A lax is a

salmon Salmon (; : salmon) are any of several list of commercially important fish species, commercially important species of euryhaline ray-finned fish from the genera ''Salmo'' and ''Oncorhynchus'' of the family (biology), family Salmonidae, native ...

. LAX as an acronym most commonly refers to

Los Angeles International Airport Los Angeles International Airport is the primary international airport serving Los Angeles and its Greater Los Angeles, surrounding metropolitan area, in the U.S. state of California. LAX is located in the Westchester, Los Angeles, Westcheste ...

in Southern California, United States. LAX or Lax may also refer to:

Places

Within Los Angeles

Union Station (Los Angeles) Los Angeles Union Station is the main railroad station in Los Angeles, California, and the largest passenger rail terminal in the Western United States. It opened in May 1939 as the Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal, replacing La Grande St ...

, Los Angeles' main train depot, whose Amtrak station code is "LAX" * The

Port of Los Angeles The Port of Los Angeles is a seaport managed by the Los Angeles Harbor Department, a unit of the Los Angeles, City of Los Angeles. It occupies of land and water with of waterfront and adjoins the separate Port of Long Beach. Promoted as "Amer ...

, whose port identifier code is "LAX"

Other

* Lax, Switzerland, a municipality of the canton of Valais * Lax Lake (disambiguation) *

La Crosse, Wisconsin La Crosse ( ) is a city in La Crosse County, Wisconsin, United States, and its county seat. Positioned alongside the Mississippi River, La Crosse is the largest city on Wisconsin's western border. La Crosse's population was 52,680 as of the 202 ...

, a city on the Mississippi River

Sports

Los Angeles Xtreme The Los Angeles Xtreme was a professional American football team based in Los Angeles, California. The team was a member of the original version of the XFL (2001), XFL, begun by Vince McMahon of World Wrestling Entertainment and by NBC, a major ...

, a former American football team *

Lacrosse Lacrosse is a contact team sport played with a lacrosse stick and a lacrosse ball. It is the oldest organized sport in North America, with its origins with the indigenous people of North America as early as the 12th century. The game w ...

, a sport *

The Latin American Xchange The Latin American Xchange (LAX) is a professional wrestling stable that has wrestled in various incarnations primarily for Total Nonstop Action / Impact Wrestling and currently in Major League Wrestling (MLW). The group achieved initial succ ...

, a professional wrestling stable

Media and entertainment

* ''LAX'' (album), the third studio album from rapper The Game * ''LAX'' (TV series), a 2004–05 television series set in Los Angeles International Airport * " LA X", the two-part sixth season 2010 premiere of the television show ''Lost'' * LAX, a night club at Luxor Las Vegas * "LAX", a song by the rapper Xzibit from ''

Weapons of Mass Destruction A weapon of mass destruction (WMD) is a Biological agent, biological, chemical weapon, chemical, Radiological weapon, radiological, nuclear weapon, nuclear, or any other weapon that can kill or significantly harm many people or cause great dam ...

'' * "LAX", a song by Snoop Dogg featuring Ice Cube from ''

Tha Blue Carpet Treatment ''Tha Blue Carpet Treatment'' is the eighth studio album by West Coast hip hop recording artist Snoop Dogg. It was released on November 21, 2006, by Doggystyle Records and Geffen Records. Recording sessions took place from November 2005 to Septem ...

'' * "LAX", a song by Big D and the Kids Table on their album '' How It Goes'' * "LAX", a song by Jake Owen from ''

American Love ''American Love'' is the fifth studio album by American country music artist Jake Owen. It was released on July 29, 2016, through RCA Records Nashville, RCA Nashville. It includes the #1 single "American Country Love Song". Reception AllMusic' ...

'' * "LAX", a song by Hawk Nelson from '' Crazy Love'' * L.A.X., a disco studio act who released two albums on Prelude Records

Science and linguistics

Laxative Laxatives, purgatives, or aperients are substances that loosen stools and increase bowel movements. They are used to treat and prevent constipation. Laxatives vary as to how they work and the side effects they may have. Certain stimulant, lubri ...

, a concoction that loosens the bowels * Lax pair, a pair of matrices that solve a type of differential equation, named after Peter Lax * A lax vowel, one that lacks the quality of

tenseness In phonology, tenseness or tensing is, most generally, the pronunciation of a sound with greater muscular effort or constriction than is typical. More specifically, tenseness is the pronunciation of a vowel with less centralization (i.e. either ...

People

* Anneli Cahn Lax (1922–1999), American mathematician * Benjamin Lax (1915–2015), American physicist *

Gaspar Lax Gaspar Lax (1487 – 23 February 1560) was a Spanish mathematician, logician, and philosopher who spent much of his career in Paris. Biography Lax was born in Sariñena, the son of Leonor de la Cueva and Gaspar Lax, a physician, and had two brot ...

(1487–1560), Spanish mathematician, logician, and philosopher * John Lax (1911–2001), American ice hockey player *

Peter Lax Peter David Lax (1 May 1926 – 16 May 2025) was a Hungarian-born American mathematician and Abel Prize laureate working in the areas of pure and applied mathematics. Lax made important contributions to integrable systems, fluid dynamics an ...

(1926–2025), Hungarian-American mathematician * Peter Lax (ice hockey) (born 1941), German ice hockey player * Rick Lax (born 1982), American entertainer * L.A.X (musician) (born 1993), Nigerian recording artist Damilola Afolabi