What does LP stand for?

Launch Position

This definition appears very rarely and is found in the following Acronym Finder categories:

Military and Government

Other Resources:

<< Previous	Abbreviation Database Surfer		Next >>
Large Print (visual impairment) Large Processor Las Plumas (California) Laser Printer Laser Prostatectomy Last Paid Latent Period Latin Percussion (maker of various percussion instruments) Latinos Progresando (not-for-profit organization assisting with immigration related issues) Laughing Place (Disney)		Laxmikant Pyarelal (Inidan film music producers) Layout Plan (urban development) Lazer Park (New York) Leadership Points (gaming) Leadership Program Leaf Protein Learning Page (educational resources website company) Leased Platform Left Traffic Pattern Legal Problems

Samples in periodicals archive:

The system, generally transported by truck, tracks incoming artillery projectiles to determine launch positions, but it also can simultaneously track outgoing projectiles to determine the impact point.

Italy: Italian Army Orders Arthur Weapon-Locating Radar

In place of the fourth missile, however, the photo showed one still on the ground in its launch position and what appears to be a vehicle nearby.

Expert: Iran `doctored' photo of missile launches

When he reached my launch position on the runway, he only had enough breath left to mutter, "nose-gear pin.

The final check

You sit in a Top Gun-style cockpit seat that swings forwards through 90 degrees into launch position, then suspended horizontally from the track, you're whipped around a series of curves, dips, rolls and spirals that one second have your nose skimming the ground, and the next have you flat on your back watching the sky flash by.

Travel: Out to launch; NIGEL THOMPSON TESTS ALTON TOWERS' NEW RIDE

It was a relatively simple design consisting of racks of parallel rails on which rockets were mounted, with a folding frame to raise the rails to launch position.

Terror from the skies; ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

My heart raced as the capsule moved into the launch position.

Holidays: We have lift off..

The trajectory of the rockets after being fired from 1,000 yards out necessitated a correct calibration from the launch position to the point of impact.

VC-7 and the development of air-to-ground rockets

More fireworks from the Harbor Bridge and four other launch positions along the harbor will follow.

Notebook Frenc track star regrets decision to leave Games