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Loan-to-value ratio
The loan-to-value ratio (LTV) is the loan amount divided by the value of the property securing it, expressed as a percentage; loans above 80% LTV typically require mortgage insurance.
Loanable funds
Loanable funds is a hypothetical economic market in which savers supply funds, borrowers demand them, and the interest rate is the price that equates lending and borrowing.
LoanDepot Park
LoanDepot park, formerly Marlins Park, is the Miami Marlins' retractable-roof MLB ballpark in Little Havana, Miami. Opened 2012, capacity 37,442 (smallest in MLB), renamed March 31, 2021 in a roughly $10 million-a-year naming rights deal.
Loango National Park
Loango National Park is a 1,550 km² protected area on Gabon's Atlantic coast, created in 2002, where rainforest, lagoons, and ocean beach meet in one landscape.
Loans for shares
Loans for shares (залоговые аукционы, collateral auctions) was a 1995 Russian scheme in which favored banks lent the government money against shares in twelve large state companies.
Loanword
A loanword, also called a lexical borrowing, is a word adopted from a donor language into a recipient language through speaker contact and often bilingualism.
Loathe
Loathe are an English experimental heavy metal band from Liverpool, formed in 2014 and signed to SharpTone Records, known for blending metalcore with shoegaze, ambient, and industrial textures.
Loay Alshareef (لؤي الشريف)
Loay Alshareef (لؤي الشريف) is a Saudi-born Muslim linguist, educator, and peace activist based in Abu Dhabi, also called Louay Al Sharif. A Penn State master's graduate and PR company owner, he advocates Muslim-Jewish reconciliation and the Abraham Accords as a self-described Muslim Zionist.
LOB domain-containing protein
LOB domain-containing (LBD/ASL) proteins are plant-specific transcription factors with a ~100 aa LOB domain (CX2CX6CX3C motif, GAS block, leucine zipper); they bind the GCGGCG motif and regulate leaf, root, vascular, and fruit development.
Löb's theorem
Löb's theorem, proved by Martin Löb in 1955, states that if a theory proves that a provable sentence is true, the theory already proves that sentence.
Loba
Loba ("she-wolf") names several Latin American Rummy card games: Argentine Loba de Menos (negative, 108-card deck, 9 cards, piernas and escaleras, elimination at 101) and Loba de Mas (positive), plus a Central American Contract Rummy also called Carioca; distinct from the Apex Legends character Loba.
Lobachevskiy (lunar crater)
Lobachevskiy is an 87.26 km IAU-approved impact crater on the lunar far side at 9.76°N, 113.07°E, named in 1961 for Russian mathematician Nikolay Ivanovich Lobachevsky, with satellite craters M and P.
Lobaplatin
Lobaplatin (D-19466, 注射用洛铂), a third-generation platinum chemotherapy approved in China for CML, metastatic breast cancer, and small cell lung cancer; forms GG/AG intrastrand DNA cross-links; dose-limiting toxicity is thrombocytopenia without nephro-, neuro-, or ototoxicity.
Lobar haemorrhage
Lobar haemorrhage (ICD-11 8B00.1), also called superficial or cortical intracerebral haemorrhage, is bleeding within the cerebral lobes. Main causes are cerebral amyloid angiopathy, hypertension, anticoagulation, malformations, and tumors; larger but better prognosis than deep ICH.
Lobar pneumonia
Lobar pneumonia, also called croupous pneumonia, is pneumonia consolidating a whole lung lobe, classically from Streptococcus pneumoniae, marked by air bronchograms, rusty sputum, and lobar consolidation, distinct from patchy bronchopneumonia.
Lobaria pulmonaria
Lobaria pulmonaria, tree lungwort or lung lichen, is a tripartite foliose lichen (fungus, Dictyochloropsis reticulata, Nostoc) of humid old-growth forests. Secure in North America (G5) but declining in Europe; a bioindicator of clean air and old forest.
Lobate scarps on Mercury
Lobate scarps on Mercury are asymmetric cliffs, tens to hundreds of kilometers long, formed where the cooling planet's crust breaks along thrust faults; the largest, Enterprise Rupes, exceeds 3 km of relief.
Lobbying
Lobbying is organized persuasion of public officials and legislators to influence policy. Covers the US Lobbying Disclosure Act, OECD lobbying registers, foreign-influence transparency laws, and disclosure-compliance figures.
Lobbying in the United States
Lobbying in the United States: paid advocacy to influence federal legislation, regulation, and appointments, regulated through registration and disclosure under FARA 1938, the RLA 1946, the LDA 1995, and HLOGA 2007, with over $4 billion in annual disclosed federal spending.
Lobectomy
A lobectomy is the surgical removal of an entire lobe of an organ, most often the lung, where it is the standard operation for early-stage lung cancer.
Lobeglitazone
Lobeglitazone (CKD-501, Duvie) is a thiazolidinedione PPAR-gamma agonist for type 2 diabetes, developed by Chong Kun Dang, approved in Korea 2013 and India, dosed 0.5 mg daily, with 12-fold higher PPARγ affinity than pioglitazone.
Lobelia
Lobelia, a large cosmopolitan genus of Campanulaceae (lobelias) with about 444 species, two-lipped resupinate flowers, alkaloids such as lobeline, ornamental and medicinal species, and a southern African origin.
Lobengula
Lobengula (c. 1835–1894) was the second and last king of the Ndebele (Matabele) kingdom in Zimbabwe, ruling 1870–1894 from Bulawayo. His 1888 Rudd Concession with Cecil Rhodes's agents was repudiated but underpinned the BSAC's 1893 conquest of his kingdom.
Lobes of the brain
Lobes of the brain: the six conventional divisions of each cerebral hemisphere (frontal, parietal, temporal, occipital, insula, limbic), their sulcal and imaginary-line boundaries, lobe-level functions, and the history and limits of functional localization.
Lobito
Lobito is an Atlantic port city in Benguela Province, Angola, terminus of the 1,344 km Benguela Railway to the DRC and Zambia. Founded as a city in 1912, population 380,689 (2024 census), now the anchor of the Lobito Corridor mineral export route.
Lobito Corridor
The Lobito Corridor links the Atlantic port of Lobito in Angola to the Copperbelt of the DRC and Zambia, chiefly to export copper and cobalt via the Benguela Railway.
Lobito Oil Field
The Lobito Oil Field is a deepwater oil field in Block 14, offshore Angola, discovered in 2000 and operated by Chevron as part of the BBLT development.
Loblaw Companies
Loblaw Companies Limited, Canada's largest food and pharmacy retailer, founded 1919 in Toronto by Theodore Loblaw and incorporated 1956 under George Weston ownership; operates 2,400+ stores including Loblaws, No Frills, and Shoppers Drug Mart with about 28% grocery share.
Loblaws
Loblaws is the flagship supermarket banner of Loblaw Companies Limited, Canada's largest food and pharmacy retailer, founded in Toronto in 1919 by Theodore Pringle Loblaw, controlled by George Weston Limited, with over 2,400 stores and an estimated 28% grocery market share.
Lobo (DC Comics)
Lobo is a fictional antihero in DC Comics: an intergalactic bounty hunter from Czarnia, first appearing in The Omega Men #3 in 1983 and played by Jason Momoa in the 2026 film Supergirl.