For Lai we have terms and definitions in 5 topics. The topics are Cellular Networking, Environmental Acronyms, HIV and AIDs, Medieval Music and Poetry.

Lai (Cellular Networking)

GSM Location Area Identity. Composed of MCC + MNC + LAC

Lai (Environmental Acronyms)

Laboratory Audit Inspection

Lai (HIV and AIDs)

A group of closely related HIV isolates that includes the LAV, IIIB, and BRU strains of HIV. Used in HIV vaccine development.

Lai (Medieval Music)

a secular song of the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries in which the characteristics of the stanza (line lengths, number of lines per stanza, rhyme scheme, musical setting) change from strophe to strophe. Machaut wrote twenty-four lais.

Lai (Poetry)

A medieval narrative or lyric poem which flourished in 12th century France, consisting of couplets of five-syllable lines separated by single lines of two syllables. The number of lines and stanzas was not fixed and each stanza had only two rhymes, one rhyme for the couplets and the other for the two-syllable lines. Succeeding stanzas formed their own rhymes.
(See also Lay, Virelay)

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