All articles starting with L

Litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary

The Litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary, or Litany of Loreto, is a Catholic prayer to Mary through about 50 titles, each answered by "pray for us."

Sep 21, 2026

Litao Sun

Litao Sun (孙立涛) is a Chinese materials scientist and professor, and vice president since 2021, at Southeast University in Nanjing, known for in-situ electron microscopy.

Litaratura i mastatstva (Belarusian: Літаратура і мастацтва, "Literature and Art") is a long-running Belarusian newspaper of the creative intelligentsia, a literary periodical alongside Polymia and Maladosts, with a Minsk publishing imprint bearing the same name.

Oct 21, 2026

Litchfield County

Litchfield County, Connecticut: northwestern county established 1751 with Litchfield as county town; largest of the eight counties at 938 square miles; county government abolished 1960, now a geographic name.

Oct 21, 2026

Litchfield National Park (Australia)

Litchfield National Park, Northern Territory: a ~1,500 km2 park 120 km southwest of Darwin, managed by NT Parks and Wildlife Commission, known for Tabletop Range waterfalls, swimming holes, magnetic termite mounds, the Lost City, and free entry versus Kakadu.

Litchi (software)

Litchi is a third-party mobile app for controlling DJI camera drones, best known for its waypoint mission engine, which flies a pre-planned GPS path with per-waypoint camera actions.

Oct 21, 2026

Lite brite

Lite-Brite (Lite Brite), Hasbro's 1967 light-up pegboard art toy invented at Marvin Glass & Associates by Burt Meyer and colleagues, uses colored translucent pegs on a backlit board; National Toy Hall of Fame inductee, 2022.

Lite-On Technology

Lite-On Technology is a Taiwanese electronics manufacturer specializing in power management and optoelectronics. Founded by Raymond Soong in 1975, it became Taiwan's first listed electronics company in 1983.

LiteBIRD

LiteBIRD is a JAXA space mission that will map the polarization of the cosmic microwave background over the entire sky to test cosmic inflation, targeting launch in 2036.

Litecoin

Litecoin (LTC) is an open-source peer-to-peer cryptocurrency created by Charlie Lee in October 2011 as a fork of Bitcoin, with faster 2.5-minute blocks and an 84 million coin supply cap.

LiteLLM

LiteLLM is an open-source AI gateway and Python SDK built by Berri AI, first released in July 2023, that routes application calls to more than 140 large language model providers through one OpenAI-compatible API.

Literacy

Literacy: the ability to understand, use and engage with written texts to function in society. Also called reading literacy; measured by PIAAC, PISA, NAAL; 739 million adults lack basic literacy skills.

Literacy in India

Literacy in India: share of people aged 7+ who can read and write with understanding in any language. Rose from 14% in 1947 to 74.04% (Census 2011) and 80.9% (PLFS 2023-24), via National Literacy Mission, Saakshar Bharat, and ULLAS programs.

Literacy in the United States

Literacy in the United States measures American adults' ability to understand and use written text, chiefly via PIAAC. In 2023, 28% of US adults ages 16-65 scored at Level 1 or below, on par with the OECD average, with large gaps by education and immigrant background.

Literacy test

Literacy tests were voting prerequisites requiring proof of reading, writing, or interpretation ability, used in the United States from 1890 to disenfranchise Black voters, paired with grandfather clauses, and outlawed in covered jurisdictions by the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

Literal and figurative language

Literal and figurative language: the distinction between direct, exact word use and figures of speech such as metaphor, metonymy, hyperbole, simile, and irony, with their theories, development in children, and machine interpretation.

Literal Standard Version

The Literal Standard Version (LSV) is a formal-equivalence English translation of the Bible, published in 2020 by Covenant Press as a major revision of Young's Literal Translation.

Literal translation

A literal translation of the Bible preserves, as far as English allows, the wording, word order, and grammar of the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek source text.

Literarisches Colloquium Berlin

The Literarisches Colloquium Berlin (LCB) is a German literary institution founded in 1963 by Walter Höllerer in a villa on the Wannsee, supporting writers and translators.

Literarishe Bleter

Literarishe Bleter (Yiddish: ליטערארישע בלעטער, "Literary Pages") was a Yiddish literary weekly published in Warsaw from April 1924 until mid-1939, the leading such publication in interwar Poland.

Literární noviny

Literární noviny (Literary News) is a Czech weekly newspaper for culture and politics, published in Prague, revived in 1990 after serving as an influential opposition platform in 1960s Czechoslovakia.

Literary and historical sources of ballets

Literary and historical sources of ballets is an overview of how novels, plays, and fairy tales become ballet scenarios, covering adaptation, fidelity, and famous examples like Giselle.

Literary anecdote

The literary anecdote (литературный анекдот) is a written short narrative about an incident in the life of a historical figure, an independent genre before larger prose forms absorbed it.

Literary Center of Constructivists

The Literary Center of Constructivists (Литературный центр конструктивистов, LCC) was a Soviet literary group, mainly poets, formally organized in Moscow in 1924 under Ilya Selvinsky and dissolved in 1930.

Literary criticism

Literary criticism (lit crit, literary critique) is the formal analysis, interpretation, and evaluation of literature, distinct from literary theory and book reviewing. Covers classical poetics to New Criticism, structuralism, Marxist, feminist, and postcolonial schools, close reading, canon formation, and the field's contraction in jobs and newspaper reviews.

Literary criticism in the Republican era

Literary criticism in the Republican era is critical writing on Turkish literature after 1923, long dominated by subjective, impressionist judgment until objective, theory-based criticism emerged after the 1950s.

Literary cycle

A literary cycle is a set of works of one genre, also called a story cycle or novel sequence, linked by shared characters, themes, or a compositional frame, each work remaining structurally autonomous, from medieval Arthurian cycles to modern novels-in-stories.