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L1 en · NOUN · etymology 1

Etymology

From Language 1 (“first language”).

Meanings

  1. A mother tongue; someone's native language; own language.
    • This advantage was pertinent in the Hong Kong context where English is largely an L2 language, although would not be expected to be as large in an L1 context. 2017, Di Zou, James Lambert, “Feedback methods for student voice in the digital age”, in British Journal of Educational Technology, volume 48, number 5, page 1085:

Forms

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L1s Number=Plur lexicographic

Coordinates

L2

Translations (3)

ja L1 (L1) (Translations) · fr L1 (Translations) · de L1 (Translations)

Source: en.wiktionary, “L1” (noun), dump 20260902, contributors via the page history. Text licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

L1 en · NOUN · etymology 3

Etymology

From Level 1.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) Short for first level in various contexts. ▸ The first-level cache of a processor, closer to the processor than the second-level cache.
    • Writing of the L1 is performed one cache line at a time and can be 64 bytes or 32 bytes. 2009, Sandeep Koranne, Practical Computing on the Cell Broadband Engine, →ISBN, page 22:
  2. (uncountable) Short for first level in various contexts. ▸ The physical layer in the seven-layer OSI network model.