(Main list of acronyms) L – (s) Fifty (in Roman numerals) – (i) Label – Lap – Large – Laser (US military aircraft basic mission designation) – Latin – Left – (s) Litre – (i) Low (transmissions) LA l8r, g8r – (a) later, gator la – (s) Latin language (ISO 639-1 code) La – (s) Lanthanum LA (s) Laos (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram) Louisiana (postal symbol) (i) Los Angeles LAAS (i) Local Area Augmentation System Los Angeles Astronomical Society LAB – (a) Logistics Assault Base LabVIEW – (p) Laboratory Virtual Instrumentation Engineering Workbench LACMA – (a/i) Los Angeles County Museum of Art LAD – (a) Laser Aiming Device LADW – (i) Local Air Defence Warning LAESI – (i) Local Authority & Emergency Service Information LAK – (s) Laotian kip (ISO 4217 currency code) LAMP – (multiple meanings) LAN – (a) Local Area Network LANL – (i) Los Alamos National Laboratory lao – (s) Lao language (ISO 639-2 code) LAO – (s) Laos (ISO 3166 trigram) LAPD – (i) Los Angeles Police Department LAR Light Armoured Reconnaissance Logistics Assistance Representative LARC – (a) Livermore Advanced Research Computer (cf. LLNL) LARP – (a) Live-Action Role-Playing LAS – (s) McCarran International Airport (Las Vegas, Nevada) Laser – (a) Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation (cf. Maser) lat – (s) Latin language (ISO 639-2 code) LAT (i/a) Lowest Astronomical Tide (nautical charts) Licensed Athletic Trainer (used in many of the United States; see www.oata.org) LATA – (i) Local Access Transport Area LATCH – (p) Lower Anchors and Tethers for Children (U.S. standard for attachment points for child safety seats in passenger cars) lav – (s) Latvian language (ISO 639-2 code) LAV (a) Land Assault Vehicle Light Armoured Vehicle Lymphadenopathy-Associated Virus LAW] – (a) Light Antitank Weapon LAX (s) Los Angeles International Airport (i) The Latin American Xchange (professional wrestling) LB lb (s) pound (Latin librum) Luxembourgish language (ISO 639-1 code) LB – (s) Lebanon (ISO 3166 digram) LBH (i) Light Battlefield Helicopter Lyman-Birge-Hopfield bands LBJ (i) Lady Bird Johnson LeBron James Light Bulb Joke Little Beagle Johnson (the dog owned by Lyndon and Lady Bird Johnson) Lyndon Baines Johnson LBN – (s) Lebanon (ISO 3166 trigram) LBNL – (i) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory LBP – (s) Lebanese pound (ISO 4217 currency code) LBR – (s) Liberia (ISO 3166 trigram) LBS – (i) Location-based service lbs – (s) pounds (plural form