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Meaning of L1 | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2

Definitions

  1. A mother tongue; someone's native language; own language.
  2. Abbreviation of Lagrange point 1, located between the larger and smaller objects along a line connecting the two.
    abbreviation, alt-of
  3. Short for first level in various contexts.
  4. The first-level cache of a processor, closer to the processor than the second-level cache.
  5. The physical layer in the seven-layer OSI network model.

Equivalents

Deutsch Erstsprache L1
Français L1
日本語 L1 (L1)

Examples

“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.”
“Writing of the L1 is performed one cache line at a time and can be 64 bytes or 32 bytes.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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