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A '''lax''' is a [[salmon]].
'''LAX''' as an acronym most commonly refers to [[Los Angeles International Airport]] in Southern California, United States
'''LAX''' or '''Lax''' may also refer to:
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==Places==
=== Within Los Angeles ===
* [[Union Station (Los Angeles)]], Los Angeles' main train depot, whose Amtrak station code is "LAX"
* The [[Port of Los Angeles]], whose port identifier code is "LAX"
=== Other ===
* [[Lax, Switzerland]], a municipality of the canton of Valais
* [[Lax Lake (disambiguation)]]
* [[La Crosse, Wisconsin]], a city on the Mississippi River
==Sports==
* [[Los Angeles Xtreme]], a former American football team
* [[Lacrosse]], a sport
* [[The Latin American Xchange]], a professional wrestling stable
==Media and entertainment==
* [[LAX (album)|''LAX'' (album)]], the third studio album from rapper The Game
* [[LAX (TV series)|''LAX'' (TV series)]], a 2004&ndash;05 television series set in Los Angeles International Airport
* "[[LA X]]", the two-part sixth season 2010 premiere of the television show ''Lost''
* LAX, a night club at [[Luxor Las Vegas]]
* "LAX", a song by the rapper Xzibit from ''[[Weapons of Mass Destruction (album)|Weapons of Mass Destruction]]''
* "LAX", a song by Snoop Dogg featuring Ice Cube from ''[[Tha Blue Carpet Treatment]]''
* "LAX", a song by Big D and the Kids Table on their album ''[[How It Goes]]''
* "LAX", a song by Jake Owen from ''[[American Love]]''
* "LAX", a song by Hawk Nelson from ''[[Crazy Love (Hawk Nelson album)|Crazy Love]]''
* L.A.X., a disco studio act who released two albums on [[Prelude Records]]
==Science and linguistics==
* [[Laxative]], a concoction that loosens the bowels
* [[Lax pair]], a pair of matrices that solve a type of differential equation, named after Peter Lax
* A lax vowel, one that lacks the quality of [[tenseness]]
==People==
* [[Anneli Cahn Lax]] (1922–1999), American mathematician
* [[Benjamin Lax]] (1915–2015), American physicist
* [[Gaspar Lax]] (1487–1560), Spanish mathematician, logician, and philosopher
* [[John Lax]] (1911–2001), American ice hockey player
* [[Peter Lax]] (born 1926), Hungarian-American mathematician
* [[Rick Lax]] (born 1982), American entertainer
* [[L.A.X (musician)]] (born 1993), Nigerian recording artist Damilola Afolabi
==See also==
* [[Laks (disambiguation)]]
* [[Lacs (disambiguation)]]
* [[Laax]], a municipality in the district of Surselva in the Swiss canton of Graubünden
* [[Gravlax]], a Nordic salmon dish
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