A diagram showing the different types of galaxy in the Hubble classification, so named because its shape resembles a tuning fork. The ‘handle’ consists of the elliptical galaxies (in order of increasing flattening) followed by lenticular galaxies. Along the two parallel ‘prongs’ of the fork are the spiral and barred spirals respectively, from type a (near the handle) to type d (tip of the prongs).
- local oscillator
- local public good
- local range zone
- local realism
- local sidereal time
- local standard of rest
- local supercluster
- local thermodynamic equilibrium
- local time
- local wind
- local winds
- Locarno, Treaties of (1 December 1925)
- located vector
- location
- locational advantage
- location-allocation model
- location coefficient
- location operator
- location-scale family of distributions
- location-specific
- location theory
- location transparency
- locator
- locator beacon
- lochan