l2
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.13 in modern English
1
Scrabble Score
1
Letters
1
Syllables
1
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A second language (a language being learned, as opposed to a mother tongue).
noun
Abbreviation of Lagrange point 2, located beyond the smaller object on a line passing through the centers of the smaller and larger objects.
Example Sentences
- "That is, for almost all late second language (L2) learners, the phonetic realization of phonological structures in the L2 is markedly different from native-language patterns."
- "This advantage was pertinent in the Hong Kong context where English is largely an L2 language, although would not be expected to be as large in an L1 context."
- "Unlike the Hubble telescope, which orbits a few hundred miles above the Earth’s surface and is relatively accessible for servicing missions, the JWST will be located at what is called the L2 point, a location about a million miles farther away from the sun than the Earth."
- "In typical Intel chips L2 bandwidth is half of L1 bandwidth."
- "an L2 switch"
Etymology
From Level 2.