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Large quasar group
A large quasar group is a grouping of quasars closely matched in redshift and position, implying a larger dimmer structure; the Huge-LQG was the largest known structure in 2013.
Large Rectangular Shaped Mound
Large Rectangular Shaped Mound, Bairant, Chandauli district, Uttar Pradesh: an ASI centrally protected ancient mound (800' x 600') on the Ban Ganga bank, part of the fortified Bairant city site, notified 1920, distinct from Bairat in Rajasthan.
Large ribosomal subunit protein mL49
Large ribosomal subunit protein mL49 (MRPL49, NOF, L49mt) is a 166-aa human protein of the 39S mitochondrial ribosome large subunit, one of seven mitochondria-specific mL proteins; bi-allelic loss causes combined oxidative phosphorylation deficiency 60.
Large ribosomal subunit protein mL67
mL67, or Mhr1 (MHR1, YDR296W, XTC1), is a mitochondria-specific large ribosomal subunit protein of yeast that doubles as a mitochondrial recombinase mediating mtDNA recombination, repair, replication, and exit-tunnel remodeling.
Large ribosomal subunit protein uL5, bacteria
uL5 (rplE, 50S ribosomal protein L5) is a universal bacterial large-subunit ribosomal protein: it binds 5S rRNA in the central protuberance, forms bridge B1b with uS13, contacts P-site tRNA, and is required for 50S assembly.
Large Scale Solar 5 (Malaysia)
Large Scale Solar 5 (LSS5), formally LSS PETRA, is the fifth competitive bidding round for utility-scale solar plants in Peninsular Malaysia, launched in 2024 with a 2,000 MW quota.
Large Scale Solar 6 (Malaysia)
Large Scale Solar 6 (LSS6) is Malaysia's sixth competitive solar bidding round, announced in 2026, offering 2,650 MW of solar capacity, half paired with battery storage.
Large sieve
The large sieve is a method in analytic number theory, introduced by Yuri Linnik in 1941, that controls a sequence of numbers simultaneously modulo many small moduli.
Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope
The Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST), also called the Guoshoujing Telescope, is a Chinese telescope that takes spectra of 4,000 objects at once.
Large Stone Structure
The Large Stone Structure is a set of massive stone walls in the City of David, Jerusalem, excavated by Eilat Mazar in 2005 and dated to about 1000 BCE.
Large Temple at Sikait
Large Temple at Sikait: Roman-period hemispeos rock-cut temple in talc schist at Sikait (ancient Senskis), Egypt's Mons Smaragdus emerald-mining district; three rooms, two columns, Greek facade inscription, in use 1st-7th century AD, structurally unstable since construction.
Large Theater
Large Theater (Teatro Grande), Pompeii's main ancient Roman theater in Regio VIII, built mid-2nd century BC on a hillside, enlarged to about 5,000 seats, renovated by the Holconii, still used for performances.
Large Unmanned Undersea Vehicle program
The Large Unmanned Undersea Vehicle program, or Orca program, is a United States Navy effort to build extra-large autonomous submarines, built by Boeing since 2019.
Large woody debris
Large woody debris (LWD), now often called large wood, is logs, root wads, and branches in stream channels large enough to resist immediate transport by the flow.
Large-area single-crystal graphene growth
Large-area single-crystal graphene growth is the synthesis of boundary-free graphene films, most often by chemical vapor deposition on copper, aiming at wafer-scale films with electronic quality matching exfoliated graphene.
Large-calibre artillery
Large-caliber artillery, also known as large-caliber gun, is tube artillery with a wide bore that fires heavy explosive shells indirectly over long ranges, standardized at 155 mm in NATO and 152 mm in former-Soviet systems.
Large-conductance mechanosensitive channel
MscL, the large-conductance mechanosensitive channel, is a bacterial homopentameric tension-gated pore (~3 nS, nonselective) acting as an emergency release valve against osmotic lysis; cloned from E. coli in 1994, distinct from MscS.
Large-format camera
A large-format camera is a camera that exposes individual film sheets larger than medium format, most commonly 4×5 and 8×10 inches, usually a bellows-equipped view camera.
Large-format photography
Large-format photography uses big sheets of film, usually 4x5 or 8x10 inch, exposed in a view camera whose lens and film standards can tilt and shift.
Large-mode-area fiber
Large-mode-area (LMA) fiber is an optical fiber whose fundamental mode occupies a much larger effective area, raising nonlinear thresholds to let fiber lasers operate at far higher power.
Large-scale structure of the universe
The large-scale structure of the universe, known as the cosmic web, is the pattern in which galaxies cluster along filaments and sheets surrounding vast voids.
Large/giant congenital melanocytic nevus
Large/giant congenital melanocytic nevus: a birth-present pigmented melanocyte lesion projected to reach 20 cm or more, caused by somatic NRAS/BRAF mutations, occurring in about 1 in 20,000 births, with 5-10% lifetime melanoma risk and 10-33% risk of neurocutaneous melanocytosis.
Largemouth bass
Largemouth bass (Micropterus nigricans, formerly M. salmoides) is a large North American freshwater sunfish and premier sport fish; up to 38.2 inches and 22 pounds, nest-building spring spawner, widely stocked and invasive outside its native range.
Larger Leiden Plates
The Larger Leiden Plates (लेडेन ताम्रपत्र) are an 11th-century Chola copper-plate charter recording Rajaraja I's grant of Anaimangalam village revenues to the Buddhist Chudamani vihara at Nagapattinam.
Largest airlines in the world
The largest airlines in the world are ranked by passengers, capacity, fleet, or revenue; in 2024 American Airlines led in passengers and Delta in revenue.
Largest and heaviest animals
The largest and heaviest animal ever known is the blue whale, reaching up to 110 feet and 330,000 pounds; on land, Jurassic sauropod dinosaurs were the heaviest ever.
Largest artificial non-nuclear explosions
The largest artificial non-nuclear explosions are the biggest man-made blasts from chemical explosives, both deliberate tests like Minor Scale in 1985 and accidents like Halifax in 1917 and Beirut in 2020, measured in TNT equivalent.
Largest body part
The largest body part of an organism depends on the measure: human skin is the largest organ, while whale tongues and elephant trunks are the largest in animals.
Largest Contentful Paint
Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) is a web performance metric measuring the render time of the largest visible image, text block, or video in the viewport.
Largest gold companies
Largest gold companies: Newmont, Barrick Mining, Agnico Eagle, and state-owned Navoi MMC lead 2025 gold production by attributable ounces; ranked by output, AISC costs, reserves, and M&A-driven consolidation.