L2

English

Etymology 1

Noun

L2 (plural L2s)

1. second language (a language being learned, as opposed to mother tongue).

   Coordinate term: L1

   • 2008, Jette G. Hansen Edwards, Mary L. Zampini, Phonology and Second Language Acquisition, John Benjamins Publishing (→ISBN), page 153:

     That is, for almost all late second language (L2) learners, the phonetic realization of phonological structures in the L2 is markedly different from native-language patterns.

Translations

Translations

• French: L2 (fr) f
• German: L2 f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: L2 (L2)

Etymology 2

Lagrange points (green), primary central object (yellow) and secondary orbiting object (blue)

Noun

L2

1. (astrophysics) second Lagrange point, located further out from the primary of a system where a smaller object orbits a larger one, behind the smaller object, inline with a line drawn through the centres of the larger and smaller objects

Related terms

• (astrophysics): Lagrange point, L1, L3, L4, L5

Anagrams

• 2 L, 2L