SL
abbreviation
SL
1 Americanabbreviation
s.l.
2
American
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Also sl. salvage loss.
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Bibliography. without place (of publication).
SL
1
British
abbreviation
S/L
2
British
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sl
3
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sl
4
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Etymology
Origin of s.l.
From Latin sine locō s.l. for def. 2
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Street-side seating affords prime car spotting, which today includes a right-hand-drive Toyota Land Cruiser Prado SUV and an immaculate brown-on-tan Mercedes-Benz SL Pagoda two-seater.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
Developer SL Green is converting the 35-story office building into about 600 new apartments with a party room, sun deck and screening room.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
The Monogram Series SL comes in one of two exclusive colors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 2, 2026
The Ngurah Rai Immigration Office confirmed the 45-year-old - whom it referred to only by his initials SL - was arrested following an Interpol alert.
From BBC ● Mar. 29, 2026
Let P be the intersection of the line SL with the line RAM, then it can be readily shown that P is a point on the ellipse.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" by Various
Euclide doth demonstrate it thus: Let the Pentaedra's aeiou, and ysrlm, be of equall heighth: the first of a triangular base eio: The second of a parallelogramme base sl, double unto the triangular.
From The Way To Geometry by William Bedwell
This also appears from the instance adduced in sl 42: the jar is something perishable, but not a thing devoid of proof or to be sublated by true knowledge.
From The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 by George Thibaut
B, Transverse section of the same, showing the arrangement of the mesenteries, s, Sulcus; sl, sulculus.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" by Various
The word has another and more particular signification, as infra sl.
From Hindu Law and Judicature from the Dharma-Sástra of Yájnavalkya by Edward Röer
The like is to be said of the oblong of ay, and yi, by drawing the perpendicular sl, as afore.
From The Way To Geometry by William Bedwell
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