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LARES-2

LARES-2 is a passive, spherical satellite of the Italian Space Agency, covered with laser retroreflectors and launched on 13 July 2022 on the maiden flight of Europe's Vega-C rocket.

Largan Precision

Largan Precision is a Taiwanese maker of precision optical plastic lenses, founded in 1987 and best known as one of the world's largest smartphone camera lens manufacturers.

The Large Area Telescope (LAT) is the primary instrument on NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, a pair-conversion imaging gamma-ray telescope surveying the sky from about 20 MeV to more than 300 GeV since 2008.

Large Binocular Telescope

The Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) is an optical and infrared observatory on Mount Graham, Arizona, whose two 8.4 m mirrors give it the collecting area of an 11.8 m telescope.

Large cardinal

A large cardinal, also called a large cardinal axiom, is an uncountable cardinal so large that its existence is unprovable in ZFC, set theory's standard axioms.

Large cardinal hierarchy

The large cardinal hierarchy orders large-cardinal axioms by consistency strength, usually as a chain of equiconsistencies running from measurable cardinals up to the rank-into-rank axioms, the strongest not known to contradict choice.

Large denominations of United States currency

Large denominations of United States currency are the $500 through $10,000 banknotes, last printed in 1945 and discontinued in 1969, though they remain legal tender and are prized by collectors.

Oct 21, 2026

Large Dih Or Mound

Large dih or mound, a centrally protected ASI archaeological mound at Chhetiaon, Kushinagar district, Uttar Pradesh, Sarnath Circle; measures 1,900' x 900' near Fazilnagar; listed untraceable in 2013 CAG audit.

Large eddy simulation

Large eddy simulation (LES) is a computational technique for turbulent flow that resolves large energy-carrying eddies directly while modeling only the smallest subgrid-scale motions, at a cost between RANS and DNS.

Large Electron–Positron Collider

The Large Electron–Positron Collider (LEP) was a 27-kilometer electron–positron collider at CERN near Geneva, the largest ever built, which operated from 1989 to 2000 and produced 17 million Z bosons before its tunnel hosted the LHC.

Large extra dimensions

Large extra dimensions are spatial dimensions beyond the familiar three, proposed in 1998 by Arkani-Hamed, Dimopoulos, and Dvali, explaining gravity's weakness as dilution into extra-dimensional volume.

Oct 21, 2026

Large Flat Topped Mound of Ruins Called Jharmatiya Or Dharmatiya Cultivated Land

The large flat-topped mound of ruins called Jharmatiya, or Dharmatiya, is a centrally protected archaeological site at Chhetiaon in Kushinagar district, Uttar Pradesh, protected since 1920.

Large flying fox

Large flying fox (Pteropus vampyrus, kalong, Malayan flying fox): a large Southeast Asian fruit bat with a 1.5 m wingspan, roosting in colonies of thousands, foraging up to 50 km nightly, hunted unsustainably in Malaysia, CITES Appendix II, now Endangered.

Large goods vehicle

A large goods vehicle (LGV), known until 1992 as a heavy goods vehicle (HGV), is any UK or European goods-carrying vehicle over 3.5 tonnes maximum authorized mass.

Large Hadron Collider

The Large Hadron Collider is the world's largest particle accelerator, a 27-kilometer ring at CERN near Geneva where protons collide and the Higgs boson was discovered in 2012.

Large Helical Device

The Large Helical Device (LHD; 大型ヘリカル装置) was a superconducting stellarator fusion experiment in Toki, Japan, operating from 1998 to 2025 and achieving plasma temperatures of 120 million degrees.

Large igneous province

A large igneous province (LIP) is a vast accumulation of mostly mafic igneous rock covering over 0.1 million km², emplaced over less than 50 million years.

Large intestine

The large intestine (colon, bowel) is the terminal digestive tract organ, about 5 feet long, comprising cecum, colon, rectum, and anal canal; it absorbs water, electrolytes, and vitamins K and B, forms stool, and houses the gut microbiota.

Large language model

A large language model (LLM) is a neural network with over a billion parameters, trained on large text corpora to generate text and answer questions.

Large low-shear-velocity provinces

Large low-shear-velocity provinces (LLSVPs) are two continent-sized regions of slow seismic waves at the base of Earth's mantle, one beneath Africa and one beneath the Pacific, identified by seismic tomography.

Large Magellanic Cloud

The Large Magellanic Cloud (Nubecula Major) is a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way about 160,000 light-years away and the larger of the two Magellanic Clouds.

Large Magellanic Cloud dark matter wake

A dark matter overdensity trailing the Large Magellanic Cloud through the Milky Way's outer halo, predicted by simulations in 2019 and detected in 2021, with a visible stellar counterpart used to weigh the LMC.

Large Millimeter Telescope

The Large Millimeter Telescope (LMT), known in Mexico as the Gran Telescopio Milimétrico Alfonso Serrano, is a 50-meter radio telescope at 4600 m on Sierra Negra, Puebla, Mexico.

Large N expansion

The large N expansion is a method in theoretical physics, introduced by Gerardus 't Hooft in 1974, solving gauge theories in the limit of infinitely many colors.

Large neighborhood search

Large neighborhood search (LNS) is a metaheuristic for combinatorial optimization that iteratively improves a solution by destroying part of it and repairing it, proposed by Paul Shaw in 1998 for vehicle routing.

Large numbers

Large numbers, or very large numbers, are numbers far beyond everyday counting, conventionally starting around a million, expressed through -illion names, scientific notation, SI prefixes, and googology.

Oct 21, 2026

Large plaque parapsoriasis

Large plaque parapsoriasis (LPP) is a chronic inflammatory skin disease with scaly patches larger than 5 cm that develop over years and carry a risk of progressing to mycosis fungoides.

Large polarons in halide perovskites

Large polarons in halide perovskites are quasiparticles in which an electron or hole moves through the crystal with the polarization cloud it induces in the soft lattice.

Large polarons in hybrid perovskites

Large polarons in hybrid perovskites are charge carriers dressed by a polarization cloud in the soft lattice, explaining long lifetimes and defect tolerance in perovskite devices.