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LA most frequently refers to Los Angeles, the second largest city in the United States. La, LA, or L.A. may also refer to:


Arts and entertainment


Music

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La (musical note) A or La is the sixth Musical note, note and the tenth semitone of the Solfège#Fixed do solfège, fixed-do solfège. Its enharmonic equivalents are B (B double flat) which is a diatonic semitone above A and G (G double sharp) which is a diatoni ...
, or A, the sixth note * "L.A.", a song by Elliott Smith on ''Figure 8'' (album) * ''L.A.'' (EP), by Teddy Thompson * ''
L.A. (Light Album) ''L.A. (Light Album)'' is the 23rd studio album by the American rock band the Beach Boys, released on March 16, 1979, and their first issued through CBS Records. Recorded during a period of acrimony between the band members, it was a critical an ...
'', a Beach Boys album * "L.A." (Neil Young song), 1973 *
The La's The La's were an English rock band from Liverpool, originally active from 1983 until 1992. Fronted by singer, songwriter and guitarist Lee Mavers, the group are best known for their hit single " There She Goes". The band was formed by Mike Badge ...
, an English rock band *
L.A. Reid Antonio Marquis "L.A." Reid (born June 7, 1956) is an American record executive, A&R representative, and record producer. He is the founder and served as co-chairman of Hitco Entertainment. He also previously served as the chairman and CEO of Ep ...
, a prominent music producer *
Yung L.A. Leland Sanford Austin (born March 26, 1986), better known by his stage name Yung L.A. or Da Boi Lay, is an American Hip hop music, hip hop recording artist from Atlanta, Georgia. He is perhaps best known for his debut single "Ain't I", which pea ...
, a rapper *
Lady A Lady A (formerly known as Lady Antebellum) is an American country music group formed in Nashville, Tennessee, in 2006. The group is composed of Hillary Scott (lead and background vocals), Charles Kelley (lead and background vocals, guitar), ...
, an American country music trio * "L.A." (Amy Macdonald song), 2007 * "La", a song by Australian-Israeli singer-songwriter Old Man River


Other media

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l(a "l(a" is a poem by E. E. Cummings. It is the first poem in his 1958 collection '' 95 Poems''. "l(a" is arranged vertically in groups of one to five letters. When the text is laid out horizontally, it either reads as ''l(a leaf falls)oneliness'' ...
, a poem by E. E. Cummings *
La (Tarzan) La is a character in Edgar Rice Burroughs's series of Tarzan novels, the queen and high priestess of Opar, a lost city in the jungles of Africa. Opar is portrayed as a surviving colony of ancient Atlantis in which incredible riches have been s ...
, fictional queen of the lost city of Opar (Tarzan) * ''
''Lá'' (Irish for "Day"; later known as ''Lá Nua'', Irish for "New Day") was an Irish-language daily newspaper based in Belfast. It was the first daily newspaper in Ireland to be published in Irish. ''Lá Nua'' belonged to the Belfast Media Gr ...
'', later known as Lá Nua, an Irish language newspaper *
La7 La7 is an Italian free-to-air television channel owned by Cairo Communication. Until 2013 it was a pay-per-view channel owned by Telecom Italia Media and operated by Telecom Italia. Signal overspill means that parts of Albania, Croatia, Swi ...
, an Italian television channel *
LucasArts Lucasfilm Games (known as LucasArts between 1990 and 2021) is an American video game brand licensing, licensor that is part of Lucasfilm. It was founded in May 1982 by George Lucas as a video game development group alongside his film company; as ...
, an American video game developer and publisher *
Liber Annuus ''Liber Annuus'' is a yearly academic journal of theology and Biblical archaeology published by Studium Biblicum Franciscanum in Jerusalem Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and c ...
, academic journal


Business, organizations, and government agencies

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L.A. Screenings The L.A. Screenings is an international television (TV) market that developed independently. Over the years it was adapted to the needs of the TV industry without the benefit of central organization. Nowadays it attracts some 1,500 top-level TV p ...
, a television market *
LATAM Chile LATAM Airlines Chile (formerly LAN Airlines and LAN-Chile) is an airline based in Santiago, Chile, one of the founders of LATAM Airlines Group, Latin America's largest airline holding company. The main hub is Arturo Merino Benítez International ...
, formerly LAN Airlines (IATA code) *
Lavochkin NPO Lavochkin (russian: НПО Лавочкина, OKB-301, also called Lavochkin Research and Production Association or shortly Lavochkin Association, LA) is a Russian aerospace company. It is a major player in the Russian space program, being th ...
, a Russian design bureau *
Lawrence Academy at Groton Lawrence Academy at Groton is a private, nonsectarian, coeducational college preparatory boarding school located in Groton, Massachusetts, in the United States. Founded in 1792 by a group of fifty residents of Groton and Pepperell, Massachusetts ...
, an American boarding school *
Lebanese Army ) , founded = 1 August 1945 , current_form = 1991 , disbanded = , branches = Lebanese Ground ForcesLebanese Air Force Lebanese Navy , headquarters = Yarze, Lebanon , flying_hours = , websit ...
, the military of the Republic of Lebanon *
Library Association The Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals, since 2017 branded CILIP: The library and information association (pronounced ), is a professional body for librarians, information specialists and knowledge management, knowle ...
, now called the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals *
Linux Australia Linux Australia is the national, Australian Free and Open Source Software Community organisation. It was founded in 1997 and formally incorporated in New South Wales as a non-profit organisation in 1999. Linux Australia aims to represent Australian ...
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Local authority Local government is a generic term for the lowest tiers of public administration within a particular sovereign state. This particular usage of the word government refers specifically to a level of administration that is both geographically-loca ...
, a unit of government in the United Kingdom *
London Assembly The London Assembly is a 25-member elected body, part of the Greater London Authority, that scrutinises the activities of the Mayor of London and has the power, with a two-thirds super-majority, to amend the Mayor's annual budget and to reject ...
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Loyola Academy Loyola Academy is a private, Catholic, co-educational college preparatory high school run by the USA Midwest Province of the Society of Jesus in Wilmette, Illinois, a northern suburb of Chicago, and in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago ...
, an American college preparatory high school


Language

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Latin Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through the power of the ...
, by ISO 639-1 language code *
La (Javanese) is one of syllable in Javanese script that represent the sound /lɔ/, /la/. It is transliterated to Latin as "la", and sometimes in Indonesian orthography as "lo". It has two other forms (''pasangan''), which are and (if followed by 'ꦸ' and ...
(ꦭ), a syllabic in the Javanese abugidic script * la, a definite
article (grammar) An article is any member of a class of dedicated words that are used with noun phrases to mark the identifiability of the referents of the noun phrases. The category of articles constitutes a part of speech. In English, both "the" and "a(n)" ar ...
form in Romance languages


Places


Europe

* Lancaster, a city in northwest England **
LA postcode area The LA postcode area, also known as the Lancaster postcode area,Royal Mail, ''Address Management Guide'', (2004) is a group of 23 postcode districts in north-west England, within 17 post towns. These cover north Lancashire (including Lancaster, ...
, northwest England (area name derived from city of Lancaster) *
Landeck District The Bezirk Landeck ( it, Distretto di Landeck) is an administrative district (''Bezirk'') in Tyrol, Austria. It borders the district Reutte in the north, the district Imst in the east, South Tyrol (Italy) and Graubünden (Switzerland) in the sout ...
, Austria (''LA'' on vehicle license plates) *
Long Ashton Long Ashton is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England. It falls within the unitary authority of North Somerset and is one of a number of large villages just outside the boundary of city of Bristol urban area. The parish has a population ...
, North Somerset, England


North America

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Latin America Latin America or * french: Amérique Latine, link=no * ht, Amerik Latin, link=no * pt, América Latina, link=no, name=a, sometimes referred to as LatAm is a large cultural region in the Americas where Romance languages — languages derived f ...
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Los Altos (disambiguation) Los Altos (Spanish, "the heights", "the highlands", "the tall nes) is the name of several places, including: * the former state of Los Altos, Central America, now divided between Guatemala and Mexico. * the city of Los Altos, California, in the Uni ...
, various places *
Louisiana Louisiana , group=pronunciation (French: ''La Louisiane'') is a state in the Deep South and South Central regions of the United States. It is the 20th-smallest by area and the 25th most populous of the 50 U.S. states. Louisiana is borde ...
, a state in the United States (postal abbreviation: LA) *
Lethbridge Lethbridge ( ) is a city in the province of Alberta, Canada. With a population of 101,482 in its 2019 Alberta municipal censuses, 2019 municipal census, Lethbridge became the fourth Alberta city to surpass 100,000 people. The nearby Canadian ...
, Alberta, Canada *
Lower Alabama Lower Alabama is the parts of southern Alabama including the Florida-border counties from Escambia County over to Houston County. Because there is no formally defined border, there are three overlapping areas generally referred to as Lower Alabam ...
(South Alabama and Northwest Florida) *
Lewiston–Auburn Lewiston–Auburn (L–A) are twin cities in Androscoggin County, Maine, USA. Together, they have a population of 61,182 in a combined . The cities are commonly called "Cities of the Androscoggin," as they are seated along the banks of the Andro ...
, twin cities in the US state of Maine


Elsewhere

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Los Ángeles (disambiguation) Los Angeles is the most populous city in California and the second most populous in the United States. Los Angeles may also refer to: Places Panama * Los Ángeles, Chiriquí, a corregimiento * Los Ángeles, Los Santos, another corregimien ...
, several places in Latin countries *
Laos Laos (, ''Lāo'' )), officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic ( Lao: ສາທາລະນະລັດ ປະຊາທິປະໄຕ ປະຊາຊົນລາວ, French: République démocratique populaire lao), is a socialist ...
(by ISO 3166-1 country code) **
.la .la is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Laos. Although the .la domain is officially assigned to the country of Laos, subdomains have been delegated to some organizations outside Laos. History The LA Names Corporation, b ...
, country-code top level domain for Laos *
Las Anod Las Anod ( so, Laascaanood; ar, لاسعانود) is the administrative capital of the Sool region of Somaliland. Territorial dispute The city is disputed by Puntland and Somaliland. The former bases its claim due to the kinship ties between ...
, a city in Khatumo and Somalia *
Latin America Latin America or * french: Amérique Latine, link=no * ht, Amerik Latin, link=no * pt, América Latina, link=no, name=a, sometimes referred to as LatAm is a large cultural region in the Americas where Romance languages — languages derived f ...
* La, Ghana, a town in La Dade Kotopon Municipal District, Greater Accra Region, Ghana


Science, technology, and mathematics


Biology, biochemistry, and medicine

* ''La'' (genus), a genus of moths *
Lauric acid Lauric acid, systematically dodecanoic acid, is a saturated fatty acid with a 12-carbon atom chain, thus having many properties of medium-chain fatty acids. It is a bright white, powdery solid with a faint odor of bay oil or soap. The salts and es ...
, a saturated fatty acid *
Lewis acids and bases A Lewis acid (named for the American physical chemist Gilbert N. Lewis) is a chemical species that contains an empty orbital which is capable of accepting an electron pair from a Lewis base to form a Lewis adduct. A Lewis base, then, is any sp ...
, literature abbreviation *
Linoleic acid Linoleic acid (LA) is an organic compound with the formula COOH(CH2)7CH=CHCH2CH=CH(CH2)4CH3. Both alkene groups are cis-trans isomerism, ''cis''. It is a fatty acid sometimes denoted 18:2 (n-6) or 18:2 ''cis''-9,12. A linoleate is a salt (chem ...
, a fatty acid *
Lipoic acid Lipoic acid (LA), also known as α-lipoic acid, alpha-lipoic acid (ALA) and thioctic acid, is an organosulfur compound derived from caprylic acid (octanoic acid). ALA is made in animals normally, and is essential for aerobic metabolism. It is a ...
, an organosulfur compound *
Lupus anticoagulant Lupus anticoagulant is an immunoglobulin that binds to phospholipids and proteins associated with the cell membrane. Its name is a partial misnomer, as it is actually a prothrombotic antibody ''in vivo''. Lupus anticoagulant in living systems cause ...
, an autoimmune disorder *
Local anesthetic A local anesthetic (LA) is a medication that causes absence of pain sensation. In the context of surgery, a local anesthetic creates an absence of pain in a specific location of the body without a loss of consciousness, as opposed to a general an ...
, in medicine


Computing

* Load average, a measure of the amount of computational work that a computer system performs


Other uses in science, technology, and mathematics

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Lanthanum Lanthanum is a chemical element with the symbol La and atomic number 57. It is a soft, ductile, silvery-white metal that tarnishes slowly when exposed to air. It is the eponym of the lanthanide series, a group of 15 similar elements between lantha ...
, symbol La, a chemical element *
Laser ablation Laser ablation or photoablation (also called laser blasting) is the process of removing material from a solid (or occasionally liquid) surface by irradiating it with a laser beam. At low laser flux, the material is heated by the absorbed laser ...
, a technique of removing material from a surface by irradiating it with a laser beam *
Linear algebra Linear algebra is the branch of mathematics concerning linear equations such as: :a_1x_1+\cdots +a_nx_n=b, linear maps such as: :(x_1, \ldots, x_n) \mapsto a_1x_1+\cdots +a_nx_n, and their representations in vector spaces and through matrices. ...
, a branch of mathematics


Other uses

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Landscape architecture Landscape architecture is the design of outdoor areas, landmarks, and structures to achieve environmental, social-behavioural, or aesthetic outcomes. It involves the systematic design and general engineering of various structures for constructio ...
, the design of outdoor structures *
Language arts Language arts (also known as English language arts or ELA) is the study and improvement of the arts of language. Traditionally, the primary divisions in language arts are literature and language, where language in this case refers to both lingu ...
, an educational subject *
Legislative assistant A legislative assistant (LA) or legislative analyst is a person who works for a legislator as a legislative staffer, a government agency as a legislative affairs professional, or in the government relations and regulatory affairs industry by monitor ...
, a rôle on a legislator's staff


People with the given name, La

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La David Johnson The Tongo Tongo ambush or the Niger ambush occurred on 4 October 2017, when armed militants from the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (ISGS) attacked Nigerien and US soldiers outside the village of Tongo Tongo, Niger, while they were returni ...
(1992–2017), United States Army Sergeant *
LaBradford Smith LaBradford Corvey Smith (born April 3, 1969) is an American retired professional basketball player. Career Smith went to Bay City High School in Bay City, Texas. He played collegiately at the University of Louisville before being selected by the ...
(born 1969), American basketball player


Vessels of the United States Navy

* ''Los Angeles''-class submarine, a boat class


See also

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La La (disambiguation) La La may refer to: Music * La la (music), a style of Louisianan Creole music Albums * ''L.A. L.A.'' (album), a retrospective album by Stiv Bators and also the name of a song by the artist Songs * "La La" (Ashlee Simpson song), a song by Ashle ...
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Los Angeles (disambiguation) Los Angeles is the most populous city in California and the second most populous in the United States. Los Angeles may also refer to: Places Panama * Los Ángeles, Chiriquí, a corregimiento * Los Ángeles, Los Santos, another corregimien ...
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