LY or ly may refer to:
Government and politics
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Libya
Libya (; ar, ليبيا, Lībiyā), officially the State of Libya ( ar, دولة ليبيا, Dawlat Lībiyā), is a country in the Maghreb region in North Africa. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to Egypt–Libya bo ...
(ISO 3166-1 country code LY)
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Lý dynasty
The Lý dynasty ( vi, Nhà Lý, , chữ Nôm: 茹李, chữ Hán: 李朝, Hán Việt: ''Lý triều'') was a Vietnamese dynasty that existed from 1009 to 1225. It was established by Lý Công Uẩn when he overthrew the Early Lê dynasty an ...
, a Vietnamese dynasty
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Labour Youth of Ireland
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Legislative Yuan
The Legislative Yuan is the unicameral legislature of the Republic of China (Taiwan) located in Taipei. The Legislative Yuan is composed of 113 members, who are directly elected for 4-year terms by people of the Taiwan Area through a parallel v ...
, the unicameral legislature of the Republic of China (Taiwan)
Science and technology
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.ly
.ly is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Libya.
Registration
A .ly registration is the process of registering a user domain name within the ccTLD for Libya. The .ly domain, introduced in 1997, , the Top-level domain for Libya
* .ly, the default filetype extension of the GNU
LilyPond
LilyPond is a computer program and file format for music engraving. One of LilyPond's major goals is to produce scores that are engraved with traditional layout rules, reflecting the era when scores were engraved by hand.
LilyPond is cross-pl ...
sheet music format
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Light-year
A light-year, alternatively spelled light year, is a large unit of length used to express astronomical distances and is equivalent to about 9.46 trillion kilometers (), or 5.88 trillion miles ().One trillion here is taken to be 1012 ...
, the ''distance'' that light travels in one year in a vacuum
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Langley (unit)
The langley (Ly) is a unit of heat transmission, especially used to express the rate of solar radiation (or insolation) received by the earth. The unit was proposed by Franz Linke in 1942 and named after Samuel Langley (1834–1906) in 1947.
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, a unit of energy distribution over a given area
Other uses
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Lý (Vietnamese surname), a Vietnamese surname
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Ly the Fairy, a character from ''Rayman 2: The Great Escape''
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-ly
The suffix ''-ly'' in English is usually a contraction of ''-like'', similar to the Anglo-Saxon ''-lice'' and German ''-lich''. It is commonly added to an adjective to form an adverb, but in some cases it is used to form an adjective, such as '' ...
'', an adjectival and adverbial suffix in English
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Hungarian ly, or ''elipszilon'', a digraph in the Hungarian alphabet
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El Al (IATA airline designator LY)
See also
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light year (disambiguation)
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YL (disambiguation)
A substituent is one or a group of atoms that replaces (one or more) atoms, thereby becoming a moiety in the resultant (new) molecule. (In organic chemistry and biochemistry, the terms ''substituent'' and ''functional group'', as well as ''side ...
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