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La Grande 2A hydroelectric plant

La Grande-2-A (LG-2-A) is a reservoir-type hydroelectric station on the Grande Rivière in Quebec, owned by Hydro-Québec and commissioned in 1991–1992 with a 2,106 MW capacity.

La Grande 3 hydroelectric plant

La Grande 3 is a hydroelectric generating station on La Grande Rivière in northern Quebec, commissioned between 1982 and 1984 as part of the James Bay Project.

La Grande 4 hydroelectric plant

La Grande 4 (LG-4) is a hydroelectric generating station on the La Grande Rivière in northern Québec, operated by Hydro-Québec and commissioned between 1984 and 1986.

La Hague reprocessing plant

The La Hague reprocessing plant is a nuclear fuel reprocessing site on the Cotentin peninsula in Normandy, France, where spent fuel from French and foreign reactors is recycled.

La Jument

La Jument (Phare de la Jument) is an active French lighthouse built from 1904 to 1911 off Ouessant in the Iroise Sea, made famous by Jean Guichard's 1989 photograph of a keeper facing a giant wave.

La Laguna-Aguascalientes Gas Pipeline

The La Laguna-Aguascalientes Gas Pipeline (Gasoducto La Laguna-Aguascalientes) is a 453-kilometer, 48-inch natural gas pipeline running from Durango to Aguascalientes, owned by Esentia and operated under a 25-year contract with CFE since 2019.

La Madeleine, Paris

La Madeleine, formally the Église Sainte-Marie-Madeleine, is a Roman Catholic church in neoclassical temple form on the Place de la Madeleine in Paris, consecrated in 1842.

La Mancha Negra

La Mancha Negra (Spanish for "the black stain") was a dark, sticky substance that appeared on Caracas, Venezuela highways in 1986, resisted cleanup, and was never explained.

La Plateforme

La Plateforme was the developer platform of French AI company Mistral AI, offering its generative models as APIs, launched in beta in December 2023 and renamed Mistral AI Studio in 2025.

La Poste (France)

La Poste is France's state-owned national postal operator, with origins in royal courier relays around 1476, that delivers mail and parcels and provides banking through La Banque Postale.

La Querida (mansion)

La Querida, also called Castillo del Mar or La Guerida, is a 1923 Addison Mizner Mediterranean Revival mansion at 1095 N. Ocean Boulevard, Palm Beach, Florida; the Kennedy family's Winter White House, sold in 1995 and again in 2020 for $70 million.

La Rosita power station

La Rosita power station is a natural gas-fired combined-cycle complex near Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico. Operating since 2003, it generates up to 1,233 MW for Baja California and California.

La Temple de la Madeleine, Geneva

Temple de la Madeleine, Geneva: late Gothic Protestant church at Rue de la Madeleine 15, rebuilt from 1388 over a 5th-century memoria, site of Farel's 1535 French sermon, now the Swiss-German Reformed parish church.

LA to Vegas

LA to Vegas is an American sitcom that aired on Fox in 2018, following the crew and passengers of Jackpot Airlines on weekend flights between Los Angeles and Las Vegas.

La Trochita

La Trochita, formally the Viejo Expreso Patagónico (Old Patagonian Express), is a 75 cm gauge heritage steam railway in Argentine Patagonia, now operated by Chubut for tourism.

La Vitoria-Reserva Geothermal Power Station

La Vitoria-Reserva Geothermal Power Station is a geothermal plant in El Salvador whose name no retrieved source confirms; the verified expansion sites are the Chinameca and San Vicente fields.

LAAS-CNRS

LAAS-CNRS, the Laboratory for Analysis and Architecture of Systems, is a large CNRS research unit in Toulouse, founded in 1967, known for robotics and systems research.

Lab-E-Safid Oil Field

Lab-E-Safid Oil Field is an onshore oil field in Khuzestan province, southwestern Iran, producing from the Asmari limestone reservoir since the 1970s and operated by the National Iranian South Oil Company.

Labadee

Labadee, also spelled Labadie, is a private cruise resort on a peninsula on Haiti's northern coast near Cap-Haïtien, leased from the Haitian government by Royal Caribbean since the mid-1980s.

Labadie power station

Labadie power station, also called the Labadie Energy Center, is a coal-fired power plant in Franklin County, Missouri, 35 miles west of St. Louis, and the largest coal-fired plant in Missouri.

Labaganskoye Oil and Gas Field

The Labaganskoye oil and gas field (Лабаганское месторождение) is an oil field in Russia's Nenets Autonomous District, discovered in 1978 and brought into commercial production by Rosneft in 2015.

Labcyte

Labcyte was a San Jose laboratory automation company known for its Echo Liquid Handlers, which transfer nanoliter droplets with sound waves; Beckman Coulter acquired it in 2019.

Label

A label is a piece of material such as paper or plastic carrying information about a product, used to identify contents, carry barcodes, and support branding.

Label design and typography on 78 rpm records

The paper label on a 78 rpm record is the printed center circle carrying trademark, titles, and performers, invented by Eldridge Johnson in the early 1900s.

Label distribution learning

Label distribution learning (LDL) is a machine learning paradigm, proposed by Xin Geng in 2016, that predicts a distribution of description degrees over all labels rather than a single label.

Label Distribution Protocol

The Label Distribution Protocol (LDP) is an IETF protocol, defined in RFC 5036, that distributes MPLS label bindings between routers to establish label-switched paths for hop-by-hop forwarding.

Label propagation algorithm

Label propagation is a graph algorithm in which nodes repeatedly adopt the most common label among their neighbors, used for community detection and semi-supervised classification.

Label smoothing

Label smoothing is a regularization technique for training classifiers, introduced by Christian Szegedy and colleagues in 2016, that replaces hard one-hot labels with soft targets, improving accuracy and model calibration.

Label Studio

Label Studio is an open-source data labeling platform developed by HumanSignal that handles images, video, text, audio, and time series from a single configurable editor, creating annotated training datasets for machine learning.

Label-switched path

A label-switched path (LSP) is the path through label switching routers followed by packets of a forwarding equivalence class in an MPLS network, set up by label distribution.