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LP

LP or lp may stand for:

in corporate law or company names, limited partnership
in chemistry, liquid propane
the long play phonograph record format. (which was, during the 1970s and 1980s, the most popular record format—see vinyl record)
Long Play (VCR format)
MDLP, the long play format of the MiniDisc
nu metal band, Linkin Park
in politics:
- the United States Libertarian Party
- the Liberal Party of Australia
in the dark-sky movement, light pollution
in applied mathematics, linear programming (a fundamental optimization problem)
the Larch Prover
the Lincoln Park gambling establishment in Rhode Island
Lonely Planet
in mathematics, Lp space
in popular usage in Taiwan, an abbreviation for testicles ("lan pa") in Taiwanese / Min Nan dialect, popularised by the use of this abbreviation when media outlets reported Taiwan's Minister of Foreign Affairs Mark Chen blasting Singapore over its pro-China stance [1]

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