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fl

1 American  

abbreviation

Sports.
  1. flanker.


Fl 2 American  
Symbol, Chemistry, Physics.
  1. flerovium.


FL 3 American  

abbreviation

  1. Florida (approved especially for use with zip code).

  2. foreign language.


fL 4 American  

abbreviation

  1. foot-lambert.


fl. 5 American  

abbreviation

  1. flourished.


fl. 6 American  

abbreviation

  1. (in the Netherlands) guilder; guilders.


fl. 7 American  

abbreviation

  1. floor.

  2. florin.

  3. fluid.


Fl. 8 American  

abbreviation

  1. Flanders.

  2. Flemish.


FL 1 British  

abbreviation

  1. Flight Lieutenant

  2. Florida

  3. Liechtenstein (international car registration)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

fl. 2 British  

abbreviation

  1. floruit

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

symbol

  1. guilder

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Fl 3 British  

symbol

  1. flerovium

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of fl.5

From the Latin word flōruit

Origin of fl.6

From the Dutch word florin


Example Sentences

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We see a sharp work on Sept 21st, 5 fl in 59 seconds. 5-1 is a very nice price.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2019

He was moving from Austin to Los Angeles and knew his wife, Maryse—who co-stars in the couple’s USA reality series, “Miz & Mrs.”—wouldn’t want him fl ying off to play golf.

From Golf Digest ● Sep. 18, 2019

Some fraction of those habitable planets, fl, would actually blossom into living worlds, and some fraction of those living worlds, fi, would give birth to intelligent, conscious beings.

From Slate ● Sep. 27, 2013

It was perhaps the ultimate form of domestic entertainment: it brought the world into the home, occasioned family togetherness, and delivered hours of relaxing entertainment—all at the fl ip of a switch.

From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2013

The “third” which Sommelsdijk possessed was offered by his widow to William III. of England, but it was ultimately purchased by the city of Amsterdam for 700,000 fl.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various

Putting the trends together, we obtain Kr < Br < Ge < Fl.

From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019

Sum 41, All Time Low and Simple Plan, will be along for the tour’s ride, which makes 38 stops from coast to coast, including Las Vegas, Toronto, Atlanta, Scranton, Pa.; and Tampa, Fl.

From New York Times ● May 17, 2018

Photojournalist Keith Wilson worked behind the scenes with the Red Arrows for almost a year, including during the period when Fl Lt Egging and Fl Lt Cunningham died.

From BBC ● Jan. 29, 2014

Related: A frame-by-frame look at Johnson's swing Based at his new home in Palm Beach Gardens, Fl.,

From Golf Digest ● Oct. 16, 2013

Let us go back to the dream, already interpreted, of the three bad theatre tickets for 1 Fl.

From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

They scalloped when we visited my mother’s parents in Mexico Beach, FL.

From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2024

He took his future into his own hands instead, learning how to produce with a cracked copy of FL Studio and rapping into a USB microphone.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 22, 2024

The two most common variants in the U.S. today, EG.5 and FL 1.51, accounted for about 35% of the infections in the 2 weeks preceding 3 September.

From Science Magazine ● Sep. 8, 2023

Infections from Fornax, officially known as FL 1.5.1, are also rising across the country.

From Reuters ● Aug. 17, 2023

CONSTANTIVS," and the diademed head, and the legends, "FL.

From Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 100, September 27, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

So far, then, for our planet fL is less than 1/108, a millionth of a percent.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

Prices range from $30-$50 for 6 fl. oz., and products are available on NormaLife.com and at Barneys New York.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2019

The labels feature a sinister image of the Flint Water Plant and reads “16 fl. oz. non-potable.”

From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 2018

I was on the 14th fl. of my apartment building asleep when the quake hit.

From New York Times ● Mar. 1, 2010

Master Jan, the Brussels goldsmith, paid me three Philips fl. for what I did for him, the drawing for the seal and the two portraits.

From Albert Durer by T. Sturge Moore

Giampietrino, fl. first half of XVI CenturyMadonna and Saints.

From Handbook of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts by Joseph Breck

There is a restaurant in Pensacola, Fl., not far from where I live.

From Salon ● Apr. 27, 2023

At 9 p.m., the night before, I hopped on a plane from Newark, N.J., to Orlando, Fl., picked up my rental car and drove to the Kennedy Space Center about an hour away.

From New York Times ● Sep. 3, 2022

One day this summer, he and his buddy took a charter off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, Fl. for an afternoon of sun, fun and deep-sea fishing on the Atlantic Ocean.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 1, 2019

During his time in Fort Myers, Fl., several years ago, Saipov was "a very good person," an acquaintance, Kobiljon Matkarov, told the New York Times.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2017

Fl. in summer and maturing fruit in late summer or autumn.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray

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