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Levelland, TX Micro Area
Levelland, TX Micro Area (geoId/C30220) is a micropolitan statistical area around Levelland, Hockley County seat, west Texas; 21,495 residents in 2022, founded as Hockley City by C.W. Post in 1912.
Levellers
The Levellers were an English Civil War political movement (1645–1649), led by John Lilburne, Richard Overton, and William Walwyn, campaigning for the Agreement of the People, a wider franchise, legal equality, and free trade; distinct from the Diggers or True Levellers.
Levellers (band)
Levellers: English folk rock band formed in Brighton in 1988; fiddle-led, punk-informed folk-rock. Albums Levelling the Land, Levellers (UK no. 2), Zeitgeist (UK no. 1); 14 Top 40 singles; headlined Glastonbury 1994; founded Beautiful Days festival.
Levelling (surveying)
Levelling is a surveying method that measures height differences between points using a level establishing a horizontal line of sight and a graduated staff read against it.
Levels (Avicii song)
Levels is a 2011 progressive house track by Swedish DJ Avicii sampling Etta James's "Something's Got a Hold on Me"; a No. 1 US/UK dance hit, four million copies sold, and Tomorrowland's voted greatest festival anthem.
Levels (film)
Levels is a 2024 Canadian science fiction thriller, the directorial debut of Adam Stern, starring Cara Gee and Peter Mooney in a story set 50 years in the future.
LevelTen Energy
LevelTen Energy is a Seattle-based company, founded by Bryce Smith in 2016, that operates a marketplace connecting corporate buyers with wind, solar, and storage projects through power purchase agreements.
Leven Rambin
Leven Alice Rambin is an American actress, born in 1990 in Houston, Texas, known for dual roles on All My Children and as Glimmer in The Hunger Games (2012).
Levenberg–Marquardt algorithm
The Levenberg–Marquardt algorithm, also known as the Levenberg–Marquardt method or damped least squares, is an iterative numerical method for nonlinear least squares that interpolates between Gauss–Newton and gradient descent.
Levene's test
Levene's test is a statistical test of whether several independent samples come from populations with equal variances, proposed by Howard Levene in 1960 and used to check an assumption of ANOVA.
Levenshtein distance
Levenshtein distance, also called edit distance, is a string metric counting the minimum single-symbol insertions, deletions, or substitutions needed to transform one string into another.
Levent Alpöge
Levent Alpöge is an American–Turkish number theorist known for results on elliptic curves and a negative solution of Hilbert's tenth problem over rings of integers.
Levent Yüksel
Levent Yüksel is a Turkish pop singer born in Antalya in 1964, whose 1990s hits "Medcezir", "Tuana", "Kadınım", and "Zalim" were written or produced by Sezen Aksu.
Levente Hegedus
Levente Hegedus (Hegedüs Levente, b. 2004) is a Hungarian ice hockey goaltender from Székesfehérvár; Youth Olympic 3-on-3 gold medalist 2020, USPHL champion, now with FEHA19/Fehérvár AV19 and Hungary's national team.
Levente Vitos
Levente Vitos is a computational materials physicist, professor at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, who created the EMTO-CPA method making first-principles simulation of random alloys, steels, and high-entropy alloys practical.
Lever
A lever is a simple machine consisting of a rigid bar that pivots on a fulcrum to multiply force, with examples including crowbars, seesaws, and wheelbarrows.
Lever action
The lever action is a repeating firearm action in which a lever around the trigger guard cycles the breech, ejecting the spent round and chambering a fresh one.
Lever Brothers
Lever Brothers was a British soap and consumer-goods manufacturer founded by William Lever, whose Sunlight soap created the branded soap market before the 1929 merger forming Unilever.
Lever escapement
The lever escapement is a detached escapement for clocks and watches, attributed to English watchmaker Thomas Mudge around 1754 and still standard in most mechanical watches.
Lever House
Lever House is a 1952 office skyscraper at 390 Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, designed by Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill as Lever Brothers' American headquarters.
Leverage (American TV series)
Leverage is an American TNT crime drama (2008–2012, five seasons, 77 episodes) created by John Rogers and Chris Downey with Dean Devlin, starring Timothy Hutton as Nathan Ford leading a Robin Hood team of thieves, later revived as Leverage: Redemption (2021–2025).
Leverage (finance)
Leverage, or financial leverage, is the use of borrowed funds or fixed-cost obligations to magnify gains and losses on an asset, measured by ratios such as debt-to-equity.
Leverage (statistics)
Leverage, in statistics, measures how far an observation's independent-variable values lie from the center of the others in a regression, indicating its potential to move the fitted line.
Leverage (레버리지) (South Korean TV series)
Leverage (레버리지: 사기조작단) is a 2019 TV Chosun Korean remake of the US series Leverage (TNT, 2008-2012): 16 episodes, Oct 13-Dec 8 2019, Sundays 21:30, directed by Nam Ki-hoon, starring Lee Dong-gun, Jeon Hye-bin, Kim Sae-ron, Kim Kwon, Yeo Hoe-hyun.
Leverage cycle
A leverage cycle is a recurring pattern in which leverage rises too high in booms and falls too low in crises, driving asset prices up and then down.
Leverage ratio (banking)
The leverage ratio in banking is a capital requirement dividing a bank's Tier 1 capital by its total exposures without risk weighting, with a 3% Basel III minimum.
Leverage: Redemption
Leverage: Redemption, sequel to Leverage, is an American heist comedy-drama (2021–2025) on IMDb TV/Freevee and Prime Video, starring Gina Bellman, Noah Wyle, and Beth Riesgraf; canceled after three seasons and 39 episodes.
Leveraged buyout
A leveraged buyout, also known as a leveraged takeover or highly-leveraged transaction, is the acquisition of a company financed largely with debt, typically serviced from the target's cash flows.
Leveraged buyout of Electronic Arts
The leveraged buyout of Electronic Arts was the $55 billion take-private acquisition of the video game publisher by Saudi Arabia's PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners, completed in 2026.
Leverett Saltonstall
Leverett Saltonstall (1892-1979), "Salty," Republican: 57th governor of Massachusetts 1939-1945 and U.S. senator 1945-1967; Republican whip, Armed Services chairman, and Senate Republican Conference chairman; distinct from his great-grandfather Leverett Saltonstall (1783-1845), Salem's first mayor.