LY or ly may refer to:
Government and politics
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Libya
Libya, officially the State of Libya, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It borders the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to Egypt–Libya border, the east, Sudan to Libya–Sudan border, the southeast, Chad to Chad–L ...
(ISO 3166-1 country code LY)
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Lý dynasty
The Lý dynasty (, , chữ Nôm: 茹李, chữ Hán: 朝李, Vietnamese language, Vietnamese: ''triều Lý''), officially Đại Cồ Việt (chữ Hán: 大瞿越) from 1009 to 1054 and Đại Việt (chữ Hán: 大越) from 1054 to 1225, was ...
, 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 four-year terms by people of the Taiwan Area through a ...
, the unicameral legislature of the Republic of China (Taiwan)
Science and technology
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.ly, 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-pla ...
sheet music format
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Light-year
A light-year, alternatively spelled light year (ly or lyr), is a unit of length used to express astronomical distances and is equal to exactly , which is approximately 9.46 trillion km or 5.88 trillion mi. As defined by the International Astr ...
, the ''distance'' that light travels in one year in a vacuum
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Langley (unit), a unit of energy distribution over a given area
Other uses
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Lý (Vietnamese surname)
Lý (, ) is a Vietnamese name, Vietnamese surname. It is the 14th most common Vietnamese surname and is the 1176th most common American surname, according to the 2010 United States Census.
Origin
Traditionally, the surname Li is derived from the ...
, a Vietnamese surname
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Ly the Fairy, a character from ''Rayman 2: The Great Escape''
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-ly'', 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)
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LY Corporation
, trading as LYC, is a Japanese internet company owned by A Holdings, a joint venture between SoftBank Group of Japan, and Naver Corporation of South Korea, founded in 2023 by the merger of Z Holdings, and four subsidiaries including Line Co ...
- Japanese company former
Z Holdings
See also
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Light year (disambiguation)
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YL (disambiguation)
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