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
Labour Youth is the youth wing of the Labour Party of Ireland. Membership is open to those aged from 16 to 30 years old.
History 1979–2000
Labour Youth succeeded the Young Labour League as a full section of the Labour Party in 1979, unde ...
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)
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)
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
''Rayman'' is a franchise of platformer video games, created by video game designer Michel Ancel for Ubisoft. Since the release of the original game in 1995, the series has produced a total of 45 games across multiple platforms.
The series ...
, 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
Ly is a digraph of the Latin alphabet, used in Hungarian.
Usage
''Ly'' is the twentieth letter of the Hungarian alphabet. Its Hungarian name is ''elipszilon'' . Now, it can represent the same phoneme (palatal approximant) as the Hungaria ...
, or ''elipszilon'', a digraph in the Hungarian alphabet
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El Al
EL AL Israel Airlines Ltd. (), trading as EL AL (, "Upwards", "To the Skies", or "Skywards", stylized as ELAL; ) is the flag carrier of Israel. Since its inaugural flight from Geneva to Tel Aviv in September 1948, the airline has grown to serve ...
(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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