Glossary - L

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• L2L — Leader to Leader Program
• LA — Lab Assistant
• LAI — Lean Advancement Initiative (formerly Lean Aerospace Initiative, and Lean Aircraft Initiative)
• Lambda Chi — Lambda Chi Alpha, a fraternity of MIT
• LAMP — Library Access to Music Project
• LARA — Labor Aerospace Research Agenda
• LARC — Lunar Array for Radio Cosmology
• LBGT — Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay, and Transgender (also commonly referred to as LGBT)
• LBRC — Laser Biomedical Research Center
• LCA — Lambda Chi Alpha
• LCC — Latino Cultural Center
• LCEE — Laboratory Consortium for Environmental Excellence
• LCS — Laboratory for Computer Science
• LDAP — Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, an Internet protocol that programs use to look up information from a server.
• LEED — Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design
• LEES — Laboratory for Electromagnetic and Electronic Systems
• LEXCOM — Laboratory for Experimental and Computational Micromechanics
• LFEE — Laboratory for Energy and the Environment
• LGC — Living Group Council
• LGO (Program) — Leaders for Global Operations (formerly Leaders for Manufacturing; name changed in 2009)
• LIDS — Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems
• LIFT2
• LIGO — Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (joint project with MIT, CalTech and 20 other institutions)
• Limits — Data Warehouse term: Criteria used to narrow the scope of a query.
• LINAC — (Bates) Linear Accelerator
• LINC — Learning International Networks Consortium
• LINCC — Lincoln Laboratory Children's Center
• LINEAR — Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research (Project)
• LIS — Lowell Institute School (no longer at MIT)
• LL — Lincoln Laboratory
• LLARC — Language Learning and Resource Center. Currently known as the Foreign Languages and Literatures Resource Center (FLL)
• LMF — La Maison Française (also known as French House)
• LMIT — Lemelson-MIT Program
• LMP — Laboratory for Manufacturing and Productivity
• LNS — Laboratory for Nuclear Science
• localhost — "localhost" is the standard host name given to a computer's loopback network interface.
• LOFAR — Low Frequency Array, a radio telescope being built in the Netherlands and part of Germany
• LOGyCA — Columbia-based logistics company
• loopback — The term "loopback" or "loop-back" refers to a special route that sends traffic from your computer back to itself, usually without this traffic actually being sent out over the network.
• LSAT — Law School Admissions Test
• LSC — Lecture Series Committee
• LUChA — La Union Chicana por Aztlan
• LVAC — List Visual Arts Center