L5 or L-5 may refer to:
Entertainment
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L5 (band)
L5 was a French girl group. They were known for their participation in the French ''Popstars'' TV programme in its first season in 2001.
L5 reached the 54th position in the list of French best-selling singles and held the number 1 position in t ...
, French female pop music group
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L5 Games
Founded in March 2003, Gravity Interactive LLC was created to host games for North America developed by GRAVITY Co., Ltd. It is based in Buena Park near Orange County, California. Gravity was initially provided with several servers from Gravity ...
, video games developer published by Gravity Interactive
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Gibson L5
The Gibson L-5 guitar was first produced in 1923 by the Gibson Guitar Corporation, then of Kalamazoo, Michigan, under the direction of acoustical engineer and designer Lloyd Loar, and has been in production ever since. It was considered the pr ...
, electric guitar
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Home on Lagrange (The L5 Song) "Home on Lagrange (The L5 Song)" is a filk song, written in 1977 by William S. Higgins and Barry D. Gehm, intended to be sung to the tune of ''Home on the Range''. It was inspired by the idea of placing large, self-contained space colonies into stab ...
", a filk song
Science
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Haplogroup L5 (mtDNA)
Haplogroup L5 is a human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) clade. It was previously known as L1e.
Distribution
L5 is a small haplogroup centered in East Africa. The highest frequency is in Mbuti Pygmies from Eastern Central Africa at 15%.
It is prese ...
, human mitochondrial DNA haplogroup
* L5, the fifth
lumbar vertebra
The lumbar vertebrae are, in human anatomy, the five vertebrae between the rib cage and the pelvis. They are the largest segments of the vertebral column and are characterized by the absence of the foramen transversarium within the transverse ...
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Lagrangian point 5 in an astronomical solar system
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Lp space for p=5
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Ribosomal protein L5
60S ribosomal protein L5 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ''RPL5'' gene.
Function
Ribosomes, the organelles that catalyze protein synthesis, consist of a small 40S subunit and a large 60S subunit. Together these subunits are ...
, a human gene
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Ubiquitin carboxyl-terminal hydrolase L5
Ubiquitin carboxyl-terminal hydrolase isozyme L5 is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the ''UCHL5'' gene
In biology, the word gene (from , ; "...Wilhelm Johannsen coined the word gene to describe the Mendelian units of heredity..." m ...
, a human gene
Transportation
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Stinson L-5 Sentinel, aircraft used by the United States Army Air Forces in World War II
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Barcelona Metro line 5
Line 5, currently known as Cornellà Centre – Vall d'Hebron, its termini, and often called "Línia Blava" (Blue line), is a rapid transit metro line belonging to the Barcelona Metro
The Barcelona Metro ( Catalan and Spanish: ) i ...
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HMS ''L5'', a 1917 British L class submarine
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Junkers L5
The Junkers L 5 was a six-cylinder, water-cooled, inline engine for aircraft built in Germany during the 1920s. First run in 1925, it was a much enlarged development of the Junkers L2.
Design and development
The Junkers L5 was a development of J ...
, a 1920s German six-cylinder, water-cooled, inline aircraft engine
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PRR L5, an American electric locomotive
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SP&S Class L-5
Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway Class L-5 was a class of 4-4-0 steam locomotives built in 1897 by Schenectady Locomotive Works
The Schenectady Locomotive Works built railroad locomotives from its founding in 1848 through its merger into ...
, an 1897 steam locomotives class
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Strv L-5
Landsverk L-5 was one of the first tanks designed by the Swedish industrial company Landsverk
:''This is about the origin of the family name Landsverk. For the Swedish heavy industry manufacturer, see AB Landsverk.''
Landsverk is the name of tw ...
, a 1929 Swedish tank designed by Landsverk
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USS ''L-5'' (SS-44), a 1916 United States Navy L-class submarine
Other uses
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L5 Society
The L5 Society was founded in 1975 by Carolyn Meinel and Keith Henson to promote the space colony ideas of Gerard K. O'Neill.
In 1987, the L5 Society merged with the National Space Institute to form the National Space Society.
Name
The name ...
, a society promoting Dr. Gerard K. O'Neill's vision of space colonization
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ISO/IEC 8859-9
ISO/IEC 8859-9:1999, ''Information technology — 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets — Part 9: Latin alphabet No. 5'', is part of the ISO/IEC 8859 series of ASCII-based standard character encodings, first edition published in 1989. ...
(Latin-5), an 8-bit character encoding
See also
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Level 5 (disambiguation)
{{Letter-Number Combination Disambiguation
