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Leviathan (Hobbes book)
Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil, is Thomas Hobbes's 1651 political treatise arguing for an absolute sovereign via social contract; famous for the state of nature as a war of all against all, rights of self-defense, and its half-book treatment of religion.
Leviathan (TV series)
Leviathan (リヴァイアサン) is a 2025 Netflix anime, 12 episodes, adapting Scott Westerfeld's steampunk Leviathan trilogy; produced by Studio Orange and Qubic Pictures, directed by Christophe Ferreira, released July 10, 2025.
Leviathan (yacht)
Leviathan is a 111-meter (364 ft) diesel-electric superyacht built by the Dutch shipyard Oceanco, delivered in November 2025 to Valve co-founder Gabe Newell, reportedly costing around $500 million.
Leviathan (Левиафан) (2014 film)
Leviathan (Левиафан), 2014 Russian drama by Andrey Zvyagintsev; a Barents Sea mechanic fights a corrupt mayor's land grab. Cannes Best Screenplay, Golden Globe winner, Oscar nominee.
Leviathan (לִוְיָתָן)
Leviathan (לִוְיָתָן, livyatan) is the biblical sea monster derived from the Ugaritic chaos dragon Lotan, appearing in Job, Psalms, and Isaiah, later Hobbes's symbol of the sovereign state.
Leviathan and the Air-Pump
Leviathan and the Air-Pump is a 1985 book by Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer examining the Hobbes-Boyle dispute over experiment, arguing that solutions to knowledge are solutions to social order.
Leviathan Cave
Leviathan Cave (Grotte de Leviathan) is Kenya's Chyulu Hills lava tube, Africa's longest at about 12.5 km and 470 m deep, discovered 1975 by Jim Simons; a shorter Nevada namesake cave also exists.
Leviathan Gas Field
Leviathan is an offshore natural gas field in the Mediterranean Sea, discovered in 2010. It is the largest gas reservoir in Israel and began production in 2019.
Leviathan Wakes
Leviathan Wakes (2011), first Expanse novel by James S.A. Corey, pen name of Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck, published by Orbit; Holden and Miller investigate the derelict Scopuli, driving the solar system toward war; Hugo and Locus nominee, basis of The Expanse TV series.
Levica and Vesna
Levica–Vesna (L–V), a Slovenian electoral coalition of the left party Levica and the green party Vesna for the March 2026 parliamentary election; won 5.64% and 5 seats, then dissolved in July 2026 after Vesna left the joint parliamentary group.
Levidian LOOP
Levidian LOOP is a modular methane-splitting system by Cambridge company Levidian Nanosystems that uses microwave plasma to crack methane into graphene and hydrogen without carbon dioxide.
Levilactobacillus brevis
Levilactobacillus brevis, formerly Lactobacillus brevis, is a gram-positive, heterofermentative lactic acid bacterium used in silage, sourdough, beer, and wine fermentation, known for GABA production, QPS status since 2007, and probiotic strains.
Levilimab
Levilimab (BCD-089, Ilsira) is a fully human IgG1 monoclonal antibody against the interleukin-6 receptor from Biocad, Russia; approved there in 2020 for severe COVID-19 cytokine release syndrome and studied in rheumatoid arthritis; ATC L04AC25; no US/EU approval.
Levin
Levin (Māori name Taitoko) is a town of about 20,300 in Horowhenua, lower North Island, New Zealand. Founded 1888–89 and named for railway director William Hort Levin; neither Levin nor Taitoko was officially gazetted as of 2018.
Levin August von Bennigsen
Levin August von Bennigsen (Leonty Leontyevich Bennigsen, 1745-1826), Hanoverian-born Russian general; commanded at Pultusk, Eylau, Friedland, Borodino, Tarutino, and Leipzig; made count in 1813.
Levin H. Campbell
Levin H. Campbell, also known as Levin Hicks Campbell, is an American jurist and senior judge of the First Circuit, appointed by Nixon in 1972.
Levine Leichtman Capital Partners
Levine Leichtman Capital Partners is a middle-market private equity firm founded in Los Angeles in 1984 by Arthur Levine and Lauren Leichtman, which has invested about $10.6 billion in roughly 120 companies.
Levirate marriage
Levirate marriage, also called widow inheritance, is the custom whereby a widow marries her deceased husband's brother, keeping her and her children within his family's lineage.
Lévis
Lévis is a city in the Chaudière-Appalaches region of Quebec, Canada, on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River opposite Quebec City, the province's seventh largest.
Levison Wood
Levison Wood, British explorer, author, and TV presenter; Parachute Regiment veteran; walked the Nile in 2013-14 and the Himalayas, Americas, and Arabia in Channel 4 and Discovery series.
Levitated dipole
A levitated dipole is a magnetic confinement concept for fusion plasma in which a freely floating superconducting ring generates the field, proposed by Akira Hasegawa in 1987.
Levitated optomechanics
Levitated optomechanics is the study of light interacting with small particles suspended in vacuum, offering extreme environmental isolation for quantum tests and ultrasensitive force sensing.
Levitating (film)
Levitating (Para Perasuk) is a 2026 Indonesian supernatural drama by Wregas Bhanuteja, his third feature, about a villager training as a trance shaman. It premiered in Sundance 2026's World Cinema Dramatic Competition and opened in Indonesia April 23, 2026, starring Angga Yunanda, Maudy Ayunda, and Anggun.
Levitating (song)
Levitating (song): Dua Lipa nu-disco single from Future Nostalgia, released 27 March 2020 on Warner Records; peaked at No. 2 on the Hot 100, ran 77 weeks, and was Billboard's top song of 2021 despite never reaching No. 1.
Levitation (Hawkwind album)
Levitation (1980) is Hawkwind's eleventh studio album and first for Bronze Records, featuring Ginger Baker on drums with Dave Brock, Huw Lloyd-Langton, Harvey Bainbridge, and Tim Blake; it reached UK number 21 and includes "Who's Gonna Win the War".
Levitation (paranormal)
Levitation, also called metaphysical levitation or aethrobacy, is the claimed rising of a human body without physical support by supernatural means, reported of saints and mediums, though science finds no evidence.
Levite
A Levite (Hebrew Levi, plural Levi'im) is a male Jew of paternal descent from the tribe of Levi, ranked below priests but with duties in Temple and synagogue ritual.
Leviticus (film)
Leviticus (2026) is Adrian Chiarella's Australian queer supernatural horror debut, starring Joe Bird and Stacy Clausen as teenage boys haunted by an entity wearing each other's faces after a conversion-therapy ritual; Sundance premiere, NEON release, 92% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Leviticus 18
Leviticus 18 is a chapter of the Hebrew Bible that prohibits a list of sexual relations, part of the Holiness Code with its parallel, Leviticus 20.
Leviton
Leviton is a privately held American manufacturer of electrical wiring devices, lighting, data networking, and energy management products, founded in New York in 1906 by Evser and Isidor Leviton.