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LCVP (United States)
The Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel (LCVP), widely known as the Higgins boat, was an American wooden landing craft that carried 36 troops ashore, used from D-Day to Korea.
LDAC
LDAC is a proprietary audio coding technology developed by Sony for streaming high-resolution audio over Bluetooth. It transmits about three times the data of the standard SBC codec, allowing 96 kHz/24-bit playback.
LDACS
LDACS (L-band Digital Aeronautical Communication System) is a broadband terrestrial air-ground data link for civil aviation in the L-band around 1 GHz, offering far greater capacity than the current VDLm2 link.
LDHB
LDHB (lactate dehydrogenase B, LDH-H) is a human gene at 12p12.1 encoding the H subunit of lactate dehydrogenase, EC 1.1.1.27, which interconverts pyruvate and lactate with NADH/NAD+; mutations cause asymptomatic LDH-B deficiency.
LDIR-CT-AD trial
LDIR-CT-AD (NCT03597360), a 2019 Canadian single-arm pilot trial treating four advanced Alzheimer's dementia patients with repeated 40 mGy brain CT scans, reporting qualitative cognitive improvements and minor quantitative gains.
LDL apheresis
LDL apheresis is an extracorporeal treatment that removes LDL cholesterol and lipoprotein(a) from the blood, used for severe familial hypercholesterolemia uncontrolled by drugs, with sessions repeated weekly or biweekly.
LDLC Arena
LDLC Arena: 16,000-seat indoor arena in Décines-Charpieu (Lyon), opened 23 November 2023 at OL Vallée; hosts ASVEL EuroLeague basketball, concerts, ATP 250 tennis, and 2030 Olympics ice hockey plans.
LDMOS
LDMOS, or laterally diffused metal oxide semiconductor, is a power MOSFET structure and the dominant silicon technology for high-power RF amplifiers in cellular base stations below 3 GHz.
LDMOS power amplifier
An LDMOS power amplifier is a radio-frequency power amplifier built around a laterally diffused MOSFET transistor, the standard device for cellular base stations and broadcast transmitters since the 1990s.
LDN 1157
LDN 1157, also written L1157, is a dark molecular cloud in Cepheus whose embedded protostar drives a bipolar outflow, making it a widely used laboratory for shock chemistry.
LDN 1448
LDN 1448, also written L1448, is a dark nebula at the western end of the Perseus molecular complex, an active site of low-mass star formation.
LDN 1495
LDN 1495, also written L1495 or Lynds 1495, is a large dark nebula in the Taurus Molecular Cloud about 450 light years away, a heavily studied star-forming filament.
LDN 1527
LDN 1527 is a dark nebula in the Taurus molecular cloud, about 460 light-years away, hosting the protostar L1527 IRS, imaged by JWST in 2022.
LDN 1544
LDN 1544 (also L1544) is a dark nebula in Taurus, in the Taurus Molecular Cloud, containing one of astronomy's most studied pre-stellar cores about to form a star.
LDN 1551
LDN 1551 is a dark molecular cloud in Taurus about 160 parsecs away, where the protostar L1551 IRS 5 hosted the first recognized bipolar molecular outflow, detected in 1980.
LDN 1630
LDN 1630, also written Lynds 1630, is a large dark nebula in Orion, cataloged by Beverly T. Lynds in 1962 and identical to the Orion B molecular cloud.
LDN 1641
LDN 1641, also written Lynds 1641 or L1641, is a dark molecular cloud in Orion forming the southern part of the Orion A molecular cloud.
LDR2402
LDR2402 is an investigational small interfering RNA drug for mild to moderate hypertension, developed by Leaderna Therapeutics, a subsidiary of China's HitGen, now in phase 2.
Le Baiser de l'hôtel de ville
Le Baiser de l'hôtel de ville (The Kiss by the Hôtel de Ville) is a 1950 photograph by Robert Doisneau of a couple kissing outside Paris's city hall.
Le Banana Split (music)
"Le Banana Split" is a 1979 French-language pop single by 17-year-old Lio, her debut, written by Jacques Duvall and Jay Alanski, which reached number one in France in 1980.
Le Barrou
Le Barrou is the oldest quarter of Sète in southern France, on the étang de Thau, with a 1st-century Roman villa noted for mosaics and wine production.
Le Bateau ivre
Le Bateau ivre ("The Drunken Boat") is a hundred-line 1871 poem by Arthur Rimbaud in which a freed boat narrates a hallucinatory voyage; it is his most famous poem.
Le Bernardin
Le Bernardin: French seafood restaurant founded in Paris in 1972 by Maguy and Gilbert Le Coze, opened in New York in 1986; three Michelin stars since 2005, six four-star New York Times reviews, chef Eric Ripert since 1994.
Le Bonheur
Le Bonheur (Happiness) is Agnès Varda's 1965 French drama about carpenter François, his wife Thérèse, and his mistress Émilie; it won the 1965 Prix Louis-Delluc and Berlin Silver Bear and is read as a feminist visual-irony film.
Le Boucher
Le Boucher (The Butcher) is a 1970 French-Italian thriller by Claude Chabrol, starring Stéphane Audran and Jean Yanne, about a Périgord schoolmistress and a butcher-veteran linked to village knife murders.
Le Bourgeois gentilhomme
Le Bourgeois gentilhomme is Molière's five-act prose comédie-ballet with music by Lully, premiered 14 October 1670 at Chambord for Louis XIV. It satirizes bourgeois M. Jourdain's bid for nobility via the mamamouchi Turkish ceremony and Ballet des nations.
Le brothers
Le brothers: Andy Le and Brian Le, Vietnamese American self-taught martial artists and stunt performers from Orange County, founders of Martial Club; fight choreographers of Everything Everywhere All at Once, Andy played Death Dealer in Shang-Chi.
Le Carrozze-Gravetta
Le Carrozze-Gravetta, archaeological site at Lavello, Potenza, Basilicata: a Daunian sanctuary of the 4th century BCE on the Gravetta hill with tufa naiskos, Doric columns, and 37,000-liter cisterns, plus Canosan-type chamber tombs in the Carrozze valley.
Le Castella
Le Castella is a Calabrian seaside village and Aragonese fortress in Isola di Capo Rizzuto, province of Crotone, on an islet of the Gulf of Squillace; recorded from 1154, rebuilt by Andrea Carafa 1510–1526, linked to admiral Uluç Alì, reopened in 2026.
Le Castle Vania
Le Castle Vania is the electronic music project of Dylan Eiland, an Atlanta-based DJ and producer known for electro house and composing for the John Wick films.