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Lynk & Co 900 (领克900)

Lynk & Co 900 (领克900) is a full-size plug-in hybrid six-seat SUV built by the Chinese brand Lynk & Co, launched in China in April 2025 as the brand's flagship.

Lynk & Co Z20 (领克Z20)

The Lynk & Co Z20 (领克Z20) is a compact battery-electric fastback SUV built by Lynk & Co, launched in China in December 2024 as the brand's first electric SUV.

Lynn Conway

Lynn Ann Conway (1938–2024) was an American computer scientist and electrical engineer who, with Carver Mead, created the VLSI design methodology that transformed microchip design from the late 1970s.

Lynn S. Beedle

Lynn S. Beedle (1917–2003) was an American structural engineer at Lehigh University whose plastic-design research reshaped steel building practice and who founded the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat.

Lynnewood Hall

Lynnewood Hall is a 110-room Classical Revival mansion in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, built between 1897 and 1900 for Peter A.B. Widener and designed by architect Horace Trumbauer.

Lynx (Rheinmetall armoured fighting vehicle)

The Lynx is a Rheinmetall family of modular medium-weight tracked armored fighting vehicles, offered as the KF31 and KF41, with Hungary as its first customer in 2022.

Lynx (web browser)

Lynx, also known as the Lynx browser, is a text-only web browser that runs in a terminal. Created at the University of Kansas, it was first released in 1993.

Lynx Blue Line

The Lynx Blue Line is a light rail line in Charlotte, North Carolina, owned and operated by the Charlotte Area Transit System, running about 19 miles and 26 stations.

Lynxmotion

Lynxmotion is an American maker of educational and hobby robot kits, founded in 1995 by Jim Frye and known for its Servo Erector Set, hexapods, and AL5 arms.

Lyon–Turin rail link

The Lyon–Turin rail link is a 270-kilometer railway line between Lyon, France, and Turin, Italy, centered on the 57.5-kilometer Mont Cenis base tunnel under construction beneath the Alps.

LyondellBasell

LyondellBasell Industries N.V. is a global chemical company incorporated under Dutch law, created in 2007 when Basell acquired Lyondell Chemical, converting hydrocarbons into plastic resins and licensing process technologies.

Lyonnaise des Eaux

Lyonnaise des Eaux was a French water distribution and treatment company, one of France's two dominant private water firms, that merged with Dumez in 1990 and became part of Suez.

Lyophilization

Lyophilization, or freeze-drying, is a drying method that freezes a material and removes its water by sublimation under vacuum, producing a stable dry solid used to improve drug stability in pharmaceutical manufacturing.

Lyria

Lyria is a family of AI music generation models developed by Google DeepMind, first announced in November 2023 with YouTube and powering Dream Track and MusicFX DJ.

Lyten

Lyten is an American advanced-materials company founded in 2015 and based in San Jose, California, that develops lithium-sulfur batteries built on its proprietary 3D Graphene platform.

Lytro

Lytro was an American camera company founded by Ren Ng that made light-field cameras allowing photos to be refocused after the shot, before winding down in 2018.

Lyut

Lyut (Ukrainian: «Лють», "Rage") is a Ukrainian combat unmanned ground vehicle armed with a 7.62 mm machine gun, codified by Ukraine's Ministry of Defence in March 2025.

LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin

LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin, also known as Graf Zeppelin I, was a German passenger rigid airship that made the first commercial transatlantic flight in 1928 and circled the globe in 1929.

LZ 129 Hindenburg

The LZ 129 Hindenburg, the largest airship of its time, carried passengers across the Atlantic in 1936 before burning at Lakehurst, New Jersey, on May 6, 1937.

LZ77 and LZ78

LZ77 and LZ78, also known as Lempel–Ziv coding, are lossless data-compression algorithms published by Jacob Ziv and Abraham Lempel in 1977 and 1978, ancestors of most compressors today.

M-102 (Michigan highway)

M-102, known as Eight Mile Road, is a 20.7-mile east–west state highway in Michigan that forms the northern boundary of Detroit between Clarenceville and Harper Woods.

M-63 Plamen

The M-63 Plamen, Yugoslavia's first domestically developed multiple rocket launcher, was a towed 32-tube system firing 128 mm unguided rockets, with a prototype ordered in 1963.

M-80 (explosive)

The M-80 is an illegal firecracker-type explosive in the United States: a red cardboard cylinder with roughly 3 grams of flash powder, federally banned since 1966.

M-84

The M-84 is a Yugoslav main battle tank, a licensed version of the Soviet T-72 with a domestic fire-control system, built from 1983 in Slavonski Brod, Croatia.

M-Blocks

M-Blocks are cubic self-reconfiguring robots developed at MIT's CSAIL, first proposed by John Romanishin in 2011. Each cube spins an internal flywheel to roll, flip, and climb, with magnets letting cubes attach to each other.

M-DISC

M-DISC, also known as the Millennial Disc or M-Disk, is an archival recordable optical disc from Millenniata of Utah, using an inorganic layer rated to last over 1,000 years.

M-Hero

M-Hero (猛士, Mengshi) is a luxury electric off-road brand of Chinese state-owned automaker Dongfeng Motor, launched in 2022 with the M-Hero 917 as its first model.

M-Machine (computer)

The M-Machine was an experimental multicomputer designed at MIT and later at Stanford to test architectural concepts; its MAP chip combined VLIW-style instruction issue with zero-overhead hardware multithreading across clustered 64-bit cores.

M-of-N detection

M-of-N detection, also called binary integration, is a radar and sonar decision rule declaring a target only when at least M of N updates contain detections.

M-TRAN

M-TRAN (Modular Transformer) is a self-reconfigurable modular robot developed at Japan's AIST with Tokyo Institute of Technology, introduced in 2002, whose identical modules detach, rotate, and reconnect to change shape and gait.