LEKOK (Lecocq) Charles (1832-1918), the French composer, the master of an operetta: " the Daughter of madam Ango " (1872), "ZHirofle-ZHiroflja" (1874), etc.

LEKONT DE LIL (Leconte de Lisle) Charles (1818-94), the French poet. The chapter of group " Parnassus ", put in pawn started its aesthetics from the collection " Antique poems " (1852). In the collection " Barbarous poems " (1862) asserted beauty of a virgin nature, contrasting its pettiness of modern "barbarians". The collection " Tragical poems " (1884), tragedy "Erinii" (1873).

LE-KREZO (Le Creusot), city in eastern part of France. 44 thousand inhabitants (1982). Metallurgy, heavy engineering, military prom-st.

LEKSEL Andrey Ivanovich (1740-84), the Russian astronomer, the academician Petersburg AN (1771). On a nationality the Swede, with 1768 in Russia. The main transactionses on motion study of comets. Has placed, that Uranus - a planet, probeed his motion, has come to a breeding about existence of even more distant planet.

LEXEME (from grech. lexis - the word, expression), unit of a lexical level of tongue, the word in all set of his lexical values.

LEXICON (from grech. lexikos - relating the word), 1) all set of words, dictionary structure of tongue. 2) Set of words, characteristic for the given version of speech (lexicon household, military, nursery and so forth), this or that stylistic layer (lexicon neutral, colloquial, etc.).

LEKSIKALIZATSIJA, metamorphosis of separate elements of tongue and their combinations into lexemes.

LEXICOGRAPHY (from grech. lexikos - relating the word and... grafija), the section of linguistics engaging the theory and practice of drawing up of dictionarys.

LEKSIKOLOGIJA (from grech. lexikos - relating the word and... logija), the section of linguistics investigator dictionary structure of tongue.

LEXICON (grech. lexikon - the dictionary), 1) the same, that the dictionary (obsolete expression). 2) the Vocabulary, expressions (napr., " a poor lexicon for somebody ").

LEXINGTON (Lexington), city in the USA, pieces. Kentucky. 225 thousand inhabitants (1990, with suburbs of 348 thousand inhabitants). Shopping center of area of a tobacco raising and a breeding horse - breeding. A machine industry, polygraphic, alimentary, a tobacco industry. Universities. Well-known hippodromes, annual exhibitions of horses, trot race. Battles for Lexington and Concord (on April, 19 1775) War for independence in the Sowing began. To America 1775-83.

LEKSOZERO, lake in the west Karelia. 166 êì2, depth up to 34 m. Escapes r. Sula.

The LECTURE (from an armour. lectio - reading), a regular oral exposition of a teaching material, any problem, a scientific, political theme.

LELEVEL (Lelewel) Ioahim (1786-1861), the ideologist of Polish national-liberation motion, the historian. In the season of Polish revolt. 1830-31 chairman of the Patriotic society, the member of the Providing government. In emigration the chief of organization " Pullet Poland ", the participant of international organization Democratic association. Has put in pawn a fundamentals of some auxiliary disciplines in Polish historical science.

LELI (Lely) Peter (1618-80), the English painter. The ceremonial idealized portraits (a series " Comb back beauties ", 1662-65).

LELUAR (Leloir) Luis Federiko (1906-87), the Argentina biochemist. Has placed the mechanism of enzymatic reactions of a biosynthesis oligo-and polysaccharides. The Nobel Prize. (1970).

LELVANI, in hettskoj mythologies htonicheskoe the godhood; one of main godhoods drevnehettskogo a pantheon.

LELJUSHENKO Dmitry Daniilovich (1901-87), the Russian commander, the general (1959), doubly the Hero of Soviet Union (1940, 1945). In the sovetsko-finnish war the commander of a tank brigade. In Great Domestic war commanded a number of armies, with 1944 - tank army. From 1956 lines commanding by a troops IN.

LEM (Lem) Stanislav (r. 1921), the Polish writer. In numerous products in a genre of a scientific - philosophical fantasy, including novels "Astrogators" (1951), " a Diary retrieved in a bath ", "Solaris" (both 1961), " the Voice of the Root " (1968), "Rhinitis" (1976), " the World on ground ", "Fiasco" (both 1987), - acute problems of moral responsibility of the person for consequences of the particular acts. An essay on problems of science about the literature " Philosophy of an event " (1968); filosofsko-sociological probe " the Sum of technology " (1964, the padding issuing 1974), the monography " the Fantasy and futurology " (t. 1-2, 1970).