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Lightning CSS
Lightning CSS is an extremely fast CSS parser, transformer, bundler, and minifier written in Rust, used by Vite, Tailwind CSS, and Parcel, and claimed to be over 100 times faster than CSSnano.
Lightning detection network
A lightning detection network is a system of ground-based radio sensors that locates lightning strokes by their electromagnetic signals, computing position, time, and peak current.
Lightning in a Bottle 2017
Lightning in a Bottle 2017 (LIB 2017) was the twelfth edition of the California transformational music and arts festival, held May 2017 at Lake San Antonio.
Lightning in a Bottle 2026
Lightning in a Bottle 2026 was the May 20–24, 2026 edition of the transformational music and arts festival in Southern California, which sold out its 30,000-person capacity.
Lightning mapping
Lightning mapping is a set of observational techniques that locate VHF radiation sources from lightning discharges in three dimensions and time, using networks of GPS-synchronized radio receivers.
Lightning McQueen
Lightning McQueen (Rayo McQueen, ライトニング・マックィーン) is Pixar's anthropomorphic stock car, #95, voiced by Owen Wilson in Cars (2006), Cars 2, and Cars 3; an original NASCAR/Corvette/Viper-influenced design named for animator Glenn McQueen.
Lightning Memory-Mapped Database
Lightning Memory-Mapped Database (LMDB) is an embedded key-value database library in C, developed for the OpenLDAP Project by Howard Chu and presented at the 2011 LDAP conference.
Lightning Network
The Lightning Network is a layer-2 payment protocol for Bitcoin in which participants open payment channels and route payments off-chain; it was proposed in 2016 and launched on mainnet in 2018.
Lightning records
Lightning records are officially evaluated extreme lightning events, certified by the World Meteorological Organization and Guinness World Records, including an 829 km flash across the United States in 2017.
Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII
Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII (ライトニング リターンズ) is Square Enix's 2013 action RPG concluding the FFXIII saga; Lightning alone fights with a Schemata system under a 13-day doomsday clock, on PS3, Xbox 360, and Steam.
Lightning Ridge, New South Wales
Lightning Ridge is a small opal-mining town in outback northern New South Wales, Australia, 72 km north of Walgett and the principal world source of fine black opal.
Lightning rod
The lightning rod, also called a lightning conductor or Franklin rod, is a metal device that safely conducts lightning strikes to ground, invented by Benjamin Franklin in 1750.
Lightning strike
A lightning strike is an electrical discharge between a cloud and the ground, carrying currents of tens of thousands of amperes for a fraction of a second.
LightOn
LightOn is a French AI company founded in Paris in 2016 that builds enterprise document-understanding technology, including the Paradigm generative AI platform and open-weight retrieval models.
LightPath Technologies
LightPath Technologies is an American optics and photonics manufacturer in Orlando, Florida, known for its BlackDiamond germanium-free infrared glass and for shifting from optical components toward infrared imaging systems for defense customers.
Lightricks
Lightricks is an Israeli content-creation technology company founded in Jerusalem in 2013, best known for the Facetune photo-editing app and its LTX Studio AI filmmaking platform.
Lights (musician)
Lights (Valerie Anne Poxleitner, born 1987) is a Canadian electropop singer-songwriter from Toronto, a four-time JUNO winner whose albums run from The Listening (2009) to the comic-accompanied Skin&Earth and 2025's A6.
Lights Out
Lights Out is a 1995 Tiger Electronics 5×5 handheld toggle puzzle (earlier XL-25, 1983) where pressing a button flips it and its orthogonal neighbors; solvable via GF(2) linear algebra, with only a quarter of configurations solvable.
Lights Out (2016 film)
Lights Out is a 2016 American supernatural horror film directed by David F. Sandberg in his feature debut, starring Teresa Palmer and Maria Bello as a family terrorized by a figure that attacks only in darkness.
Lightsaber
Lightsaber: the fictional energy-bladed sword of the Jedi and Sith in Star Wars, created by George Lucas, powered in canon by kyber crystals; real physics deems it implausible, and screen-used props sell for millions.
LightSail
LightSail is a crowdfunded solar sail project of The Planetary Society. LightSail 1 tested sail deployment in 2015, and LightSail 2 demonstrated controlled solar sailing in Earth orbit in 2019.
LightSkinKeisha
LightSkinKeisha, real name Samantha Deshaun, is an American rapper and actress from Atlanta who went viral on social media and signed with Hitco Entertainment in 2018.
Lightsource bp
Lightsource bp is a global independent power producer that develops utility-scale solar, wind, and battery storage projects, founded in London in 2010 and fully acquired by BP in 2024.
Lightspeed China Partners
Lightspeed China Partners (光速中国) is a Shanghai-headquartered venture capital firm founded in 2011 by James Mi, known for early bets on Meituan, Pinduoduo, and Hesai.
Lightspeed Commerce
Lightspeed Commerce is a Canadian commerce technology company headquartered in Montreal, founded by Dax Dasilva in 2005, selling point-of-sale software, payments, and financial services to over 100 countries.
LightSpeed Studios
LightSpeed Studios, formerly Lightspeed & Quantum Studios Group, is a Tencent video game studio group founded in 2008 in Shenzhen, best known for PUBG MOBILE.
Lightstick protests
Lightstick protests (eungwonbong siwi) are South Korean demonstrations, from December 2024 against Yoon Suk Yeol's martial law, where K-pop concert light sticks replaced candlelight vigil candles as symbols of nonviolent pro-democracy protest.
Lightvessel
A lightvessel, also called a lightship or lightboat, is a ship anchored at sea to mark hazards as an aid to navigation where a lighthouse cannot be built.
Lightwave electronics
Lightwave electronics is an emerging field in which intense optical light waves steer electron motion on femtosecond to attosecond timescales, aiming at petahertz processing speeds.
Lightweight
Lightweight, a combat sports weight class: 135 lb (61.2 kg) limit in professional boxing, 155 lb in UFC/MMA. Created 1738 by Jack Broughton at 160 lb; boxing limit set at 135 lb in 1909.