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Ladder
A ladder is a portable or fixed structure of rails joined by rungs for climbing between levels, with step ladders that self-support and extension ladders that lean.
Ladder 49
Ladder 49 is a 2004 American drama directed by Jay Russell, starring Joaquin Phoenix as a Baltimore firefighter trapped in a warehouse fire while John Travolta coordinates his rescue.
Ladder graph
The ladder graph Lₙ is the Cartesian product of two path graphs, P₂ and Pₙ, forming two rails joined by n rungs like a ladder.
Ladder line
Ladder line, also called twinlead or open-wire line, is a balanced radio-frequency transmission line of two parallel conductors, a low-loss feed line popular for HF amateur radio antennas.
Ladder logic
Ladder logic, standardized as Ladder Diagram, is a graphical programming language for programmable logic controllers, first used in 1969 to support the Modicon 084 PLC.
Ladder operator
A ladder operator, also called a raising and lowering operator, is a quantum-mechanics operator that shifts an eigenstate's eigenvalue by a fixed step, solving spectra by algebra alone.
Ladder paradox
The ladder paradox, also called the barn-pole paradox, is a relativity thought experiment where a ladder seems to fit a barn in one frame but not another, resolved by the relativity of simultaneity.
Laddu (लड्डू)
Laddu (लड्डू, also ladoo, laddoo) is a round Indian sweet defined by shape, not ingredients; besan, boondi, motichoor, and other varieties, with a history from Harappan food balls and the medicinal ladduka of the Sushruta Samhita.
LADEE
LADEE (Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer) was a NASA robotic lunar orbiter that studied the Moon's thin atmosphere and dust, and demonstrated laser communication from lunar orbit.
Ladera este
Ladera este is a 1969 poetry collection by the Mexican writer Octavio Paz, composed between 1962 and 1968 during his service as Mexico's ambassador to India and closing with the long poem Blanco.
Ladi Delano
Ladi Delano, born in 1982, is a British-Nigerian entrepreneur who co-founded and co-leads Moove, the mobility fintech that reached a $2.1 billion valuation in 2026.
Ladice
Ladice (Greek Λαδίκη) was a princess of Cyrene who married the Egyptian pharaoh Amasis II in the third quarter of the 6th century BC as part of an alliance between Egypt and Cyrene.
Ladies and Gentlemen, Brian Mulroney
Ladies and Gentlemen, Brian Mulroney (Mesdames et Messieurs, Brian Mulroney) is Matthew Rankin's 2026 NFB archival collage documentary on Brian Mulroney's rise from the 1976 PC leadership race to his 1984 election, which won TIFF's Midnight Madness People's Choice Award.
Ladies First (2026 film)
Ladies First (2026) is a Netflix satirical comedy directed by Thea Sharrock, starring Sacha Baron Cohen and Rosamund Pike, adapting the French film I Am Not an Easy Man; released May 22, 2026, it scored 26% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Ladies in Black (film)
Ladies in Black (2018) is an Australian comedy-drama feature directed by Bruce Beresford, adapted with Sue Milliken from Madeleine St John's 1993 novel The Women in Black, about a 1959 Sydney department store schoolgirl; it earned $12.02 million and ten AACTA nominations.
Ladies in Black (TV series)
Ladies in Black is a 2024 Australian drama set in Sydney in 1961. It follows women working in a department store during a time of social change.
Ladies in Lavender
Ladies in Lavender is a 2004 British drama, Charles Dance's directorial debut adapted from a William J. Locke short story, starring Judi Dench and Maggie Smith as Cornish sisters who nurse a shipwrecked Polish violinist (Daniel Brühl) in 1936.
Ladies of Llangollen
Ladies of Llangollen: Lady Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby, Anglo-Irish women who eloped in 1778 and lived together nearly fifty years at Plas Newydd, Wales, as a celebrated same-sex couple.
Ladies of the Canyon (album)
Ladies of the Canyon, Joni Mitchell's third studio album (Reprise, 1970), a self-produced set of twelve originals including Big Yellow Taxi, Woodstock, and The Circle Game, recorded in Laurel Canyon; UK No. 8, US No. 27, platinum-certified.
Ladies Professional Racquetball Tour
Ladies Professional Racquetball Tour (LPRT), the official governing body of women's professional racquetball, formed 2012 under T. J. Baumbaugh after the WIRT and LPRA; Tier 1 events, best-of-five matches to 11 points, champions include Paola Longoria and Maria Jose Vargas.
Ladies Room (Mad Men)
"Ladies Room" is Mad Men season 1 episode 2 (2007), written by Matthew Weiner, directed by Alan Taylor, focusing on Betty Draper's numb hands and psychiatrist sessions and Peggy Olson's office hazing.
Ladies vs Gentlemen
Ladies vs Gentlemen (Ladies v/s Gentlemen) is an Indian interactive opinion-poll game show on Flipkart Video, hosted by Riteish and Genelia Deshmukh; season 1 launched 18 November 2020 and season 2 on 16 October 2021, with celebrity panelists guessing India's percentage answers to gender-debate questions for prizes.
Ladies vs Ricky Bahl
Ladies vs Ricky Bahl (लेडिज वर्सेज रिक्की बहल) is a 2011 Yash Raj Films Hindi romantic comedy directed by Maneesh Sharma, starring Ranveer Singh as a con man and Anushka Sharma; released 9 December 2011.
Ladies' Code (레이디스 코드)
Ladies' Code (레이디스 코드), also written LADIES' CODE, is a Polaris Entertainment K-pop girl group that debuted in 2013 with five members, won a Gaon Chart new artist award, lost EunB and RiSe in a 2014 accident, and continued as a trio.
Ladilla Rusa
Ladilla Rusa is a Spanish electropop and tecno-rumba duo formed in 2017 in Montcada i Reixac, near Barcelona, by journalists Tania Lozano and Víctor F. Clares.
Ladin language
Ladin (ISO 639-3 lld) is a Rhaeto-Romance language of five Dolomite valleys in South Tyrol, Trentino, and Veneto, about 30,000 speakers, endangered per UNESCO, with the Ladin Dolomitan standard.
Ladin literature
Ladin literature is the body of writing in Ladin, a Rhaeto-Romance language spoken by about 30,000 people in five Dolomite valleys of northern Italy, beginning with 17th-century documents.
Ladino literature
Ladino literature is the writing of Sephardic Jews in Ladino (Judeo-Spanish), spanning sacred translations, rabbinic works, and secular genres from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.
Ladislas J. Meduna
Ladislas J. Meduna (László Meduna, 1896–1964) was a Hungarian-American neurologist who introduced convulsive therapy in 1934, inducing seizures with camphor and cardiazol to treat schizophrenia.
Ladislaus I of Hungary
Ladislaus I of Hungary (I. Szent László) was king of Hungary from 1077 to 1095, an Árpád king who stabilized the kingdom, conquered Croatia, and was canonized in 1192.