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    LA most commonly refers to Los Angeles, the second largest city in the United States. However, La or LA may also refer to many other things including the musical note A, various people, places, organizations, scientific and mathematical concepts. This document from Wikipedia provides a extensive but non-exhaustive list of over 50 other meanings and uses of the letters La or LA across many different domains.

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    LA most commonly refers to Los Angeles, the second largest city in the United States. However, La or LA may also refer to many other things including the musical note A, various people, places, organizations, scientific and mathematical concepts. This document from Wikipedia provides a extensive but non-exhaustive list of over 50 other meanings and uses of the letters La or LA across many different domains.

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    LA most commonly refers to Los Angeles, the second largest city in the United States. However, La or LA may also refer to many other things including the musical note A, various people, places, organizations, scientific and mathematical concepts. This document from Wikipedia provides a extensive but non-exhaustive list of over 50 other meanings and uses of the letters La or LA across many different domains.

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    LA most commonly refers to Los Angeles, the second largest city in the United States. However, La or LA may also refer to many other things including the musical note A, various people, places, organizations, scientific and mathematical concepts. This document from Wikipedia provides a extensive but non-exhaustive list of over 50 other meanings and uses of the letters La or LA across many different domains.

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    La
    LA most frequently refers to Los Angeles, the second largest city in the United States.

    La, LA, or L.A. may also refer to:

    Arts and entertainment

    Music
    La (musical note), or A, the sixth note
    "L.A.", a song by Elliott Smith on Figure 8 (album)
    L.A. (EP), by Teddy Thompson
    L.A. (Light Album), a Beach Boys album
    "L.A." (Neil Young song), 1973
    The La's, an English rock band
    L.A. Reid, a prominent music producer
    Yung L.A., a rapper
    Lady A, an American country music trio
    "L.A." (Amy Macdonald song), 2007
    "La", a song by Australian-Israeli singer-songwriter Old Man River

    Other media
    l(a, a poem by E. E. Cummings
    La (Tarzan), fictional queen of the lost city of Opar (Tarzan)
    Lá, later known as Lá Nua, an Irish language newspaper
    La7, an Italian television channel
    LucasArts, an American video game developer and publisher
    Liber Annuus, academic journal

    Business, organizations, and government agencies


    L.A. Screenings, a television market
    LATAM Chile, formerly LAN Airlines (IATA code)
    Lavochkin, a Russian design bureau
    Lawrence Academy at Groton, an American boarding school
    Lebanese Army, the military of the Republic of Lebanon
    Library Association, now called the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals
    Linux Australia
    Local authority, a unit of government in the United Kingdom

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    London Assembly
    Loyola Academy, an American college preparatory high school

    Language
    Latin, by ISO 639-1 language code
    La (Javanese) (ꦭ), a syllabic in the Javanese abugidic script

    la, a form of the definite article in many Romance languages

    Places

    Europe
    Lancaster, a city in northwest England
    LA postcode area, northwest England (area name derived from city of Lancaster)
    Landeck District, Austria (LA on vehicle license plates)
    Long Ashton, North Somerset, England

    North America
    Latin America
    Los Altos (disambiguation), various places
    Louisiana, a state in the United States (postal abbreviation: LA)
    Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
    Lower Alabama (South Alabama and Northwest Florida)
    Lewiston–Auburn, twin cities in the US state of Maine

    Elsewhere
    Los Ángeles (disambiguation), several places in Latin countries
    Laos (by ISO 3166-1 country code)
    .la, country-code top level domain for Laos
    Las Anod, a city in Khatumo and Somalia
    Latin America
    La, Ghana, a town in La Dade Kotopon Municipal District, Greater Accra Region, Ghana

    Science, technology, and mathematics

    Biology, biochemistry, and medicine


    La (genus), a genus of moths

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    Lauric acid, a saturated fatty acid


    Lewis acids and bases, literature abbreviation
    Linoleic acid, a fatty acid
    Lipoic acid, an organosulfur compound
    Lupus anticoagulant, an autoimmune disorder
    Local anesthetic, in medicine

    Computing
    Load average, a measure of the amount of computational work that a computer system performs

    Other uses in science, technology, and mathematics


    Lanthanum, symbol La, a chemical element
    Laser ablation, a technique of removing material from a surface by irradiating it with a laser beam
    Linear algebra, a branch of mathematics

    Other uses
    Landscape architecture, the design of outdoor structures
    Language arts, an educational subject
    Legislative assistant, a rôle on a legislator's staff

    People with the given name, La


    La David Johnson (1992–2017), United States Army Sergeant
    LaBradford Smith (born 1969), American basketball player

    Vessels of the United States Navy


    Los Angeles-class submarine, a boat class
    USS Los Angeles (ID-1470), a tanker in commission from 1917 to 1919
    USS Los Angeles (ZR-3), an airship in commission from 1924 to 1932
    USS Los Angeles (CA-135), a heavy cruiser in commission from 1945 to 1963
    USS Los Angeles (SSN-688), a submarine in commission from 1976 to 2010

    See also
    La La (disambiguation)
    Los Angeles (disambiguation)

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