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Late Ramesside Letters
The Late Ramesside Letters are a corpus of over seventy Late Egyptian letters from Thebes, written in the reign of Ramesses XI, around 1099 to 1069 BC.
Late Registration
Late Registration is Kanye West's second studio album, released August 30, 2005 on Roc-A-Fella, co-produced with Jon Brion. It debuted at number one with 860,000 first-week copies, won Grammys including Best Rap Album, and holds a Metascore of 85.
Late Roman army
The late Roman army: military of the Roman Empire from Diocletian and Constantine onward, split into frontier limitanei and mobile comitatenses field armies, legions of about 1,000, an estimated 400,000–600,000 men overall.
Late Shah Jahan Album
The Late Shah Jahan Album was an imperial Mughal album made for the emperor Shah Jahan in about 1650 to 1658, pairing court portraits with calligraphy by Mir ʿAli.
Late Shang
Late Shang (晚商), the Yinxu period of the Shang dynasty, c. 1300–1046 BC at Anyang; defined by oracle bone writing, the Xibeigang royal tombs, chariot burials, and the Great Settlement Shang capital.
Late Shift (film)
Late Shift (Heldin) is a 2025 Swiss-German drama by Petra Volpe starring Leonie Benesch as nurse Floria Lind during one understaffed hospital night shift; Berlinale 2025 premiere, Swiss Oscar submission, 97% on Rotten Tomatoes, Swiss Film Prize winner.
Late Show with David Letterman
Late Show with David Letterman: CBS late-night talk show (1993–2015) hosted by David Letterman at the Ed Sullivan Theater after losing NBC's Tonight job to Jay Leno; over 4,000 episodes, Paul Shaffer's CBS Orchestra, Top Ten List, succeeded by Stephen Colbert.
Late spermatid
Late spermatid: final-stage haploid male germ cell in spermiogenesis, after round and elongating spermatids, with condensed nucleus, assembled flagellum, ceased transcription, Sertoli-cell attachment, and release at spermiation.
Late Spring (晩春)
Late Spring (晩春, Banshun) is Yasujiro Ozu's 1949 Shochiku drama starring Setsuko Hara and Chishu Ryu, first of the Noriko trilogy, about a widowed professor persuading his daughter to marry; Kinema Junpo 1949 first place.
Late syphilis
Late syphilis (ICD-11 1A62), also called tertiary syphilis, is the late phase of Treponema pallidum infection, with gummas, cardiovascular disease, or neurosyphilis appearing 3-15+ years after infection, treated with weekly benzathine penicillin G.
Late Tang Salt Law
The Late Tang Salt Law (榷盐法) was the Tang dynasty's salt monopoly law, begun in 758 by Di Wuqi and reshaped by Liu Yan, supplying half of state revenue.
Late termination of pregnancy
Late termination of pregnancy means induced abortion after 13 weeks (second trimester), using dilation and evacuation or labor induction; complication rates, reasons for delay, access barriers, and WHO policy distinguish it from early abortion.
Late veneer
The late veneer is chondritic meteoritic material that geochemical models add to Earth's mantle after core formation, explaining why highly siderophile elements like platinum remain abundant there.
Late vomiting of pregnancy
Late vomiting of pregnancy: ICD-11 code JA60.2 (ICD-10-CM O21.2, formerly ICD-9-CM 643.2) for excessive vomiting beginning in the second half of pregnancy, after 16 to 22 weeks' gestation, distinct from early hyperemesis gravidarum.
Late-arriving data
Late-arriving data (late data, out-of-order events): records reaching a pipeline after their event-time window was processed. Handled via watermarks, allowed lateness, lookbacks, and Kimball inferred members; differs from duplicates.
Late-night talk show
Late-night talk show: a TV format airing after 11 p.m. with a comedic news monologue, desk interviews, and variety segments. Grew from The Tonight Show (Steve Allen, September 27, 1954); defined by Johnny Carson's 30-year run; politicized via The Daily Show and the Trump era; declining amid streaming-era economics.
Late-onset focal dermal elastosis
Late-onset focal dermal elastosis (LOFDE), also called PXE-like focal dermal elastosis, is a rare acquired skin disorder with 2-5 mm yellowish papules on the neck and flexures, normal elastic fibers in the reticular dermis, and no systemic involvement.
Late-onset junctional epidermolysis bullosa
Late-onset junctional epidermolysis bullosa (JEB-lo, epidermolysis bullosa progressiva) is a rare autosomal recessive COL17A1 subtype of junctional EB with childhood-onset periungual blistering, nail dystrophy, acral lesions, atrophic scarring, and enamel defects.
Late-onset retinal degeneration
Late-onset retinal degeneration (L-ORD, LORD) is a rare autosomal dominant retinal dystrophy caused by C1QTNF5 variants, especially the Scottish S163R founder mutation, causing midlife night blindness, sub-RPE deposits, and vision loss after age 50.
Late-stage 18F-deoxyfluorination
Late-stage 18F-deoxyfluorination is the fluorine-18 replacement of an oxygen-bearing functional group, most often a phenolic hydroxyl, as one of the final steps in synthesizing a PET radiotracer.
Late-stage C–H borylation
Late-stage C–H borylation is a chemical reaction that converts a carbon–hydrogen bond in a complex molecule into a carbon–boron bond, typically with an iridium catalyst.
Late-stage C–H methylation
Late-stage C–H methylation is the direct conversion of a C–H bond in a complex molecule, such as a drug candidate, into a carbon–methyl bond without prefunctionalization.
Late-stage functionalization
Late-stage functionalization (LSF) is a synthetic chemistry strategy that selectively modifies late intermediates or finished complex molecules, such as drug leads, to install new functional groups.
Lateef Olasunkanmi Fagbemi
Lateef Olasunkanmi Fagbemi, born in 1959 in Kwara State, is a Nigerian lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria appointed Attorney General and Minister of Justice by President Tinubu in 2023.
Lateefah Simon
Lateefah Simon is an American Democratic politician, the U.S. Representative from California's 12th congressional district since 2025, after serving on the BART board and winning a MacArthur Fellowship in 2003.
Lateen
The lateen, or Latin sail, is a triangular fore-and-aft sail set on a long angled yard, the principal Mediterranean rig from the early Middle Ages.
Latency (engineering)
Latency in engineering is the time delay between the start of an action and its first observable effect, spanning propagation, transmission, and queuing delays in networks and computing.
Latency (레이턴시) (band)
LATENCY (레이턴시) is a South Korean project girl band under ODDINARY RECORDS, debuted January 8, 2026 with "It Was Love"; members include ex-cignature, ex-LOONA/Loossemble, and guitarist Heeyeon (Fingerstylish).
Latent action models
A latent action model (LAM) infers latent actions between video frames, letting robot policies and world models be pretrained on video without ground-truth action labels.
Latent change score model
A latent change score (LCS) model is a structural equation model that estimates change over time between latent variables measured on repeated occasions, in univariate or bivariate forms.