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LU en · NOUN · etymology 1

Meanings

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of livestock unit.

Forms

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

LU en · PROPN · etymology 1

Meanings

  1. (UK, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of London Underground.
  2. (US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of Liberty Union Party.
  3. (Philippines, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of La Union: a province of the Ilocos Region, Philippines.
    alt of La Union
Source: en.wiktionary, “LU” (name), dump 20260902, contributors via the page history. Text licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

LU en · NOUN · etymology 2

Etymology

Short for lower-upper.

Meanings

  1. A matrix decomposition which writes a matrix as the product of a lower and upper triangular matrix, used in numerical analysis to solve systems of linear equations or find the inverse of a matrix.