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Lloyd's Register

Lloyd's Register, also known as Lloyd's Register of Shipping, is the world's first ship classification society, founded in London in 1760 at Edward Lloyd's coffee house.

The Lloydminster upgrader, commissioned in 1992 as the Bi-Provincial Upgrader, is a heavy oil facility in Saskatchewan, owned by Cenovus Energy, that converts heavy crude into synthetic crude oil and diesel.

Lloyds Bank

Lloyds Bank, formerly Lloyds TSB, is a British retail and commercial bank, the principal brand of Lloyds Banking Group, serving about 28 million customers through Halifax and Bank of Scotland.

Lloyds Banking Group

Lloyds Banking Group plc, formerly Lloyds TSB Group, is a British retail and commercial banking group formed in 2009 when Lloyds TSB acquired HBOS during the financial crisis.

Llr Equity Partners

LLR Partners, which files funds as LLR Equity Partners, is a Philadelphia growth private equity firm founded in 1999 investing in software and tech-enabled companies.

Lluc Castell

Lluc Castell Solé (born 2006, Barcelona) is a Spanish forward who played for Espanyol B, debuted in La Liga in 2025-26, and joined Burnley in July 2026 for about 2 million euros.

Lluís Companys

Lluís Companys i Jover (1882–1940), Catalan lawyer and politician, co-founder of ERC and second president of the restored Generalitat (from 1 January 1934); proclaimed the Catalan State on 6 October 1934, exiled 1939, executed by firing squad at Montjuïc on 15 October 1940.

Sep 21, 2026

Lluís Quintana‐Murci

Lluís Quintana-Murci, born 1970 in Palma de Mallorca, is a Spanish-born French population geneticist who leads the Human Evolutionary Genetics unit at the Institut Pasteur.

Sep 21, 2026

Lluís Torner

Lluís Torner (born 1961) is a Catalan physicist in optics and photonics who founded and directed the Institute of Photonic Sciences in Barcelona from 2002.

Sep 21, 2026

Lluı́s Ribas de Pouplana

Lluís Ribas de Pouplana is a Catalan molecular biologist who studies transfer RNA and the genetic code, heading the Gene Translation Laboratory at IRB Barcelona since 2003.

Llullaillaco

Llullaillaco, a 6,739 m stratovolcano on the Chile-Argentina border, is the world's highest historically active volcano (last eruption 1877), second-highest active volcano, site of an Inca summit sanctuary with preserved child mummies, and home to the highest-dwelling mammal.

LLVM

LLVM, originally an abbreviation of Low Level Virtual Machine, is a compiler infrastructure centered on its intermediate representation, described by Chris Lattner and Vikram Adve in 2003.

LLVM IR

LLVM IR is the typed, SSA-based intermediate representation of the LLVM compiler infrastructure, serving as the common code form across all compilation phases, from frontends through optimization to code generation.

Llyn Celyn

Llyn Celyn, also known as Tryweryn Reservoir, is a reservoir in Gwynedd, Wales, built by Liverpool between 1960 and 1965, flooding the village of Capel Celyn.

Llywelyn ap Gruffudd

Llywelyn ap Gruffudd (Llywelyn the Last, c.1225-1282), last native Prince of Wales of Gwynedd, grandson of Llywelyn the Great; won recognition from Henry III by the Treaty of Montgomery in 1267, defeated by Edward I in 1277, killed 11 December 1282.

LM Ericsson 500-point switch

The LM Ericsson 500-point switch (Swedish: 500-väljaren) was an electromechanical telephone selector developed by LM Ericsson in Sweden, connecting up to 500 subscriber lines per switch.

LM Evaluation Harness

The LM Evaluation Harness (lm-eval) is an open-source Python framework by EleutherAI that runs language models on over 60 academic benchmarks, serving as the backend for Hugging Face's Open LLM Leaderboard.

LM GTE

LM GTE (Le Mans Grand Touring Endurance) was the FIA/ACO production-based GT class in the WEC and Le Mans from 2011, split into Pro and Am, with Ferrari, Porsche, Aston Martin, Corvette and BMW entries, replaced by LMGT3 in 2024.

LM Studio

LM Studio is a desktop application for discovering, downloading, and running large language models locally, developed by Element Labs of New York and first released in 2023.

LM Wind Power

LM Wind Power is a Danish company in Kolding that designs and makes rotor blades for onshore and offshore wind turbines, and has delivered over 275,000 blades since 1978.

LM-299

LM-299, known as MK-2010, is an investigational bispecific antibody targeting PD-1 and VEGF, developed by Shanghai's LaNova Medicines and licensed to Merck for $588 million upfront in 2024.

LM-305 (GPRC5D ADC)

LM-305 (AZD0305) is LaNova Medicines' anti-GPRC5D antibody-drug conjugate with an MMAE payload for multiple myeloma; NMPA IND approved November 2022, phase 1/2 trial NCT05647512, exclusively licensed to AstraZeneca in May 2023 for up to $600 million.

Sep 19, 2026

LM.C

LM.C, short for Lovely-Mocochang.com, is a Japanese visual kei rock duo of vocalist maya and guitarist Aiji, whose single "88" reached number 3 on Oricon in 2008.

LM5 (album)

LM5 is the fifth studio album by British girl group Little Mix, released 16 November 2018 on Syco/Columbia. Known for feminist themes, the Nicki Minaj single Woman Like Me, a UK Number 3 peak, and the group's split from Syco days before release.

LM6000

The LM6000 is a 40–60 MW aeroderivative gas turbine General Electric derived from the CF6-80C2 turbofan, introduced in 1992 for power generation and mechanical drive.

LM700 (satellite bus)

The LM700 is a three-axis stabilized satellite bus developed by Lockheed Martin for the 66-satellite Iridium communications constellation, later modified as the LM700B for scientific missions.

LMAN1

LMAN1 (ERGIC-53), lectin mannose-binding 1, is a 53 kDa hexameric transmembrane L-type lectin cargo receptor on chromosome 18 that, with MCFD2, transports FV, FVIII, and AAT from ER to Golgi; mutations cause F5F8D bleeding disorder.

LMArena

LMArena, formerly Chatbot Arena and now branded Arena, is a crowdsourced platform for evaluating large language models. Users vote between anonymous model responses to build a public leaderboard launched in May 2023 by UC Berkeley researchers.

LMC X-1

LMC X-1 is a persistent black hole X-ray binary in the Large Magellanic Cloud and the first extragalactic black hole binary discovered, one of the galaxy's brightest X-ray sources.