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Lodurr (crater on Callisto)
Lodurr is a 72-km-diameter impact crater on Callisto at -50.80°, 270.10°, adopted by the IAU in 1979 and named after the Norse god who gave first humans goodly color.
Loe Shimmy
Loe Shimmy (Shamar Williams Cox, born 1999) is a rapper from Pompano Beach, Florida; albums include Zuper PowerZ, Nardy World, Rockstar Junkie, and Pretty Girlz Run The World, with Drake feature "I'm Spent" reaching No. 34 on the Hot 100.
Loeb Classical Library
Loeb Classical Library: bilingual book series founded by James Loeb in 1911, published by Harvard University Press, pairing Greek and Latin texts with facing English translations; green for Greek, red for Latin; digitized in 2014.
Loeffler endocarditis
Loeffler endocarditis, also called eosinophilic endomyocardial disease, is a rare restrictive cardiomyopathy from eosinophil-mediated heart damage in hypereosinophilic syndrome, progressing through necrotic, thrombotic, and fibrotic stages.
Loena Hendrickx
Loena Hendrickx (born 1999) is a Belgian figure skater, the 2024 European champion who took World silver in 2022 and bronze in 2023, the first Belgian World medalist since 1948.
Loesche
Loesche, founded in Berlin in 1906 and based in Düsseldorf, is a German company that builds vertical roller mills and turnkey grinding plants for cement, coal, and ores.
Loess
Loess (Löss) is wind-deposited silt sediment, typically 60–90% silt-sized, that covers roughly 6.6% of land and forms some of the world's most fertile soils.
Loess Plateau
Loess Plateau (黄土高原, Huangtu Gaoyuan), north-central China's ~640,000 km² wind-deposited silt upland in the Yellow River basin; world's largest loess deposit, once Earth's most eroded region, now restored by the 1999 Grain for Green Program.
Loewe (fashion brand)
Loewe (lo-weh-vay) is a Spanish luxury fashion house founded in Madrid in 1846, known for the Puzzle, Amazona, and Flamenco bags; owned by LVMH since 1996 and led since 2025 by Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez.
Loewner equation
The Loewner equation is a differential equation describing the growth of a slit in a planar domain via conformal maps, introduced by Charles Loewner in 1923.
Loews
Loews Corporation is an American diversified holding company incorporated in 1969, controlled by the Tisch family, whose subsidiaries operate in insurance, pipelines, hotels, and plastic packaging.
Loeys–Dietz syndrome
Loeys–Dietz syndrome (LDS), or Loeys-Dietz aortic aneurysm syndrome, is an autosomal dominant connective tissue disorder caused by TGF-beta pathway gene variants (TGFBR1/2, SMAD2/3, TGFB2/3, IPO8), marked by aggressive aortic and arterial aneurysms, craniofacial and skeletal features, and allergic disease.
LOFAR
LOFAR (LOw Frequency ARray) is a European radio telescope operating at 10 to 240 MHz, the largest of its kind at the lowest observable frequencies.
LOFAR radio air-shower imaging
LOFAR radio air-shower imaging is the detection of extensive air showers from the radio pulses they emit, using the LOFAR radio telescope and its dense antenna core in the Netherlands.
Lofepramine
Lofepramine (Gamanil) is a tricyclic antidepressant, an imipramine analogue metabolized to desipramine, ATC N06AA07, with efficacy comparable to other TCAs, fewer anticholinergic side effects, and relative safety in overdose.
Lofexidine
Lofexidine (Lucemyra) is a central alpha-2 adrenergic agonist, the first FDA-approved non-opioid treatment (May 2018) for mitigating opioid withdrawal symptoms in adults during abrupt opioid discontinuation.
Lofi Girl
Lofi Girl, formerly ChilledCow, is a French YouTube channel and record label founded in 2015, best known for its 24/7 lo-fi hip hop study livestream with an animated girl at her desk.
Lofn (crater on Callisto)
Lofn is a large impact crater on Jupiter's moon Callisto, approved by the IAU in 1997 and named for the Norse goddess of marriage. About 200 km across at 56.5°S, it is among Callisto's youngest large impact features, possibly penetrating ductile ice or liquid water.
Lofn/Langemann
Lofn and Langemann are two adjacent gas and condensate discoveries made in 2025 in the Sleipner area of the Norwegian North Sea by Equinor and Aker BP.
Lofoten
Lofoten is a roughly 200 km island chain in Nordland, Norway, above the Arctic Circle, famed for the winter skrei (Northeast Arctic cod) fishery, stockfish trade, medieval Vágar, the Borg Viking longhouse, and dramatic alpine scenery.
Lofsöngur
Lofsöngur, also known as "Ó Guð vors lands" (O, God of Our Land), is the national anthem of Iceland, written by Matthías Jochumsson and Sveinbjörn Sveinbjörnsson.
Loft
A loft is a large, open-plan dwelling made by converting a former industrial or commercial building into housing, with high ceilings, large windows, and few internal partitions.
Loft Orbital
Loft Orbital, formally Loft Orbital Solutions Inc., is a San Francisco space company founded in 2017 that provides satellite-as-a-service, buying standard satellites and operating customer payloads in orbit.
Loftus Road
Loftus Road, briefly Kiyan Prince Foundation Stadium (2019-2022), is QPR's 18,439-seat home ground in Shepherd's Bush, London, opened 1904, occupied by QPR since 1917, record crowd 35,353 in 1974.
Lofty Mound With A Small Village Perched on the East Northeastern Side of It.
Lofty Mound With A Small Village Perched on the East Northeastern Side of It. is the official name of the Indor Khera archaeological mound in Bulandshahr, Uttar Pradesh.
Lofty Mount Lu
Lofty Mount Lu (Lushan gao tu) is a large 1467 hanging scroll by the Ming painter Shen Zhou, a birthday tribute to his teacher Chen Kuan held in Taipei.
Log
A log, or logarithm, is the exponent a fixed base must be raised to produce a number, turning multiplication into addition; Napier published it in 1614.
Log cabin
A log cabin is a small dwelling of horizontally stacked logs joined at notched corners, needing no nails, introduced to America by Finnish and Swedish settlers in 1638.
Log Cabin Republicans
Log Cabin Republicans: organization of LGBT conservatives and allies within the U.S. Republican Party, founded in 1970s California against the Briggs Initiative, named for Lincoln, headquartered in Washington, D.C.
Log compaction
Log compaction: Kafka's per-key retention that keeps at least the latest value for each message key in a topic partition, with tombstone deletion, immutable offsets, and a background log cleaner, unlike time- or size-based retention.