LP


abbreviation
  1. 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.

Origin of LP

1
First recorded in 1945–50

Other words from LP

  • min·i-LP, noun, plural min·i-LPs, min·i-LP's.

Other definitions for L.P. (2 of 2)

L.P.

abbreviation
  1. long primer.

  2. low pressure.

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How to use LP in a sentence

  • There was nothing in the pockets of the overcoat, but inside the hat he found pasted the initials L. P.

    Dope | Sax Rohmer
  • There is a story that Muggins the Elder was made a baronet for having lent money to a R-y-l p-rs-n-ge.

    The Book of Snobs | William Makepeace Thackeray
  • He also read the initials inside a hat lying on the grass: "L. P."

    The Golden Triangle | Maurice Leblanc
  • "M-o-t-o-r s-m-a-s-h o-n r-o-a-d h-e-l-p c-o-p-s," he spelled out.

British Dictionary definitions for LP (1 of 3)

LP1

noun
    • 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

  1. 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

British Dictionary definitions for LP (2 of 3)

LP2

abbreviation for
  1. (in Britain) Lord Provost

  2. Also: lp low pressure

British Dictionary definitions for L/P (3 of 3)

L/P

/ printing /


abbreviation for
  1. letterpress

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