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Longinus
Longinus (Λογγῖνος) is the traditional name of the Roman soldier who pierced Jesus' side (John 19:34), first named in the apocryphal Gospel of Nicodemus; later legend makes him a Cappadocian martyr, distinct from pseudo-Longinus of On the Sublime.
Longispina
Longispina: primarily an extinct Devonian chonetid brachiopod genus (Cooper, 1942, type species Chonetes emmetensis); the epithet longispina also names crustaceans, a rotifer, water fleas, and a foraminiferan, and a junior homonym ostracode genus was renamed.
Longitude
Longitude is the geographic coordinate measuring distance east or west of the prime meridian at Greenwich, expressed in degrees and counted up to 180 in each direction.
Longitude Act
The Longitude Act was a British Act of Parliament passed in 1714 that offered prizes of up to £20,000 for a practical method of determining longitude at sea.
Longitude East
Longitude East is a venture capital fund in Menlo Park, California, run by Longitude Capital founders Patrick Enright and Juliet Tammenoms Bakker, which raised $100 million in 2025.
Longitude of the ascending node
The longitude of the ascending node (Ω) is the angle in a reference plane from a reference direction to an orbit's ascending node, one of six orbital elements.
Longitude Venture Partners
Longitude Venture Partners, doing business as Longitude Capital, is a healthcare venture capital firm founded in 2006 by Patrick Enright and Juliet Tammenoms Bakker in Menlo Park, California.
Longitudinal connectivity
Longitudinal connectivity is the upstream–downstream dimension of river connectivity, allowing water, sediment, nutrients, and organisms to move freely along the channel; dams are its leading cause of loss.
Longitudinal data analysis
Longitudinal data analysis is the collection of statistical methods for data measured repeatedly on the same subjects over time, separating within-subject change from between-subject differences.
Longitudinal magnetic recording
Longitudinal magnetic recording is a hard disk drive technique in which each bit's magnetization lies in the plane of the disk, used from 1956 to the mid-2000s.
Longitudinal mediation analysis
Longitudinal mediation analysis is a family of statistical methods for estimating direct and indirect effects when the mediator, the outcome, or both are measured repeatedly over time.
Longitudinal mode
A longitudinal mode is one of the discrete optical frequencies at which an optical resonator, such as a laser cavity, sustains a standing wave along its axis.
Longitudinal separation
Longitudinal separation is the air traffic control method of spacing aircraft along the same track by time or distance, used mainly in oceanic airspace without radar surveillance.
Longitudinal study
A longitudinal study, also called a panel study, is an observational research design that measures the same participants repeatedly over time to observe change and development.
Longitudinal wave
A longitudinal wave, also known as a compression or pressure wave, is a mechanical wave in which particles oscillate parallel to the direction of travel, as in sound.
Longjing tea
Longjing tea (龙井茶, Dragon Well tea), especially West Lake Longjing (西湖龙井), is a flat pan-fired green tea from Hangzhou, Zhejiang, with GI-protected Xihu, Qiantang, and Yuezhou zones, Qianlong's 18 imperial tea trees, and hand-fired spring harvests.
Longkaikou hydroelectric plant
Longkaikou hydroelectric plant (龙开口水电站) is a 1,800 MW hydroelectric station on the middle Jinsha River in Heqing County, Yunnan, China, owned by China Huaneng and fully operating since 2014.
Longkan Shoujing
Longkan Shoujing (龍龕手鏡) is a four-volume Chinese character dictionary of Buddhist usage compiled by the Liao dynasty monk Xingjun, completed in 997 with over 26,000 characters.
Longkou 7-1 Oil and Gas Field
Longkou 7-1 (龙口7-1) is an oil and gas field in eastern Bohai Bay, China, discovered by CNOOC in 2024 and notable for record tested gas productivity in the bay.
Longleat
Longleat is a Wiltshire stately home and estate near Horningsham, seat of the Marquesses of Bath. Its Elizabethan house (1567–1580) opened to the public in 1949, and its 1966 Safari Park was the first outside Africa.
Longlegs
Longlegs is a 2024 American horror thriller film written and directed by Osgood Perkins, starring Maika Monroe as an FBI agent pursuing Nicolas Cage's occult serial killer.
Longley–Rice model
The Longley–Rice model, formally the Irregular Terrain Model (ITM), is a radio propagation model developed at the U.S. National Telecommunications and Information Administration in 1968.
Longline fishing
Longline fishing is a commercial method that catches fish on long mainlines carrying hundreds or thousands of baited hooks, targeting tuna, swordfish, and groundfish like cod.
Longling County
Longling County (龙陵县), Baoshan, western Yunnan, China: mountainous border county between the Nu and Longchuan rivers, 2,794 km², seat Longshan; site of the 1944 Songshan and Longling battles; dendrobium and huanglongyu producer.
Longmeadow, Massachusetts
Longmeadow is a town in Hampden County, Massachusetts, immediately south of Springfield. Settled in 1636 and incorporated in 1783, it had 15,853 residents at the 2020 Census.
Longmen Grottoes (龙门石窟)
Longmen Grottoes (龙门石窟), Buddhist cave-temple complex on the Yi River south of Luoyang, Henan; over 2,300 caves and niches with nearly 110,000 statues carved mainly under the Northern Wei and Tang dynasties; UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2000.
Longmen Grottoes Vairocana Buddha
The Longmen Grottoes Vairocana Buddha (卢舍那大佛, Lushana Dafu) is a colossal seated Buddha, 17.14 meters tall, carved at the Fengxian Temple niche at Longmen near Luoyang and completed in 675.
Longmire (TV series)
Longmire (2012–2017) is an American neo-Western crime drama based on Craig Johnson's Walt Longmire novels, starring Robert Taylor as a Wyoming county sheriff; three seasons on A&E, then three on Netflix, 63 episodes total.
Longmont, Colorado
Longmont, Colorado: Front Range city founded 1871 by the Chicago-Colorado Colony, named for Longs Peak. Population 98,885 (2020); municipal utilities including NextLight fiber; sugar-beet to high-tech economy.
Longnawan
Longnawan, officially Long Nawang, is a village in Kayan Hulu, Malinau Regency, North Kalimantan, Indonesia, near the Sarawak border; about 1,159 residents, 594 m elevation, namesake of the 1:250,000 Long Nawan geological quadrangle.