Lax

A lax is a salmon.

LAX or Lax may also refer to:

Place

• Los Angeles International Airport, whose IATA airport code is "LAX"
• Los Angeles Union Station, Los Angeles' main train depot, whose Amtrak station code is "LAX"
• The Port of Los Angeles, whose port identifier code is "LAX"
• 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), the third studio album from rapper The Game
• LAX (TV series), a 2004–05 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
• "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
• 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 type of differential equation a pair of matrices that solve a 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
• 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