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This has a number of meanings in the computer world.

1. An Acronym for Library Of Congress.

This is a unit of storage capacity. For example - "our highspeed link could transfer 3 library of congresses [sic? in 3.5 seconds".

2. A field in the DNS system for location.

$ host -t LOC waikato.ac.nz waikato.ac.nz. LOC 37 48 30.000 S 175 17 36.000 E 66.00m 3000m 30m 10m

xtraceroute(1) will use these records if it can find them. Unfortunately not many sites use them yet.

3 An Acronym for Lines Of Code