LP
pronunciation
How to pronounce LP in British English:
UK [ˌel ˈpi:]
How to pronounce LP in American English:
US [ˌel'pi]
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- Noun:
- a long-playing phonograph record; designed to be played at 33.3 rpm
Word Origin
- LP
- 1948, abbreviation of long-playing phonograph record. The most revolutionary development to hit the recording industry since the invention of the automatic changer is the Long Playing record, which can hold an entire 45-minute symphony or musical-comedy score on a single 12-inch disk. ... The disks, released a few weeks ago by Columbia Records and made of Vinylite, have phenomenally narrow grooves (.003 of an inch). They are played at less than half the speed of the standard old-style records. ["Life" magazine, July 26, 1948]
Example
- 1. Mr. kraus is chief executive of investment-management firm alliancebernstein holding lp .
- 2. What do you mean by doing the lp just right ?
- 3. The following album , the marshall mathers lp .
- 4. Blackstone group lp and apollo investment management lp have separately expressed interest , these people said .
- 5. What 's worse , a chinese lp putting money into the same fund might resent the fund being hamstrung because of its foreign taint .