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LED display
An LED display, or LED video display, is a screen that uses light-emitting diodes to form the picture itself, first commercialized in 1968 by Monsanto and Hewlett-Packard.
LED lamp
An LED lamp, also known as an LED bulb, is a light fixture or replacement bulb that uses light-emitting diodes, up to 90% more efficient than incandescent bulbs.
LED-backlit LCD
An LED-backlit LCD, often marketed as an LED TV, is a liquid crystal display whose white backlight comes from light-emitting diodes rather than the cold-cathode fluorescent lamps of earlier LCDs.
Ledo Road
The Ledo Road, also called the Stilwell Road, was a World War II highway built by American engineers from Ledo, Assam, through Burma to supply China.
Leduc-Woodbend Oil and Gas Field
The Leduc-Woodbend Oil and Gas Field is a light-oil and gas field in central Alberta south of Edmonton, discovered by Imperial Oil's Leduc No. 1 well on February 13, 1947.
Lee A. Kilgore
Lee A. Kilgore (1905–2000) was an American electrical engineer at Westinghouse who designed large rotating electric machinery and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1976.
Lee Davenport
Lee Davenport was an American physicist who led the SCR-584 anti-aircraft radar at MIT's Radiation Laboratory in World War II, built Harvard's cyclotron, and retired as GTE's chief scientist.
Lee de Forest
Lee de Forest (1873–1961) was an American inventor who created the Audion, the three-electrode vacuum tube known as the triode, which amplified signals and founded modern electronics.
Lee Highway
The Lee Highway was a named auto trail of the 1910s and 1920s, named for Robert E. Lee, running from Washington, D.C., to San Diego and replaced by U.S. numbered highways in 1926.
Lee Hsien Yang
Lee Hsien Yang (李显扬), born 1957, is a Singaporean business executive and former brigadier-general who led SingTel from 1995 to 2007, the youngest son of Lee Kuan Yew.
Lee Iacocca
Lee Iacocca, born Lido Anthony Iacocca, was an American automobile executive who led the Ford Mustang's development, served as Ford's president, and rescued Chrysler in the early 1980s.
Lee Moak
Lee Moak, born Donald Lee Moak in 1957, is an American former Marine fighter pilot and Delta captain who served as president of the Air Line Pilots Association from 2011 to 2014.
Lee Raymond
Lee Raymond was an American chemical engineer who served as chairman and CEO of Exxon from 1993 and of ExxonMobil from the 1999 merger until retiring in 2005.
Lee S. Gaumer
Lee Strohl Gaumer (1926–2010) was an American chemical engineer at Air Products whose cryogenic liquefaction technology supplied liquid hydrogen for NASA's Apollo spacecraft and space shuttles.
Lee Su-in
Su-In Lee (이수인) is a computer scientist and Boeing Endowed Professor at the University of Washington, known for SHAP, a widely used framework for explaining machine-learning predictions.
Lee–Enfield
The Lee–Enfield, or Short Magazine Lee Enfield (SMLE), is a British bolt-action service rifle adopted in 1895; about 17 million were made and it served through both world wars.
Lee–Metford
The Lee–Metford, or Lee-Metford rifle, was a bolt-action magazine rifle adopted by the British Army in 1888, chambered for .303 British and replaced by the Lee-Enfield in 1895.
LEED
LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) is a green building rating system developed by the U.S. Green Building Council, launched in 1998, with certification levels from Certified to Platinum.
Leeds & Northrup
Leeds & Northrup, often abbreviated L&N, was an American manufacturer of precision electrical measuring instruments and industrial automatic controls, founded in Philadelphia in 1899 and independent until its 1978 takeover by General Signal.
Leeds and Liverpool Canal
The Leeds and Liverpool Canal is a 127-mile broad-beam canal in northern England linking Leeds with Liverpool across the Pennines, authorised in 1770 and completed in 1816.
Leeds Bradford Airport
Leeds Bradford Airport, also known as Yeadon Aerodrome or Yeadon Airport, is the main commercial airport for Yorkshire, England, opened in 1931 and England's highest airport.
Leeds Castle
Leeds Castle is a Grade I listed castle in Kent, England, built on two islands in the River Len and restored in the 1930s by Lady Baillie.
Leeds railway station
Leeds railway station, also called Leeds City station, is the mainline station serving Leeds, England, with 18 platforms, making it the largest station in England outside London.
Left- and right-hand traffic
Left- and right-hand traffic are the two road conventions: about a third of countries, mostly former British colonies, drive on the left, the rest on the right.
Legacy and regional telephone plugs and sockets
Legacy and regional telephone plugs and sockets are the country-specific connectors, such as the British BT 431A and German TAE, that predate the modular RJ family.
Legacy code
Legacy code is existing source code a team must keep working while changing it, defined by Michael Feathers in 2004 as simply code without automated tests.
Legacy system
A legacy system, also called legacy software, is an existing computer system whose continued use creates burden or risk, typically because its technology is obsolete or unsupported.
Legacy waste
Legacy waste is hazardous and radioactive waste from nuclear weapons production and nuclear energy research since World War II and the Cold War, mostly in the United States.
Legacy Way
Legacy Way, formerly the Northern Link Tunnel, is a 4.6-kilometer twin two-lane toll tunnel in Brisbane, Australia, opened in 2015 and linking the Western Freeway to the Inner City Bypass.
Legal-BERT
Legal-BERT is a family of BERT language models pre-trained on legal texts, released in 2020 by researchers at the Athens University of Economics and Business for legal NLP tasks.