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LabVIEW
LabVIEW (Laboratory Virtual Instrument Engineering Workbench) is a graphical programming environment and language, called G, developed by National Instruments in 1986 for building test, measurement, and control applications.
Labyrinth
Labyrinth (λαβύρινθος): the mythical maze at Knossos built by Daedalus for King Minos to hold the Minotaur, killed by Theseus with Ariadne's thread; ancient sources also place labyrinths in Egypt and near Gortyn.
Labyrinth (1986 film)
Labyrinth (1986) is a Jim Henson-directed fantasy film, executive produced by George Lucas, starring David Bowie as Jareth and Jennifer Connelly as Sarah; a TriStar box-office failure that became a cult classic.
Labyrinth (2026 film)
Labyrinth (Meikyu no Shiori, 迷宮のしおり) is a 2026 Japanese original anime film, Shoji Kawamori's first feature, about a girl trapped in her smartphone's labyrinth while her digital double SHIORI takes over her life; released January 1, 2026, 115 minutes, Gaga.
Labyrinth (band)
Labyrinth (Labÿrinth), Italian power/progressive metal band from Massa, Tuscany, formed 1991; ten albums including Return to Heaven Denied (1998) and In the Vanishing Echoes of Goodbye (2025); distinct from US band Unified Past.
Labyrinth Fenestration
Labyrinth fenestration, also called fenestration operation, is a historical ear surgery for otosclerosis that created a new window into the lateral semicircular canal, perfected one-stage by Julius Lempert in 1938 and later replaced by stapedectomy.
Labyrinth of Egypt
The Labyrinth of Egypt, or Egyptian Labyrinth, was a vast mortuary complex built by pharaoh Amenemhat III beside his pyramid at Hawara in the Middle Kingdom.
Labyrinth of Passion
Labyrinth of Passion (Laberinto de pasiones) is Pedro Almodóvar's 1982 screwball sex comedy, his second feature, starring Cecilia Roth and Imanol Arias in Madrid during the movida madrileña, with Antonio Banderas's film debut.
Labyrinth seal
A labyrinth seal is a non-contacting mechanical seal that limits fluid leakage between rotating and stationary parts by forcing flow through fins and cavities, common in turbines and compressors.
Labyrinth spillway
A labyrinth spillway is an overflow weir folded into a zigzag or arced shape, giving roughly twice the discharge of a straight weir of the same width.
Labyrinthectomy
Labyrinthectomy is a surgical procedure that removes the inner ear's balance organs to abolish vestibular function, sacrificing all remaining hearing and reserved for ears with nonserviceable hearing.
Labyrinthine dysfunction
Labyrinthine dysfunction (ICD-11 AB36) is impaired function of the inner ear's bony or membranous labyrinth, causing vertigo, nystagmus, dysequilibrium, or hearing loss; causes include labyrinthitis, Ménière's disease, and labyrinthine ischemia via the AICA.
Labyrinthine fistula
Labyrinthine fistula (perilymphatic fistula, ICD-11 AB35, ICD-10 H83.1): an abnormal communication between the inner ear's perilymphatic space and the middle ear, usually at the oval or round window, most often caused by cholesteatoma erosion or trauma.
Labyrinthitis
Labyrinthitis is acute inflammation of the inner-ear labyrinth, causing prolonged vertigo with sensorineural hearing loss or tinnitus, most often from viral infection and improving within weeks.
Labyrinthodontia
Labyrinthodontia is an obsolete name for a traditional grouping of early tetrapods, mostly large amphibian-grade animals from the late Devonian to the Triassic, defined by maze-like tooth infolding.
Labyrinthos
Labyrinthos (λαβύρινθος) is the Greek word behind "labyrinth", naming intricate ancient buildings: the mythical Cretan Labyrinth of Minos, identified with Knossos or the Gortyn caves, and the real mortuary temple of Amenemhat III at Hawara, Egypt.
Labyrinths
Labyrinths is the first collected edition of the poetry of the Nigerian poet Christopher Okigbo, published by Heinemann in 1971, containing the sequence Path of Thunder.
Lac (resin)
Lac is a resin secreted by the female lac insect Kerria lacca (Laccifer lacca) on host trees; refined as seedlac and shellac. India supplies 50-60% of world output; used in enteric coatings, confectioner's glaze, and wood finishes.
Lac de Serre-Ponçon
Lac de Serre-Ponçon is a large artificial reservoir in the French Alps, built by EDF between 1955 and 1961 and the largest artificial lake in France.
Lac Fitri
Lac Fitri (Lake Fitri) is a permanent freshwater Sahelian lake in Batha region, central Chad, fed by the seasonal Batha river; a Ramsar site and biosphere reserve (195,000 ha) supporting fishing, flood-recession farming, and dry-season transhumant grazing.
LAC L-134/33 trial
LAC L-134/33 (NCT07652827) is a completed randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled pilot trial by Universidad de Concepción, Chile, testing a 12-week daily capsule of Lacticaseibacillus rhamnosus L-134 and Limosilactobacillus fermentum L-33 in 22 adults with lactose intolerance and intestinal methanogenic overgrowth.
Lạc Long Quân and Âu Cơ
Lạc Long Quân and Âu Cơ are the dragon lord and mountain fairy at the heart of Vietnam's national origin myth, whose hundred sons split between sea and highlands.
Lac operon
Lac operon (lactose operon) of Escherichia coli: lacZYA genes for lactose use, LacI repressor, allolactose inducer, cAMP-CAP activation, catabolite repression, and bistable induction; paradigm of gene regulation.
Lac Region
Lac Region (Lac Province), Chad: lakeshore province with capital Bol, epicenter of the Boko Haram insurgency and Chad's largest internal displacement crisis, with 262,106 displaced across 293 sites as of June 2024.
Lac repressor
Lac repressor (LacI), encoded by lacI in E. coli, is the tetrameric 155 kDa protein that shuts off the lac operon by binding the operator; allolactose or IPTG induces transcription by reducing its DNA affinity.
Lac Saint-Pierre Biosphere Reserve
Lac Saint-Pierre Biosphere Reserve (Réserve mondiale de la biosphère du Lac-Saint-Pierre), UNESCO biosphere reserve in Quebec, Canada, designated 2000; 739,401 ha around a St Lawrence fluvial lake, Ramsar site since 1998, North America's largest heronry.
Lac-Mégantic rail accident
The Lac-Mégantic rail accident was a 2013 disaster in Quebec, when an unattended Montreal, Maine & Atlantic freight train carrying crude oil rolled downhill, derailed, and killed 47 people.
Lac-Mégantic rail disaster
The Lac-Mégantic rail disaster, also called the Lac-Mégantic derailment, was a runaway freight train carrying crude oil that derailed, burned, and exploded in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, on 6 July 2013, killing 47 people.
Lacaille 9352
Lacaille 9352, also known as GJ 887, is a red dwarf star in Piscis Austrinus about 10.7 light-years away, the brightest red dwarf in the sky.
Lacanianism
Lacanianism is the psychoanalytic school founded by Jacques Lacan (1901–1981), rereading Freud through structural linguistics: the unconscious structured like a language, the Imaginary-Symbolic-Real registers, objet petit a, and institutions such as the École Freudienne de Paris.