LTR

¹

abbreviation for

1. long-term relationship.

ltr.

²

abbreviation for

1. letter.
2. lighter.

LTR

abbreviation for

1. long-term relationship: used in lonely hearts columns and personal advertisements

Example Sentences

In one relatable gesture, The L Word boiled down the unique, interconnected essence of queer social networks: that whether by dalliance or LTR, by fellow hometown gay or elusive IG follow—everybody knows everybody.

From Slate

LTR retrotransposons were distributed unevenly throughout each chromosome.

From Nature

These results show that the different wheat A genomes experienced large-scale structural rearrangements both before and after polyploidization with other genomes, and have experienced independent gain or loss of LTR retrotransposons after the polyploidization event.

From Nature

A customized script was implemented to identify intact LTR/Copia and LTR/Gypsy retrotransposons.

From Nature

Together, these differences may contribute to the larger size of Ta3B in comparison to Tu3, and suggest that amplification of LTR retrotransposons after the divergence of the A and B genomes may be relevant for wheat genome evolution.

From Nature