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Lineman (2024 multilingual film)

Lineman (ಲೈನ್‌ಮ್ಯಾನ್) is a 2024 Kannada-Telugu bilingual comedy-drama directed by V Raghu Shastry, starring Thrigun as lineman Nata; released 22 March 2024, 121 minutes, U certificate, Purple Rock Entertainers, later on Amazon Prime Video.

Lineman (gridiron football)

Lineman (gridiron football): a player on the forward line, offensive (center, guards, tackles) or defensive (down linemen, ends, tackles). Five-man offensive line, ineligible receivers, zone vs man blocking, ~315 lb NFL average.

LineMOD dataset

LineMOD is a benchmark dataset of RGB-D images with ground-truth 6D object poses, introduced in 2012 by Stefan Hinterstoisser and colleagues for detecting texture-less objects in cluttered scenes.

Linen

Linen is a textile woven from the bast fibers of flax (Linum usitatissimum), one of the oldest textile fibers; the EU grows 70% of flax, and linen shows lower water and carbon impacts than cotton.

LINER

A LINER, or low-ionization nuclear emission-line region, is a class of galaxy nucleus first described by Tim Heckman in 1980 and found in about 30% of nearby galaxies.

Linerboard

Linerboard is a grade of containerboard used as the outer and inner facing sheets of corrugated shipping boxes, made as strong virgin kraftliner or economical recycled testliner.

Linerixibat

Linerixibat (GSK2330672, Lynavoy) is an ileal bile acid transporter inhibitor for cholestatic pruritus in primary biliary cholangitis; approved in the US (2026) and UK, positive CHMP opinion, 40 mg twice daily, main side effect diarrhea.

Lines of Action

Lines of Action (LOA), Claude Soucie's 1960s connection game published in Sid Sackson's A Gamut of Games: 8×8 board, 12 pieces a side, moves exactly as many squares as pieces on the line, win by connecting all pieces.

Lines of Torres Vedras

Lines of Torres Vedras (Linhas de Torres Vedras): fortified defensive lines built 1809-1810 north of Lisbon by Wellington against Napoleon's armies; 152 works, 600 guns, 85 km; Masséna's 1810 invasion halted.

LineScout

LineScout is a teleoperated inspection robot developed by Hydro-Québec's research institute in Quebec, introduced in 2006 to service live high-voltage transmission lines while they remain energized.

LineShine

LineShine (灵晟, Língshèng) is an all-CPU exascale supercomputer at the National Supercomputing Centre in Shenzhen, China, which debuted at number one on the TOP500 in June 2026.

Linetta Wilson

Linetta Annice Wilson (born 1967, Pasadena, California) is an American sprinter-hurdler, 1987 NCAA 400m hurdles champion for Nebraska, and 1996 Atlanta Olympic gold medalist in the 4x400 m relay as a heat runner.

Lineup Test Center

Lineup Test Center, Corralejo, Fuerteventura: water sports test center, school, and shop by Line Up Watersports S.L. (founded 2010) offering kite, surf, SUP, wing, and foil rentals with unlimited gear swaps, Naish/F-One/Firewire distribution, and test-and-buy discounts.

Lineus longissimus

Lineus longissimus, the bootlace worm, is a European ribbon worm (Nemertea) from Iceland to the Baltic, typically 5-15 m long, with a record 55 m specimen from St Andrews in 1864, and toxic mucus containing tetrodotoxin-like compounds and nemertide peptides.

Lineweaver–Burk plot

Lineweaver–Burk (double-reciprocal) plot: 1/v versus 1/[S] linearization of Michaelis–Menten kinetics, devised by Lineweaver and Burk (JACS 1934); slope Km/Vmax, y-intercept 1/Vmax, x-intercept −1/Km; now used for visualization, not parameter estimation.

Linewidth enhancement factor

The linewidth enhancement factor, also called the Henry factor, is a dimensionless parameter quantifying amplitude–phase coupling in semiconductor lasers; introduced by Charles H. Henry in 1982, it multiplies laser linewidth by 1 + α².

Linezolid

Linezolid (Zyvox) is the first oxazolidinone antibiotic, FDA-approved April 18, 2000 for Gram-positive infections including MRSA and VRE; also used off-label for MDR-TB and XDR-TB with dose-related toxicity.

Linfen

Linfen (临汾) is a prefecture-level city in southwest Shanxi, China, on the Fen River; ancient Pingyang, seat of Emperor Yao's legendary capital. Coal, coke, and steel hub once ranked among the world's most polluted cities, now undergoing environmental cleanup.

Linfield F.C.

Linfield F.C., Belfast football club founded 1886, plays at Windsor Park in the NIFL Premiership. World-record 57 league titles, record 44 Irish Cups, Big Two rivalry with Glentoran, manager David Healy.

Linford Christie

Linford Christie (born 1960, Jamaica) is a British sprinter, Olympic 100m champion at Barcelona 1992 (9.96) and 1993 world champion (9.87), the first European under 10 seconds, later a coach and TV presenter.

Linformer

Linformer is a Transformer variant introduced by Facebook AI in June 2020 that replaces standard self-attention with a low-rank approximation, reducing quadratic complexity to linear in sequence length.