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LALR parser

An LALR parser, or Look-Ahead LR parser, is a bottom-up shift-reduce parser that reads input left to right with one token of lookahead; yacc and GNU Bison generate LALR(1) parsers.

Lam Research

Lam Research is an American semiconductor equipment supplier founded in 1980 and headquartered in Fremont, California, whose systems perform deposition, etch, and clean steps in chip manufacturing.

Lama Oil Field

The Lama Oil Field (Campo Lama) is an oil field in central Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela, discovered in 1957 by the Superior Oil Company and still operating.

Lamadian Oil Field

Lamadian Oil Field (喇嘛甸) is an operating oil field in Heilongjiang, China, discovered in 1960 and one of the constituent fields of the Daqing oil complex, operated by Daqing Oilfield.

Lamar Oil Field

The Lamar Oil Field (Campo Lamar) is a giant oil field in south-central Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela, discovered by Phillips Petroleum in 1958 with an estimated ultimate recovery of more than 1.5 billion barrels.

Lambda

Lambda is an American GPU cloud provider founded in 2012 by twin brothers Stephen and Michael Balaban, renting NVIDIA GPU clusters for AI training and inference.

Lambda (ラムダ) (rocket family)

Lambda (ラムダ) was a family of Japanese all-solid-propellant rockets developed by the University of Tokyo in the 1960s; its four-stage L-4S variant launched Japan's first satellite, OHSUMI, in 1970.

Lambda architecture

Lambda architecture is a data-processing architecture, originated by Nathan Marz, that runs batch and streaming pipelines side by side and merges their results at query time.

Lambda lifting

Lambda lifting (λ-lifting) is a program transformation used in compiling functional languages: local functions move to the top level and their free variables become extra parameters.

Lambda wing

A lambda wing, also written λ wing, is an aircraft wing planform whose trailing edge combines forward and backward sweep, forming a Λ outline with higher lift-to-drag ratio.

Lambda-4S

Lambda-4S (L-4S) was a four-stage, all-solid-propellant Japanese rocket that launched Ohsumi, Japan's first satellite, from Kagoshima on 11 February 1970, succeeding on its fifth attempt.

Lambert B. Freund

Lambert B. Freund, also known as Lambert Ben Freund, was an American engineer and solid mechanician at Brown University, elected to the National Academy of Sciences and Engineering.

Lambert Ben Freund

Lambert Ben Freund (1942–2024) was an American solid mechanician at Brown University, known for dynamic fracture mechanics and thin-film mechanics, and a member of both national academies.

Lambert's problem

Lambert's problem is the orbital mechanics problem of finding the Keplerian transfer orbit between two positions given the time of flight, posed by Johann Heinrich Lambert in 1761 and used in mission planning and orbit determination.

Lamborghini

Lamborghini (Automobili Lamborghini S.p.A.) is an Italian super sports car manufacturer founded by Ferruccio Lamborghini in 1963 in Sant'Agata Bolognese, part of the Audi Group since 1998.

Lamborghini Aventador

The Lamborghini Aventador, also known as the Lambo Aventador, is a mid-engine V12 super sports car built in Italy from 2011 to 2022 as Lamborghini's flagship, succeeding the Murciélago.

Lamborghini Centenario

The Lamborghini Centenario is a limited-edition mid-engine V12 supercar built in 2016 and 2017 to mark the centenary of founder Ferruccio Lamborghini's birth, with 40 coupés and roadsters made.

Lamborghini Countach

The Lamborghini Countach is a mid-engined V12 supercar built by Lamborghini in Sant'Agata Bolognese from 1974 to 1990, styled by Marcello Gandini with a wedge shape and scissor doors.

Lamborghini Diablo

The Lamborghini Diablo is a V12 supercar built from 1990 to 2001, the Countach's successor and the fastest car in the world at its debut.

Lamborghini Fenomeno

The Lamborghini Fenomeno is a limited-production hybrid V12 supercar unveiled at Monterey Car Week in August 2025, built in 29 customer units priced from $3.5 million, making it Lamborghini's fastest and most powerful V12.

Lamborghini Gallardo

The Lamborghini Gallardo is a two-seat, mid-engine V10 sports car built by Automobili Lamborghini in Sant'Agata Bolognese from 2003 to 2013, its most-produced model at 14,022 units.

Lamborghini Huracán

The Lamborghini Huracán is a mid-engine sports car built in Italy from 2014 to 2024, powered by a 5.2-liter V10 engine as the successor to the Gallardo.

Lamborghini Jalpa

The Lamborghini Jalpa is a mid-engined V8 sports car from Automobili, produced from 1982 to 1988, serving as the entry-level model and the last of its smaller V8 line.

Lamborghini L411 engine

The Lamborghini L411 is a 4.0-liter twin-turbocharged V8 gasoline engine developed by Lamborghini in Sant'Agata Bolognese for the Temerario, the brand's first series-production turbocharged V8, with a 10,000 rpm redline.

Lamborghini LM002

The Lamborghini LM002 is a four-wheel-drive off-road vehicle built in Italy from 1986 to 1992, powered by the Countach's V12 and regarded as the first Super SUV.

Lamborghini Miura

The Lamborghini Miura is a two-seat sports car produced by Automobili Lamborghini in Sant'Agata Bolognese from 1966 to 1973, widely identified as the first standard production supercar.

Lamborghini Murciélago

The Lamborghini Murciélago is a V12-engined, four-wheel-drive supercar produced by Automobili Lamborghini from 2001 to 2009 as the brand's flagship, its successor being the 2011 Aventador.

Lamborghini Reventón

The Lamborghini Reventón, also spelled Reventon, is a limited-edition V12 supercar based on the Murciélago LP640, launched at the 2007 Frankfurt Motor Show as 20 coupés plus 15 Roadsters, priced around one million euros.

Lamborghini Revuelto

The Lamborghini Revuelto, code-named LB744, is a mid-engine V12 plug-in hybrid supercar built in Sant'Agata Bolognese and unveiled in March 2023 to replace the Aventador.

Lamborghini Sesto Elemento

The Lamborghini Sesto Elemento is a track-only Lamborghini supercar built almost entirely of carbon fiber, shown as a concept in 2010 and produced from 2012 in a series of 20.