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LineMOD dataset

LineMOD is a benchmark dataset of RGB-D images with ground-truth 6D object poses, introduced in 2012 by Stefan Hinterstoisser and colleagues for detecting texture-less objects in cluttered scenes.

Linerboard

Linerboard is a grade of containerboard used as the outer and inner facing sheets of corrugated shipping boxes, made as strong virgin kraftliner or economical recycled testliner.

LineScout

LineScout is a teleoperated inspection robot developed by Hydro-Québec's research institute in Quebec, introduced in 2006 to service live high-voltage transmission lines while they remain energized.

LineShine

LineShine (灵晟, Língshèng) is an all-CPU exascale supercomputer at the National Supercomputing Centre in Shenzhen, China, which debuted at number one on the TOP500 in June 2026.

Linformer

Linformer is a Transformer variant introduced by Facebook AI in June 2020 that replaces standard self-attention with a low-rank approximation, reducing quadratic complexity to linear in sequence length.

Ling Shao

Ling Shao (邵岭) is a computer vision and AI researcher, a distinguished professor at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, known for the Pyramid Vision Transformer.

Ling'ao nuclear power plant

Ling'ao nuclear power plant (岭澳核电站) is a four-unit pressurized water reactor station on the Dapeng peninsula at Daya Bay, Shenzhen, China, with Phase I in service since 2002.

Linga (oil field)

Linga is a gas and condensate discovery in the Norwegian North Sea, 205 km west of Stavanger, proven by the Equinor-operated well 25/7-13 in 2026.

Lingan power station

Lingan Generating Station is a coal-fired power station owned by Nova Scotia Power in Lingan, Nova Scotia. Its 620 MW across four units make it the utility's largest station.

Lingaraja Temple (ଲିଙ୍ଗରାଜ ମନ୍ଦିର)

Lingaraja Temple (ଲିଙ୍ଗରାଜ ମନ୍ଦିର) is an 11th-century Hindu temple dedicated to Shiva in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India, regarded as the culminating monument of the Kalinga architectural tradition.

Lingchong You

Lingchong You is a Chinese-born American synthetic biologist at Duke University, best known for a 2004 Nature paper programming bacterial population density through cell–cell communication and regulated killing.

Lingqu (灵渠)

Lingqu (灵渠), also called the Ling Canal or Magic Canal, is an ancient canal in Xing'an County, Guangxi, China, completed in 214 BC under Emperor Qinshihuang.

Lingshui 17-2 Gas Field

Lingshui 17-2 Gas Field (陵水17-2气田) is a deepwater natural gas field in the Qiongdongnan Basin of the South China Sea, discovered by CNOOC in 2014 and on stream since 2021.

Lingtai power station

Lingtai power station (灵台电厂) is a 2,000 MW coal-fired power station in Lingtai County, Gansu, China, owned by Shandong Energy Group and in commercial operation since 2025.

Linguistic Data Consortium

The Linguistic Data Consortium is a non-profit consortium at the University of Pennsylvania, founded in 1992, that creates and archives speech and text corpora for language technology research.

Linguistic variable

A linguistic variable is a variable whose values are words or sentences rather than numbers, introduced by Lotfi Zadeh in 1973 and central to fuzzy logic.

Linhe power station

Linhe power station is an operating 1,050 MW coal-fired power station in Linhe Town, Lingwu, Ningxia, China, with three 350 MW units serving the Ningdong electrolytic aluminum project.

Link 16

Link 16 is a secure, jam-resistant NATO and US tactical data link giving aircraft, ships, and ground units a common tactical picture updated in near real time.

Link adaptation

Link adaptation is a wireless transmission technique in which the transmitter adjusts modulation and coding, MIMO settings, and resources based on channel feedback to maximize throughput at a target error rate.

Link aggregation

Link aggregation, also called channel bonding, NIC teaming, or port trunking, combines multiple parallel network links into one logical link, increasing bandwidth and surviving individual link failures.

Link analysis

Link analysis is a family of graph algorithms that rank web pages by hyperlink structure, introduced by Kleinberg and by Brin and Page in 1998.

Link budget

A link budget is an equation accounting for all the gains and losses in power a communication signal experiences between transmitter and receiver, over wireless or wired media.

Link layer

The link layer, also called the network access layer, is the lowest layer of the Internet protocol suite, moving packets between neighboring nodes on one link.

Link Layer Discovery Protocol

The Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) is a vendor-neutral IEEE 802.1AB link-layer protocol in which network devices advertise their identity and capabilities to adjacent neighbors, letting management systems map network topology.

Link light rail

Link light rail is a light rail system in the Seattle metropolitan area operated by Sound Transit, serving Seattle, Bellevue, Redmond, Lynnwood, and Federal Way.

Link protection

Link protection is a network survivability technique in which a backup path is arranged in advance so traffic affected by a link failure switches over automatically, within tens of milliseconds.

Link Trainer

The Link Trainer, nicknamed the "Blue Box" and marketed as the "Pilot Maker," was a mechanical flight simulator built from 1929 to 1972 by Edwin A. Link of Binghamton, New York.

Link-local address

A link-local address is an IP address valid only on a single network link and never forwarded by routers, such as IPv6's FE80::/10 or IPv4's 169.254/16.

Link-state routing protocol

A link-state routing protocol is an interior gateway protocol in which every router shares its local connection state, builds an identical topology database, and computes shortest paths; OSPF and IS-IS are the standard examples.

Linkage (mechanical)

A mechanical linkage is an assembly of rigid links connected by joints so a prescribed input motion produces a desired output motion, as in the four-bar linkage.