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Liverpool John Lennon Airport

Liverpool John Lennon Airport, formerly Speke Airport, is an international airport serving Liverpool, England, opened in the 1930s and renamed after John Lennon in 2001.

Liverpool Lime Street railway station

Liverpool Lime Street railway station, opened in August 1836, is Liverpool's mainline railway terminus and one of Britain's oldest, with Grade II listed Victorian trainsheds.

Liverpool Street station

Liverpool Street station, also known as London Liverpool Street, is a mainline railway terminus in the City of London serving East Anglia, opened in 1875 and now Britain's busiest station.

Livestock truck

A livestock truck is a road vehicle, rigid or towing trailers, built with pens, decks, ramps, and ventilation to carry cattle, sheep, pigs, and poultry between farms, markets, and slaughterhouses.

Living building materials

Living building materials are construction materials containing living microorganisms, usually cyanobacteria, which fix CO2 and precipitate minerals, in contrast to bioinspired or merely bio-based materials.

Living concrete

Living concrete is a building material containing living microorganisms, typically cyanobacteria or Bacillus bacteria, that remain active inside it, healing cracks and capturing carbon dioxide.

Living off the land

Living off the land (LOTL) is a cyberattack technique in which adversaries use legitimate system tools and administrative utilities already installed, making malicious activity evade signature-based detection.

Living room

The living room, also called the sitting room or front room, is the room in a residence for relaxation and socializing, which largely replaced the formal parlor in the twentieth century.

Living root bridges

Living root bridges (Khasi: Jingkieng Jri) are footbridges grown over decades from the aerial roots of rubber fig trees by indigenous Khasi and Jaintia communities in Meghalaya, northeastern India.

Living shoreline

A living shoreline is a shoreline stabilization method using natural materials such as plants, sand, or rock, often with oyster reefs or sills, to control erosion along bays and estuaries.

Living shorelines

A living shoreline is a shoreline stabilization practice that controls erosion with native marsh vegetation, sand, and oyster reefs instead of hard bulkheads and seawalls.

Liviu Librescu

Liviu Librescu, born in Romania in 1930, was an Israeli aeronautical engineer and Virginia Tech professor who died in 2007 shielding his students during the campus shooting.

Livox

Livox is a LiDAR sensor manufacturer whose sensors use a non-repetitive scanning pattern, serving autonomous driving, robotics, drones, surveying, and security surveillance with products like the Mid-360 and Tele-15.

Liwan 3-1 Gas Field

Liwan 3-1 is a deepwater natural gas field in the South China Sea, discovered in 2006 and the first deepwater gas field developed offshore China.

Liwei Lin

Liwei Lin (林立伟) is a mechanical engineer, Distinguished Professor at UC Berkeley and co-director of BSAC, known for MEMS research and insect-scale soft robots, including a cockroach-like robot that survived being stepped on.

Lixin Banji power station

Lixin Banji power station (中煤新集电力安徽利辛板集电厂) is a coal-fired power station in Banji, Lixin County, Bozhou, Anhui, China, owned by China Coal Xinji, with at least 3,320 MW of capacity.

Liyuan cogen power station

Liyuan cogen power station is a coal-fired cogeneration plant in Junan County, Linyi, Shandong, China, with 1,440 MW of capacity generating over 10 billion kWh a year.

Liyuan Han

Liyuan Han (韩礼元) is a Chinese photovoltaics researcher and chair professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University whose groups have set certified world-record efficiencies for perovskite solar cells and modules.

Liyuan hydroelectric plant

The Liyuan hydroelectric plant (梨园水电站) is a 2,400 MW hydropower station on the Jinsha River in Yunnan, China, built from 2008 and fully operational since August 2016.

Liyujiang power station

Liyujiang power station (华润电力湖南鲤鱼江电厂) is an operating coal-fired power station in Chenzhou, Hunan, China, with at least 1,930 MW of subcritical anthracite units built between 1980 and 2007.

Liza Oil and Gas Field

Liza is a deepwater oil field in the Stabroek Block about 190 kilometers offshore Guyana, discovered by ExxonMobil in 2015 and producing Guyana's first oil in December 2019.

Lizard Labs

Lizard Labs, the trade name of Dutch chemical producer Synex Synthetics B.V., was a major Maastricht supplier of psychoactive research chemicals, founded by chemist Alexander Stratford and closed in 2024.

Lkw-Maut

The Lkw-Maut is the distance-based road toll Germany levies on heavy goods vehicles using federal motorways and highways, introduced on 1 January 2005 and operated by Toll Collect under a public-private partnership.

Lladró

Lladró is a Spanish company founded in 1953 by three brothers that makes handcrafted porcelain figurines, lighting, and jewelry, exporting more than 90 percent of its output.

Llama (model family)

Llama is a family of open-weight large language models created by Meta, first released in February 2023, whose release disrupted a market dominated by closed-source models.

Llama 2

Llama 2 is a collection of pre-trained and fine-tuned large language models released by Meta on July 18, 2023, including the Llama2-Chat variants, for research and commercial use.

Llama 3.1 405B

Llama 3.1 405B is a 405-billion-parameter open-weight large language model released by Meta in July 2024, the flagship of the Llama 3.1 collection alongside 8B and 70B models.

Llama 4

Llama 4 is a generation of open-weight large language models released by Meta on April 5, 2025, its first with mixture-of-experts architecture and native multimodality, shipping Scout and Maverick.

Llama 4 benchmark controversy

The Llama 4 benchmark controversy was an April 2025 incident in which Meta submitted a chat-optimized variant of Llama 4 Maverick to LMArena while releasing a different model.

Llama Community License

The Llama Community License is Meta Platforms' source-available license for distributing Llama model weights, permitting commercial use while imposing restrictions like a 700 million monthly active user gate.