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Headquarters vs Langley - What's the difference?

headquarters | langley |

As nouns the difference between headquarters and langley

is that headquarters is the military installation from which troops are commanded and orders are issued; the military unit consisting of a commander and his support staff while langley is a unit of heat transmission in the CGS system of units. It is equivalent to 41,840 J/m² in SI units. Symbol: Ly.

As a proper noun Langley is

an English surname.

headquarters

English

Noun

(headquarters)
  • The military installation from which troops are commanded and orders are issued; the military unit consisting of a commander and his support staff.
  • The center of an organization's operations or administration.
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  • A place of concentrated activity or influence.
  • Synonyms

    * HQ, * head office

    langley

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • An English surname.
  • An unincorporated community in the census-designated place of McLean in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States.
  • A metronym for the Central Intelligence Agency, whose headquarters is located in Langley, Virginia.
  • A district municipality in southwestern British Columbia, Canada.
  • A town in England.
  • A lunar crater located close to the northwestern limb of the Moon.
  • Derived terms

    * Langley extrapolation English surnames from Old English