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LPG

LPG is the initialism of liquefied petroleum gas.

Meaning of liquefied petroleum gas

Noun

liquefied petroleum gas (countable and uncountable, plural liquefied petroleum gases)

  1. A mixture of propane and butane with traces of some other gases, which is kept in a liquid state at high pressure in metal bottles, and used as a source of gas for cooking, heating and as a fuel in internal combustion engines in vehicles.
    • Near-synonym: propane (loosely synonymous in US)
    Synonyms:
    LPG, autogas, propane[Appendix:Glossary

Forms of LPG

pluralLPGs

Questions about LPG

What is LPG the initialism of?
LPG is the initialism of liquefied petroleum gas.

Words near LPG in the dictionary

  1. LPer
  2. LPers
  3. LPEs
  4. lpf
  5. LPFs
  6. LPG
  7. LPGA
  8. LPGs
  9. LPHL
  10. LPHS
  11. LPI

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Adapted from Wiktionary: LPG (page history and authors); liquefied petroleum gas (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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