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Liebherr-Aerospace
Liebherr-Aerospace is the aerospace and transportation systems segment of the Liebherr Group, headquartered in Toulouse and founded as Liebherr-Aero-Technik by Hans Liebherr in 1960, supplying aircraft systems worldwide.
Lieven Vandersypen
Lieven Vandersypen, born 1972 in Leuven, Belgium, is a Belgian physicist and professor at TU Delft known for quantum computing with electron spins in silicon, including a six-qubit processor.
LIFE (habitat)
LIFE (Large Integrated Flexible Environment) is an expandable space habitat by Sierra Space, planned as the primary habitat module of the Orbital Reef space station.
Life cycle design
Life cycle design, also called environmentally conscious design or ecodesign, is an engineering method that minimizes a product's environmental impact across its entire life cycle.
Life in the Atacama
Life in the Atacama was a NASA-funded project, running from 2003 to 2005, in which autonomous rovers searched for microbial life in Chile's Atacama Desert as a test bed for future life-detection missions to Mars.
Life-cycle assessment
Life-cycle assessment (LCA), also called life cycle analysis or cradle-to-grave analysis, is a method for evaluating a product's environmental impacts from raw material extraction through disposal.
Life-cycle cost analysis
Life-cycle cost analysis (LCCA) is an economic method that totals an asset's acquisition, operating, maintenance, and disposal costs over its life, discounted to present value for comparing alternatives.
Life-support system
A life-support system, also called an Environmental Control and Life Support System, keeps humans alive where the environment cannot, providing oxygen, removing carbon dioxide, and managing water, waste, pressure, and temperature.
Life360
Life360 is a freemium family location-sharing and safety app launched in 2008 by Chris Hulls and run from the San Francisco Bay Area, with about 95.8 million monthly users.
Lifeboat (shipboard)
A shipboard lifeboat is a rigid survival craft carried on a ship's deck to evacuate crew and passengers in an emergency, regulated under the SOLAS convention.
Lifeboats of the Titanic
The lifeboats of the Titanic were the 20 boats carried on RMS Titanic, with capacity for only 1,178 of the roughly 2,200 people aboard when she sank in 1912.
LifeLock
LifeLock is an American identity-theft protection service founded in 2005 and owned by Gen Digital, monitoring credit bureaus, financial accounts, and dark-web sources, with restoration support and expense-reimbursement coverage.
Lifelong multi-agent path finding
Lifelong multi-agent path finding is the robotics coordination problem in which agents get new goals upon completing current ones, judged by throughput rather than arrival time.
Lifesize (company)
Lifesize is an American video conferencing company founded in Austin, Texas, in 2003, known for high-definition and 4K meeting-room hardware and a cloud video service, acquired by Enghouse Systems in 2023.
LifeStraw
LifeStraw is a brand of portable water filters using hollow fiber membrane technology to remove bacteria, parasites, and microplastics, first sold by Denmark-based Vestergaard in 2005.
Lift (2024 film)
Lift (2024) is a Netflix heist action comedy directed by F. Gary Gray, starring Kevin Hart as art thief Cyrus Whitaker, whose crew steals $500 million in gold from a plane mid-flight; released January 12, 2024, with mixed-to-negative reviews (Metascore 40, 30% Tomatometer).
Lift (data mining)
Lift, first described under the name "interest", is a data mining measure for association rules that compares observed co-occurrence of items with what statistical independence would predict.
Lift-off process
The lift-off process is an additive microfabrication technique that patterns evaporated metal films by dissolving a sacrificial resist stencil, used for contacts and interconnects in semiconductor and MEMS manufacturing.
Liftback
A liftback is a car body style with a single top-hinged rear door incorporating the rear window, combining fastback-like proportions with hatchback cargo access; Toyota coined the term in 1973.
Lifting body
A lifting body is a wingless aircraft or spacecraft that generates lift from its fuselage shape, allowing a returning space vehicle to maneuver and land on a runway.
LIG Nex1
LIG Nex1 (LIG넥스원) is a South Korean defense company, founded in 1976 as Goldstar Precision, making missiles, radars, avionics, and unmanned systems, and exporting the Cheongung-II air defense system.
LIGA
LIGA is a microfabrication process combining deep X-ray lithography, electroplating, and molding to produce high-aspect-ratio microstructures, developed at Karlsruhe and reported by E. W. Becker and colleagues in 1982.
Ligado Networks
Ligado Networks is a private American satellite communications company, headquartered in Reston, Virginia, that holds L-band spectrum licenses in North America and is known for its GPS interference dispute.
Ligang power station
Ligang power station is a coal-fired power station in Ligang, Jiangyin, Jiangsu, China, operated by Jiangsu Ligang Electric Power and the largest thermal plant in Jiangsu Province after 2026.
Liggett Group
Liggett Group is an American cigarette manufacturer headquartered in Durham, North Carolina, the successor to Liggett & Myers, selling discount brands like Eagle 20's and Pyramid.
Light aircraft
A light aircraft is a small fixed-wing airplane used for general aviation, flying other than scheduled commercial transport. The Piper J-3 Cub, first built in 1937, became its archetype.
Light aircraft carrier
A light aircraft carrier, also called a light fleet carrier, is a carrier smaller than a fleet carrier, displacing 10,000 to 20,000 tons and built more quickly and cheaply.
Light aircraft pilot licence
The light aircraft pilot license (LAPL) is an EASA pilot license allowing holders to fly light aircraft up to 2,000 kg non-commercially, carrying at most 3 passengers.
Light and elevated temperature-induced degradation
Light and elevated temperature-induced degradation (LeTID) is a defect mechanism in crystalline silicon solar cells that lowers carrier lifetime and power output over months to years.
Light commercial vehicle
A light commercial vehicle, also called a light goods vehicle, is a commercial vehicle designed primarily for carrying goods, with a maximum weight of 3.5 tonnes.