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LP
1abbreviation for
- long playing; long play:
- a vinyl phonograph record played at 33 1/3 rpm and typically containing seven or more tracks, or one or more long classical pieces.
- a full-length music album, typically comprised of ten to twelve songs: called LP as an evolution of the traditional long-playing record, albums in other formats are not known by the underlying expanded form, and identified only by the abbreviation.
L.P.
2or l.p.
abbreviation for
- long primer.
- low pressure.
LP
1abbreviation for
- (in Britain) Lord Provost
- Alsolp low pressure
LP
2noun
- a long-playing gramophone record: usually one 12 inches (30 cm) or 10 inches (25 cm) in diameter, designed to rotate at 33 1 3 revolutions per minute Compare EP
- ( as modifier )
an LP sleeve
- long play: a slow-recording facility on a VCR which allows twice the length of material to be recorded on a tape from that of standard play
L/P
3abbreviation for
- letterpress
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Other Words From
- min·i-LP noun plural miniLPs miniLPs
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Word History and Origins
Origin of LP1
First recorded in 1945–50
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Example Sentences
“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there,” L.P. Hartley famously wrote in The Go-Between.
From The Daily Beast
This explanation should make the things clear you do not already know,—L.P.
From Project Gutenberg
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