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| LCD |
Liquid Crystal Display |
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| LCDN |
Life Cycle Data Network | |
| LCE |
Levelised Cost of Energy per megawatt hour |
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| LCE |
Liquid Crystalline Elastomer |
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| LCEA |
Life Cycle Energy Assessment |
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| LCF |
Large Cargo Freighter |
Boeing 747-400 adapted to carry B787 sub-assemblies |
| LCF |
Low Cycle Fatigue |
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| LCI |
Life Cycle Inventory Analysis |
ISO14040:2006(E) |
| LCIA |
Life Cycle Impact Assessment |
ISO14040:2006(E) |
| LCM |
Laminated Composite Materials |
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| LCM |
Life Cycle Management |
ISO14040:2006(E) |
| LCM |
Liquid Composite Moulding |
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| LCM2 |
Low-cost Composite Manufacturing by Liquid Composite Moulding |
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| LCN |
Leucaena collinsii |
fibres from prunings as reinforcements |
| LCOE |
Levelised Cost Of Energy |
see also SCOE (Social Cost Of Electricity) |
| LCR |
Lineal Crystal growth Rate |
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| LCRI |
Low Carbon Research Institute |
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| LCSA |
Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment(s) |
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| LCSRG |
Lightweight and Composite Structures Research Group |
University of Southampton |
| LCST |
Lower Critical Solution Temperatures |
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| LCT |
Low Carbon Technology |
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| LCTC |
Low-Cost Tooling for Composites |
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| LCV |
Low Carbon Vehicle |
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| LCZ |
Local Cohesive Zone |
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| LDC |
Inductance-to-Digital Converter | |
| LDF |
Large Deformation Formula |
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| LDF |
Long Discontinuous Fibres |
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| LDH |
Layered Double Hydroxides |
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| LDI(C) |
Lysine-based DiIsoCyanate |
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| LDPE |
Low Density PolyEthylene |
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| LDR |
Lift-to-Drag Ratio |
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| LDR |
Limiting Draw Ratio |
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| LDR |
Local defect resonance |
Thermosonic and non-linear ultrasonic NDT |
| LDS |
Laser Diffraction System |
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| LDV |
Laser Doppler Vibrometry |
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| LEA |
Laser Excited Acoustics | |
| LEAF |
tooL for Eco-designing AirFrame |
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| LEAP |
Leading Edge Aviation Propulsion |
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| LEAPS |
League of European Accelerator-based Photon Sources |
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| LEAR |
Legal Entity Appointed Representative |
European Commission Research and Innovation |
| LED |
Light Emitting Diode |
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| LEED |
Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design |
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| LEFM |
Linear Elastic Fracture Mechanics |
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| LEIT |
Leadership in Enabling and Industrial Technologies |
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| LEL |
Light Extraction Layer |
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| LENR |
Liquid Epoxidised Natural Rubber |
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| LEO |
Low Earth Orbit | |
| LEP |
Leading Edge Protection |
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| LEP |
Local Enterprise Partnerships |
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| LERU |
League of European Research Universities |
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| LES |
Large Eddy Simulation |
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| LESA |
Low Energy Adhesive Substrate |
Dow BetamateTM Structural Adhesives |
| LEV |
Local Exhaust Ventilation | |
| LF |
Low Free (LF) isocyanate urethane prepolymers |
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| LFA |
Laser (Thermal) Flash Analysis |
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| LFAD | Lateral Fibril Aggregate Dimmension | |
| LFAM |
Large Format Additive Manufacturing | |
| LFCG |
Lifetime Fatigue Crack Growth |
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| LFD | Lateral Fibril Dimmension | |
| LFHE |
Leadership Foundation for Higher Education |
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| LFRTP |
Long Fibre Reinforced Thermoplastics |
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| LFRWLC |
Low Frame Rate White Light Cameras |
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| LFT |
Long Fibre reinforced Thermoplastics |
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| LFT |
Lateral Flow Test |
Covid-19 diagnostics |
| LFT-D |
Long Fibre reinforced Thermoplastics - Direct |
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| LFT-P |
Long Fibre reinforced Thermoplastics - Pellet |
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| LFW | Linear Friction Welding | |
| LGBTI |
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trasgender, Intersex people |
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| LGC |
Laboratory of the Government Chemist |
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| LGD |
Local Growth Deal |
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| LGP |
Light Guide Plate printing |
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| LGPP |
Long Glass Polypropylene |
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| LH |
Leonardo Helicopters |
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| LHM |
Left-Handed Materials (μ=0, ε=0) |
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| LHUK |
Leonardo Helicopters United Kingdom |
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| LIB |
Lithium Ion Battery |
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| LIBS |
Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy | |
| LIBRE |
Lignin based carbon fibre for composites |
University of Limerick Bernal Institute |
| LIDIC |
Lock-In Digital Image Correlation |
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| LiFi |
Light Fidelity |
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| LIFT |
Long Island Forum for Technology Composite Prototyping Center |
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| LIMESnet |
Low Impact Materials and innovative Engineering Solutions research Network | |
| LIMM |
Laser Intensity Modulation Method |
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| LIMS |
Laboratory Information Management Systems |
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| LIMS |
Liquid Injection Moulding Simulation |
University of Delaware software |
| LINK |
LINK Collaborative Research |
Government Office of Science and Technology |
| LiP |
Lignin Peroxidases |
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| LIPS |
Laser-Induced Plasma Spectroscopy |
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| LIST |
Luxembourg Institute for Science and Technology |
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| LITA |
Localised In-plane Thermal Assist | |
| LITAC | Leeds Institute of Textile and Colour | |
| LIV | Log ion viscosity |
Measure of the progress of cure |
| LL | Lower Limit | |
| LLC | Limit Load Capability | |
| LLDPE | Linear Low Density Poly Ethylene | |
| LLE | Lifelong Learning (Loan) Entitlement | |
| LLR | Limit Load Requirement | |
| LLS | Local Load Sharing | |
| LM | Light Microscopy | |
| LMA | Lauryl MethAcrylate | |
| LMA | Levenberg–Marquardt algorithm | |
| LMAIS | Liquid Metal Alloy Ion Sources | |
| LMD | Laser Melt Deposition | |
| LMD-W | Laser Melt Deposition with Wire | |
| LMI | Lead Markets Initiative | |
| LMIS | Liquid Metal Ion Sources | |
| LMM |
Lifetime Management of Materials |
National Physical Laboratory |
| LMPAEK |
Lower Melting temperature Poly Aryl Ether Ketone |
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| LMPBF |
Laser Metal Powder Bed Fusion |
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| LMSVM |
Layered Multi-class Support Vector Machines |
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| LMT |
Liquid Moulding Technologies |
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| LNG |
Liquid Natural Gas |
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| LNRS |
Local Nature Recovery Strategies |
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| LO |
Low Observable |
i.e. stealth |
| LOA |
Low Observable Aircraft |
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| LOBOLA |
LOwer BOund Limit Analysis |
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| LoC |
Lab-on-a-Chip |
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| LOC |
Loss of Containment |
gas, petroleum or nuclear |
| LOCOMACHS |
LOw COst Manufacturing and Assembly of Composite and Hybrid Structures |
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| LOD |
Laser Object Detection |
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| LOI |
Limiting Oxygen Index |
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| LoL | Laughing out Loud | |
| LoL | Limit of Liability | |
| LOM |
Laminated Object Manufacturing |
Rapid Prototyping technique |
| LOM |
Linseed Oil Monoglycerides |
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| LoRaWAN |
Long Range Wide Area Network |
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| LoRI |
Lens on Research and Innovation |
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| LOTIS |
Low Temperature Ion Sources |
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| LoT-NET |
Low Temperature Heat Recovery and Distribution Network Technologies |
EPSRC EP/R045496/1 |
| LOW |
Liquid Organic Waste | |
| LP |
Lamination Parameters |
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| LP |
Low Pressure |
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| LPA |
Large Passenger Aircraft |
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| LPA |
Low Profile Additives |
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| LPFB | Laser Powder-Bed Fusion | |
| LPG |
Liquefied Petroleum Gas | |
| LPG |
Long Period Grating | |
| LPGFS |
Long Period Grating Fibre Sensor | |
| LPO |
Lauroyl PerOxide | |
| LPPM |
Low Pressure Press Moulding | |
| LPRIM |
Low Pressure Resin Infusion Moulding | |
| LPWAN |
LoRa Low Power Wide Area Network | |
| LPT |
Laboratory of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Hamburg |
expected to close 29February 2020. |
| LPT |
Low Pressure Turbine |
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| LQG |
Linear Quadratic Gaussian |
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| LREC |
Local Research Ethics Committee |
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| LRFD |
Load and Resistance Factor Design |
ASCE pre-standard (2011) |
| LRI |
Liquid Resin Infusion |
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| LROM |
Linear Rule Of Mixtures |
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| LRS |
Large-Rupture-Strain | |
| LRS |
Liquid Resin Spray process |
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| LRTM |
Light Resin Transfer Molding |
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| LRUT |
Long Range Ultrasonic Testing |
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| LSA |
Light Sport Aircraft |
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| LSA |
Low Solar Absorbance |
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| LSAM |
Large Scale Additive Manufacturing |
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| LSCC |
Large Structures Composites Centre |
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| LSF |
Least Squares Fit |
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| LSF |
Level Set Function |
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| LSI |
Large Scale Integrated circuits |
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| LSIP |
Local Skills Improvement Plan |
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| LSL |
Lower Specification Limit |
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| LSM |
Laser Scanning Microscopy |
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| LSM |
Light-Sheet Microscopy |
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| LSMS |
Laboratory for Smart Materials and Structures (University of Sydney) |
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| LSP |
Laser Shock Peening |
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| LSP |
Lightning Strike Protection |
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| LSRI |
Large Scale Resin Infusion |
Composites Integation at National Composites Centre |
| LSRI |
Liquid Silicone Rubber |
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| LSSVM |
Least-Squares Support Vector Machine |
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| LST |
Land Surface Temperature |
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| LST |
Line Scanning Thermography |
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| LSTC |
Livermore Softwate Technology Corporation | |
| LSTM |
Long Short-Term Memory | |
| LSW |
Learning Support and Wellbeing |
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| LSZ |
Limited Sampling Zone |
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| LT |
Leak Testing |
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| LT |
Lock-in Thermography |
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| LTC |
Light Tow Cable (EOMIC-TAS) |
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| LTE |
Life Time Extension |
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| LTH |
Long Term Health condition | |
| LTPS |
Low-Temperature Polycrystalline Silicon |
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| LTR |
Laser-induced Thermal-wave radar |
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| LTR |
Loop Transfer Recovery |
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| LUC |
Land Use Changes |
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| LUCIA |
Last Universal Common Insect Ancestor | |
| LUGW |
Laser-induced Ultrasonic Guided Wave | |
| LUL |
London Underground Limited |
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| LULUCF |
Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry |
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| LUNZ |
Land Use for Net Zero | |
| LURU |
Longer in Use and ReUse | |
| LUT |
Laser Ultrasonic Testing | |
| LUVT |
Laser Ultrasonic Visualisation Testing | |
| LVDT |
Linear Variable Displacement Transducer |
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| LVDT |
Low Voltage Differential Transformer |
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| LVI |
Low-Velocity Impact |
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| LVL |
Laminated Veneer Lumber |
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| LVQ |
Learning Vector Quantisation |
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| LVV |
Montanuniversitaet Loeben Chair in Processing of Composites |
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| LW |
Liquified Wood |
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| LWAC |
LightWeight Aggregate Concrete |
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| LWFA |
Laser Wake Field Accelerator (for THz generation) |
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| LWN |
Low Wave Number |
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| LWRT |
LightWeight Reinforced Thermoplastic composites |
Quadrant Plastic Composites |
| LWST |
Low Wind Speed Technology |
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| LWWAA |
Light Weight Wide Aperture Array |
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| LX |
Lightweighting eXcellence |
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| LYC |
Large Yacht Code |
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