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Leaf Storm Leaf Storm is the common translation for Gabriel GarcĂa Márquez's 1954 short novel La Hojarasca (The title also refers rather ironically to an amalgamation of useless words). Widely celebrated as the birthplace of Macondo, the fictitious village later made famous in One Hundred Years of Solitude, Leaf Storm is best read as a testing ground for many of the themes and characters later immortalized in said masterpiece.
Leaf vegetable Leaf vegetables, also called potherbs, greens, or leafy greens, are plant leaves eaten as a vegetable, sometimes accompanied by tender petioles and shoots. Although they come from a very wide variety of plants, most share a great deal with other leaf vegetables in nutrition and cooking methods.
Leaf-toed gecko The Leaf-toed gecko (Phyllodactylus xanti) is an American gecko with vertical pupils and immovable eyelids, and leaf-like toe pads. It has dorsal granular scales interspersed with tubercles, and a brownish, grey or pinkish dorsum with a light venter.
Leafa Vitale Leafa Vitale was a former Minister of Works and former Minister of Women's Affairs in Samoa, who along with Toi Aukuso, former Minister Minister of Post and Telecommunications, plotted the assassination of Samoan Minister of Public Works Luagalau Levaula Kamu in 1999.
Leafhopper Leafhopper is a common name applied to any species from the family Cicadellidae. Leafhoppers, also known as hoppers, are minute plant-feeding insects in the superfamily Cicadelloidea in the homopterous division of the order Hemiptera.
Leafnode Leafnode is a store-and-forward NNTP (or Usenet) proxy server designed for small sites with just a few active newsgroups, but very easy to set up and maintain, when compared to INN. Originally created by Arnt Gulbrandsen in 1995 while he was working at Trolltech, it is currently maintained by Matthias Andree and Ralf Wildenhues.
Leafy spurge Leafy Spurge (Euphorbia esula), also known as Wolf's Milk, or Wolf's-milk is a flowering plant found in North America, but native to Eurasia. It is classified as an invasive species by the United States Department of Agriculture.
League (unit) A league is a unit of length, used to express distance, long common in Europe and Latin America, although no longer an official unit in any nation. The league expresses the distance a person, or a horse, can walk in 1 hour of time (usually about 3 miles or 5 kilometres).
League Against Cruel Sports The League Against Cruel Sports is an animal welfare organisation that campaigns against blood sports such as fox hunting and hare coursing. It also seeks the regulation of greyhound racing and and end to commercial game shooting and trophy hunting.
League Against Gandhism The League Against Gandhism, initially known as the Gandhi Boycott Committee, was a political organisation in Calcutta, India, founded by the underground Communist Party of India and others to launch militant anti-Imperialist activities. The name of the group referred to the opposition of the communists to the compromise politics of Gandhi.
League club League Club is a term used to refer to football clubs that are in one of the top professional leagues of a country. The club itself doesn't have to be professional and in some of the lower leagues of more minor footballing nations such as Scotland some clubs have become semi-professional in order to compete.
League for Autonomy-Lombard Alliance The League for Autonomy-Lombard Alliance of Italy (Italian: Lega Alleanza Lombarda) is a political party in Italy, especially in the region of Lombardy. The party is affiliated to the "L'Unione", the centre-left coalition led by Romano Prodi.
League for Industrial Democracy The League for Industrial Democracy (or LID) was founded in 1905 by a group of notable socialists including Jack London, Norman Thomas, and Upton Sinclair. Its original name was the Intercollegiate Socialist Society, and its stated purpose was that of "educating Americans about the need to extend democracy to every aspect of our society.
League for Programming Freedom League for Programming Freedom (LPF) was founded in 1989 by Richard Stallman to unite free software developers as well as developers of proprietary software to fight against software patents and the extension of the scope of copyright. Their logo is the Statue of Liberty holding a floppy disk and tape spool.
League for Social Reconstruction The League for Social Reconstruction was a circle of Canadian socialist intellectuals formed in 1931 by academics advocating radical social and economic reforms and political education as a response to the Great Depression.
League for Socialist Action (Canada) The International Left Opposition (Trotskyist) of Canada, the Workers Party of Canada, Socialist Policy Group, Socialist Workers League, Revolutionary Workers Party and the League for Socialist Action were successive Trotskyist organisations in Canada.
League for Socialist Action (UK) The League for Socialist Action was a small Trotskyist organisation in the United Kingdom. It consisted of a group of United Secretariat of the Fourth International (USFI) members who split from the International Marxist Group in the mid-1970s in support of the American Socialist Workers Party's tendency in the USFI.
League for Socialist Reconstruction League for Socialist Reconstruction (LSR) was a DeLeonist political organization with sections in New York City and Michigan. Joseph Brandon, Louis Lazarowitz, Sam Brandon and other LSR members had been active in the Industrial Union Party after mass expulsion of the Socialist Labor Party's Section Bronx during the 1920s.
League for the Fourth International The League for the Fourth International (LFI) is a Trotskyist international organisation. It was formed by members who were expelled from the Spartacist League's international the International Communist League (Fourth Internationalist) in 1996.
League for the Hard of Hearing The League for the Hard of Hearing was founded in New York in 1910 and is the premier hearing rehabilitation and human services agency in the world for infants, children and adults who are hard of hearing, deaf and deaf-blind, and their families. Over the years we have provided services to more than 1,250,000 people with hearing loss.
League Championship Series The League Championship Series (LCS) is the official name for a round of playoffs in Major League Baseball which has been conducted since 1969. In 1981, and since 1995, the two annual series have matched up the winners of the Division Series, and the winners advance to meet in the World Series.
League Leader's Shield The League Leader’s Shield is a trophy awarded to the team finishing the season top of Super League (Europe) in the sport of rugby league. Currently (and for much of its history) the championship is decided on the basis of a play-off series, and the Shield is thus regarded as a lesser prize.
League Managers Association The League Managers Association (LMA) is the organisation which collectively represents all Premiership and Football League managers in English football. The LMA's current chairman is Frank Clark and its chief executive is John Barnwell.
League of American Bicyclists The League of American Bicyclists (LAB), a cyclist's advocacy group was founded in 1880 as the League of American Wheelmen to improve riding conditions within the United States of America. The League was the leading organization advocating for the improvement of roads and highways in the United States throughout the last part of the 19th century, and has continued to serve as the leading membership organization for bicyclists in the US into the 21st century.
League of American Theatres and Producers The League of American Theatres and Producers, Inc. is the national trade association for the commercial theatre industry in North America, representing theatre owners and operators, producers, presenters, and suppliers of goods and services to the theatre community.
League of Arizona Cities and Towns League of Arizona Cities and Towns is a municipal league that provides an important link among the ninety incorporated cities and towns in Arizona. The League is the only organization that connects each and every municipality regardless of size or geographic location.
League of Armed Neutrality League of Armed Neutrality refers to one of two alliances of minor European naval powers (1780-1783 and 1800-1801), both intended to protect neutral shipping against the British Royal Navy's wartime policy of unlimited search of neutral shipping for French contraband. Accounts of the times also refer to these alliances simply as the Armed Neutrality.
League of Blind Women League of Blind Women was a short-lived all-star alternative rock band that included Robert Buck (lead guitar) from 10,000 Maniacs, Jerry Augustyniak (drums) from 10,000 Maniacs, Casey Orr (bass) from GWAR, Mike Scaccia (guitar) from Ministry and Rigor Mortis, Kol Marshall (keyboards) from Critical Mass and See No Evil, and Chris Kelly (vocals). When Casey Orr left the band in March, 1999 to go back to GWAR, Mitch Marine from Tripping Daisy took his place on bass.
League of Blood Incident was a 1932 assassination plot in Japan in which extremists targeted wealthy businessmen and liberal politicians. The group chose twenty victims but succeeded in killing only two: former Finance Minister and head of the Rikken Minseito, Junnosuke Inoue, and Director-General of Mitsui Holding Company, Takuma Dan.
League of Communists of Croatia Communist Party of Croatia (Croatian KomunistiÄŤka Partija Hrvatske, KPH) was the Croatian branch of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (KPJ). From 1952 onwards it was known as League of Communists of Croatia (Croatian Savez Komunista Hrvatske, SKH).
League of Communists of Macedonia League of Communists of Macedonia (in Macedonian: СоŃŃĐ· на комŃниŃтите на МакедониŃĐ°, Sojuz na Komunistite na Makedonija, SKM) was the Macedonian branch of the ruling League of Communists of Yugoslavia during the period 1943 – 1990. The name of the party was Communist Party of Macedonia until April 1952.
League of Communists of Macedonia (1992) League of Communists of Macedonia (in Macedonian: СоŃŃĐ· на комŃниŃтите на МакедониŃĐ°, Sojuz na Komunistite na Makedonija) is a political party in the Republic of Macedonia. The organization was founded in 1992 under the name League of Communists of Macedonia - Freedom Movement, by a small minority of the League of Communists of Macedonia which retained the old name and constituted itself as a distinct political entity.
League of Communists of Montenegro The League of Communists of Montenegro was the Montenegrin branch of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, the sole legal party of Yugoslavia from 1945 to 1990. Under a new constitution ratified in 1974, greater power was devolved to the various republic level branches.
League of Communists of Serbia The League of Communists of Serbia was the Serbian branch of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, the sole legal party of Yugoslavia from 1945 to 1990. Under a new constitution ratified in 1974, greater power was devolved to the various republic level branches.
League of Communists of Slovenia The League of Communists of Slovenia was the Slovenian branch of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, the sole legal party of Yugoslavia from 1945 to 1990. Under a new constitution ratified in 1974, greater power was devolved to the various republic level branches.
League of Communists of Yugoslavia League of Communists of Yugoslavia (Savez komunista Jugoslavije), before 1952 the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (KomunistiÄŤka partija Jugoslavije), was a major Communist party in Yugoslavia. The party was founded as an opposition party in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in 1919.
League of Communists of Yugoslavia in Serbia League of Communists of Yugoslavia in Serbia (Serbo-Croat: Савез комŃниŃŃ‚Đ° ĐŃгоŃлавиŃе Ń ĐˇŃ€Đ±Đ¸Ńи or Savez komunista Jugoslavije u Srbiji) is a political party in Serbia. SKJuS was formed following a split from the League of Communists of Yugoslavia (SKJ).
League of Composers The League of Composers/International Society for Contemporary Music is a society whose stated mission is "to produce the highest quality performances of new music, to champion American composers in the United States and abroad, and to introduce American audiences to the best new music from around the world." It was founded in New York City in 1923 as an American arm of International Society for Contemporary Music.
League of Conservation Voters The League of Conservation Voters is a nonpartisan American independent political voice for the environment. LCV's mission is to "advocate for sound environmental policies and to elect pro-environmental candidates who will adopt and implement such policies.
League of Corinth The League of Corinth (original name: Hellenes - 'The Greeks') was a federation of Greek states created by Philip II of Macedon during the winter of 338 BC/337 BC to facilitate his use of military forces in his war against Persia. The name 'league of Corinth' was coined by modern historians.
League of Democratic Socialists The League of Democratic Socialists (Bund Demokratischer Sozialisten) is an Austrian political party formerly affiliated with the World Socialist Movement, though unlike most other WSM parties, it did not start as an offshoot of the Socialist Party of Great Britain.
League of Diet Members Believing the Objectives of the Holy War The League of Diet Members Believing the Objectives of the Holy War was set up by a group of the Diet of Japan, in support of Japanese government policy in pursuing the Second Sino-Japanese War. It was disbanded later, during the advanced stages of the Pacific War.
League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots The League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots, or LEMUR, is a Brooklyn-based group of artists and technologists developing robotic musical instruments. Founded in 2000 by musician and engineer Eric Singer, LEMUR's philosophy is to build robotic instruments that play themselves.
League of Empire Loyalists The League of Empire Loyalists was a pressure group (also called a 'ginger group' in Gt Britain and the British Commonwealth; see below for context), established in 1954, campaigning against the dissolution of the British Empire in the 1950s and 1960s.
League of European Research Universities According to its mission statement, the League of European Research Universities (LERU) is "a group of European research-intensive universities committed to the values of high quality teaching within an environment of internationally competitive research."
League of Free Liberals The League of Free Liberals (in Dutch: Bond van Vrije Liberalen) was a dutch conservative liberal political party and a predecessor of the Liberal State Party which is historically linked to the VVD, the major Dutch liberal party.
League of Gentlemen (band) League of Gentlemen was a late-1970s band featuring guitarist Robert Fripp of King Crimson. Other members included bass guitarist Sara Lee (who later joined Gang of Four), keyboardist Barry Andrews (formerly of XTC; later of Shriekback) and percussionist Johnny B.
League of Ireland Shield The League of Ireland Shield is a defunct Irish football tournament which was introduced when the League of Ireland started in 1921 and ran uninterrupted until 1972. It was played before the league season began and was seen as the 3rd most important trophy in Irish football, bhind the league and FAI Cup.
League of Jewish Women The League of Jewish Women is one of the leading voluntary Jewish women's service organisations in the United Kingdom. Affiliated to more than 30 other national and international organisations, membership is open to all Jewish women.
League of Lezhë The League of Lezhë was the first coordinated Albanian Independence movement, led by Gjergj Kastrioti, or Skanderbeg. When the four Albanian-Ottoman vilayets attempted to secede from the Ottoman Empire they were weak and full of disunity.
League of Liberators The League of Liberators (in Estonian: Vabadussõjalaste Liit, vabadussõjalased, or colloquially vapsid) was an Estonian association of veterans of the Estonian Liberation War (1918-1920) against the Soviets. The organisation was of proto-fascist nature and allegedly tried twice to overthrow the government of Konstantin Päts, once in 1933 and a second time in December 1935.
League of Nations mandate A League of Nations mandate refers to several territories established under Article 22 of the Covenant of the League of Nations, 28 June 1919. Upon the entry into force of the Charter of the United Nations in late 1945, the mandates of the League of Nations (except for South-West Africa) became United Nations Trust Territories, as agreed to earlier at the Yalta Conference.
League of Nations members Between 1920 and 1946, a total of 63 countries became members of the League of Nations. The Covenant forming the League of Nations was included in the Treaty of Versailles and came into force on 10 January 1920.
League of Palestinian Communists League of Palestinian Communists (in Arabic: عصبة الشيŮعيين الŮلسطينيين) was a small Palestinian communist group in Syria. It was formed by Palestinian communist that did not join the Palestinian Communist Party when it was reorganized in 1982.
League of Peace and Freedom The Inaugural Congress of the League of Peace and Freedom was originally planned for September 5, 1867 in Geneva. Emile Acollas set up the League’s Organising Committee which enlisted the support of John Stuart Mill, Elisée Reclus and his brother Elie Reclus.
League of Peoples The League of Peoples is a fictional interstellar polity present in a series of novels by science fiction author James Alan Gardner. Although theoretically made up of every sentient race in the galaxy, in actuality the League is controlled by (from Humanity's standpoint) hyperadvanced beings who have little concern for wants, needs, and desires of the less evolved races.
League of Polish Families The League of Polish Families (Liga Polskich Rodzin, or LPR) is a conservative and nationalist-minded political party within the Polish Parliament, and a coalition partner in Poland's current ruling government. The media in some western European countries have depicted the party as distasteful, and it is widely regarded by them as being a far-right party.
League of Professional System Administrators The League of Professional System Administrators, or LOPSA, is a non-profit organization. The organization's mission is "to advance the practice of system administration; to support, recognize, educate, and encourage its practitioners; and to serve the public through education and outreach on system administration issues.
League of Revolutionaries for a New America The League of Revolutionaries for a New America (LRNA) is a communist party in the United States founded by a group in California around Nelson Peery who split from the Communist Party USA in 1958. It was part of Provisional Organizing Committee to Reconstitute a Marxist Leninist Party (POC), which felt the Communist Party USA was supporting revisionism in the Soviet Union.
League of Social Democrats The League of Social Democrats (Chinese:社ćść°‘主連線) is a radical pro-democratic political organization in Hong Kong. Its purpose is to "take a clear-cut stand to defend the interests of the grassroots"(ć——ĺąźé®®ćŽĺś°ć‚Ťčˇ›ĺźşĺ±¤ĺ©ç›Š).
League of Struggle for Negro Rights The League of Struggle for Negro Rights was organized by the Communist Party in 1930 as the successor to the American Negro Labor Congress. The League was particularly active in organizing support for the "Scottsboro Boys", nine black men sentenced to death in 1931 for crimes they had not committed.
League of the Holy Court The League of the Holy Court, Vehmgericht, or just the Vehm was a secret tribunal of Westphalia during the Middle Ages, the principal seat of which was in Dortmund. Traditionally founded in the year 772 CE by Charlemagnepg.
League of the Public Weal The League of the Public Weal was an alliance of feudal nobles organized in 1465 in defiance of the centralized authority of the French King, Louis XI, masterminded by Charles the Bold, Count of Charolais, son of the Duke of Burgundy, with the king's brother Charles, Duke of Berry,as a figurehead.
League of the South The League of the South is a Southern nationalist organization whose ultimate goal is "a free and independent Southern republic."League of the South website The group defines the Southern United States as the states that made up the former Confederacy, plus Oklahoma, Missouri, Kentucky, and Maryland.
League of the Ten Jurisdictions The League of the Ten Jurisdictions (Zehngerichtebund) of Raetia (the later Grisons) was established in 1436 by the people of ten bailiwicks in the former county of Toggenburg, as the dynasty of Toggenburg had become extinct.
League of the Three Emperors The League of the Three Emperors, also known as the Three Emperors' League (), was an 1873 alliance among the emperors of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Russia, the three largest powers in Eastern and Central Europe at the time. It is widely considered to be a long-term cause of World War I and was intended to stand in opposition to increasingly liberal forms of government to the west.
League of United Latin American Citizens The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) is a left wing political advocacy group for Latinos in the United States. Founded in 1929 in Corpus Christi, Texas, LULAC is the nation's oldest Hispanic organization.
League Of Their Own 2006 League Of Their Own 2006 is a black-and-white nude calendar featuring 12 of the sexiest Australian rugby league players from the National Rugby League competition. The calendar was released in December 2005 and was produced in the same erotic style that has made French rugby's annual Dieux du Stade calendars so successful, with the players being photographed nude separately in various different locations, both indoors and outdoors.
League Park I (Cincinnati) League Park was the name used for two different baseball parks that formerly stood in Cincinnati, Ohio. They were both home fields of the team now known as the Cincinnati Reds of the National League and American Association.
League system A league system is a hierarchy of leagues in a sport that teams can be promoted or relegated between, depending on finishing positions or playoffs. They are often called pyramids due to their tendency to have more (regional) divisions at the bottom.
League table A league table is a chart or list which compares sports teams, institutions or companies by ranking them in order of ability or achievement. In the United Kingdom, many public-sector industries, including hospitals, compete in league tables.
League tables of British universities League Tables of British Universities, which rank the performances of universities in the United Kingdom on a number of criteria, have been published every year by The Times newspaper since the early 1990s. The factors used to assess universities include quality of teaching and research (which are assessed by external inspectors), entry standards and dropout rates.
Leah Ayres Leah Ayres (born Leah Simpson on May 28, 1957 in Baltimore, Maryland) played Marcia in the six episode drama series The Bradys, one of the many spin offs to the Brady Bunch. It was produced in 1989 and premiered on February 6, 1990.
Leah Betts Leah Betts (November 11, 1977 - November 16, 1995) was a schoolgirl from Latchingdon in Essex, England. She is notable for the extensive media coverage that followed her death several days after her 18th birthday, on November 11, during which she took an ecstasy tablet, then collapsed four hours later into a coma, from which she did not recover.
Leah Brahms Leah Brahms, a character in the Star Trek fictional universe, was one of the main engineers responsible for developing the warp drive on Galaxy class starships, most notably the USS Enterprise-D. Leah Brahms is played by Susan Gibney.
Leah Cairns Leah Cairns (born in Kamloops, British Columbia) is a Canadian actress. She currently stars as one of the Raptor pilots, Lieutenant Margaret "Racetrack" Edmondson, on the Sci Fi Channel television program Battlestar Galactica.
Leah Goldberg Leah Goldberg (May 29, 1911- January 15, 1970) was a Hebrew poet and student of literature who is considered one of Israel's classic poets. Born in KönigsbergLeah Goldberg listed two contradictory birth places: in a 1956 biographical manuscript she wrote that she was born in Königsberg, but when filling in a form for the Israeli authors' association in 1964 she listed her birth place as Kaunas.
Leah Hackett Leah Hackett (born August 1985) is an English actress from Leigh, Wigan, Greater Manchester, and brought up in Tyldesley. She attended Fred Longworths High School and later trained at The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA), which she appeared in a number of stage productions.
Leah Isadora Behn Leah Isadora Behn (born April 8 2005) is the second daughter of Princess Märtha Louise of Norway and husband Ari Behn. She was born at the princess's summer residence Bloksbjerg at Hankø island, in the municipality of Fredrikstad.
Leah Manning Dame Elizabeth Leah Manning (April 14, 1886 – September 15, 1977) was an educationalist, social reformer, and Labour Member of Parliament in the 1930s and 1940s. She organised the evacuation of orphaned or at risk Basque children during the Spanish Civil War.
Leah Meyerhoff Leah Meyerhoff (born December 4, 1979 in San Francisco, California) is a Student Academy Award nominated filmmaker. Her films have screened in over 100 film festivals worldwide and won a dozen international awards.
Leah Pipes Leah Marie Pipes (born August 12, 1988 in Los Angeles, California) is an American actress. She was a regular on the TV series Lost at Home and appeared in the Disney Channel Original Movie Pixel Perfect with Ricky Ullman.
Leah Price Leah Price is a professor of English and American Literature at Harvard University, where her specialties are in the novel, literary journalism, the history of books and reading, and narrative theory, as well as on the culture of the eighteenth and nineteenth-centuries and British fiction in the nineteenth and twentieth-centuries. Price's best known publication is the book, The Anthology and the Rise of the Novel, and is editor of Literary Secretaries/Secretarial Culture.
Leah Rose Leah Rose is a fictional character in the Left Behind series. Former head nurse at Arthur Young Memorial Hospital in Palatine, Illinois, she helped Cameron "Buck" Williams get Ken Ritz out without compromising the Tribulation Force's cover, and after helping deliver Hattie Durham's stillborn baby that was fathered by Antichrist Nicolae Carpathia, abandons her now-compromised job and must request sanctuary at the Trib Force safe house.
Leahy Leahy is the name of a Canadian folk music group. The eight band members, all from the Leahy family of eleven siblings, are from Lakefield, Ontario and have been actively touring Canada and internationally since the early 1980s when they were known as The Leahy Family.
Leahy class cruiser Leahy class cruisers were a class of guided missile cruisers built for the United States Navy. They were originally designated as DLG destroyers, but in the 1975 cruiser realignment, they were reclassified as guided missile cruisers (CG).
Leach Pottery The Leach Pottery was founded by Bernard Leach and Shoji Hamada in St Ives, Cornwall, South West England, in 1920. The pottery is still in existence although now closed awaiting refurbishment as a working pottery, museum and gallery.
Leak A leak is a hole or other opening, usually unintended and therefore undesired, in a container or fluid-containing system, such as a tank or a ship's hull, through which the contents of the container can escape or outside matter can enter the container. The word "leak" is also used as a verb; matter going through the opening is said to leak.
Leak-down tester A leak-down tester is a measuring instrument used to determine the condition of internal combustion engines by introducing compressed air into the cylinder and measuring the rate at which it leaks out. Compression testing is a crude form of leak-down testing which also includes effects due to compression ratio, starter/battery condition and other factors.
Leakage effect The leakage effectis a concept within the study tourism. The term refers to the way in which revenue created through tourism in LEDCs] (Less Economically Developed Countries) can 'leak' back to richer countries.
Leakage inductance Leakage inductance is that property of an electrical transformer that causes a winding to appear to have some self-inductance in series with the mutually-coupled transformer windings. This is due to imperfect coupling of the windings and creation of leakage flux which does not link with all the turns.
Leakey (crater) Leakey is a small, undistinguished lunar impact crater that is located in an area of rough terrain in the eastern part of the Moon. The immediate area is not notable for crater features, although some distance to the southwest is the Capella-Isidorus crater pair.
Leaky abstraction A leaky abstraction is an unsatisfactory implementation of an abstraction. Unsatisfactory means any case when specific implementation details manifest themselves in some obstructive or counter-productive way, thus interfering with the abstraction.
Leaky bucket Although the leaky bucket algorithm has several uses, it is best understood in the context of network traffic shaping or rate limiting. Typically, the algorithm is used to control the rate at which data is injected into a network, smoothing out "burstiness" in the data rate.
Leaky gut syndrome Leaky gut syndrome is a diagnostic entity popular in various branches of alternative medicine. Its proponents hypothesize that damage to the bowel lining, caused by antibiotics, toxins, poor diet, parasites or infection (e.
Leaky mode A leaky mode or tunneling mode in an optical fiber or other waveguide is a mode having an electric field that decays monotonically for a finite distance in the transverse direction but becomes oscillatory everywhere beyond that finite distance. Such a mode gradually "leaks" out of the waveguide as it travels down it, producing attenuation even if the waveguide is perfect in every respect.
LeakyMug LeakyMug is a joint podcast between PotterCast and MuggleCast featuring several staff members from popular Harry Potter fansites The-Leaky-Cauldron & MuggleNet that discusses everything to do with the Harry Potter world (Potterverse). The first show was launched on November 12, 2005.
Lealholm railway station Lealholm railway station serves the village of Lealholm along with Lealholmside and Fryupdale in North Yorkshire, England. It is located on the Esk Valley Line and is operated by Northern Rail who provide all of the station's passenger services.
Lealui Lealui is the dry season residence of the Litunga, king of the Lozi people of western Zambia. At the end of the dry season, as flood waters encroach on the compound, the Litunga moves to Limulunga on higher ground.
Leama & Moor Leama & Moor are a DJ and production duo of Andy Beardmore and Martin Smith hailing from the UK. They have begun their music in 1999 under Leama's solo project with the songs "Requiem For A Dream" and "Melodica" before they officially formed the duo project Leama & Moor.
Leaf vegetable Leaf vegetables, also called potherbs, greens, or leafy greens, are plant leaves eaten as a vegetable, sometimes accompanied by tender petioles and shoots. Although they come from a very wide variety of plants, most share a great deal with other leaf vegetables in nutrition and cooking methods.
Leaf-toed gecko The Leaf-toed gecko (Phyllodactylus xanti) is an American gecko with vertical pupils and immovable eyelids, and leaf-like toe pads. It has dorsal granular scales interspersed with tubercles, and a brownish, grey or pinkish dorsum with a light venter.
Leafa Vitale Leafa Vitale was a former Minister of Works and former Minister of Women's Affairs in Samoa, who along with Toi Aukuso, former Minister Minister of Post and Telecommunications, plotted the assassination of Samoan Minister of Public Works Luagalau Levaula Kamu in 1999.
Leafhopper Leafhopper is a common name applied to any species from the family Cicadellidae. Leafhoppers, also known as hoppers, are minute plant-feeding insects in the superfamily Cicadelloidea in the homopterous division of the order Hemiptera.
Leafnode Leafnode is a store-and-forward NNTP (or Usenet) proxy server designed for small sites with just a few active newsgroups, but very easy to set up and maintain, when compared to INN. Originally created by Arnt Gulbrandsen in 1995 while he was working at Trolltech, it is currently maintained by Matthias Andree and Ralf Wildenhues.
Leafy spurge Leafy Spurge (Euphorbia esula), also known as Wolf's Milk, or Wolf's-milk is a flowering plant found in North America, but native to Eurasia. It is classified as an invasive species by the United States Department of Agriculture.
League (unit) A league is a unit of length, used to express distance, long common in Europe and Latin America, although no longer an official unit in any nation. The league expresses the distance a person, or a horse, can walk in 1 hour of time (usually about 3 miles or 5 kilometres).
League Against Cruel Sports The League Against Cruel Sports is an animal welfare organisation that campaigns against blood sports such as fox hunting and hare coursing. It also seeks the regulation of greyhound racing and and end to commercial game shooting and trophy hunting.
League Against Gandhism The League Against Gandhism, initially known as the Gandhi Boycott Committee, was a political organisation in Calcutta, India, founded by the underground Communist Party of India and others to launch militant anti-Imperialist activities. The name of the group referred to the opposition of the communists to the compromise politics of Gandhi.
League club League Club is a term used to refer to football clubs that are in one of the top professional leagues of a country. The club itself doesn't have to be professional and in some of the lower leagues of more minor footballing nations such as Scotland some clubs have become semi-professional in order to compete.
League for Autonomy-Lombard Alliance The League for Autonomy-Lombard Alliance of Italy (Italian: Lega Alleanza Lombarda) is a political party in Italy, especially in the region of Lombardy. The party is affiliated to the "L'Unione", the centre-left coalition led by Romano Prodi.
League for Industrial Democracy The League for Industrial Democracy (or LID) was founded in 1905 by a group of notable socialists including Jack London, Norman Thomas, and Upton Sinclair. Its original name was the Intercollegiate Socialist Society, and its stated purpose was that of "educating Americans about the need to extend democracy to every aspect of our society.
League for Programming Freedom League for Programming Freedom (LPF) was founded in 1989 by Richard Stallman to unite free software developers as well as developers of proprietary software to fight against software patents and the extension of the scope of copyright. Their logo is the Statue of Liberty holding a floppy disk and tape spool.
League for Social Reconstruction The League for Social Reconstruction was a circle of Canadian socialist intellectuals formed in 1931 by academics advocating radical social and economic reforms and political education as a response to the Great Depression.
League for Socialist Action (Canada) The International Left Opposition (Trotskyist) of Canada, the Workers Party of Canada, Socialist Policy Group, Socialist Workers League, Revolutionary Workers Party and the League for Socialist Action were successive Trotskyist organisations in Canada.
League for Socialist Action (UK) The League for Socialist Action was a small Trotskyist organisation in the United Kingdom. It consisted of a group of United Secretariat of the Fourth International (USFI) members who split from the International Marxist Group in the mid-1970s in support of the American Socialist Workers Party's tendency in the USFI.
League for Socialist Reconstruction League for Socialist Reconstruction (LSR) was a DeLeonist political organization with sections in New York City and Michigan. Joseph Brandon, Louis Lazarowitz, Sam Brandon and other LSR members had been active in the Industrial Union Party after mass expulsion of the Socialist Labor Party's Section Bronx during the 1920s.
League for the Fourth International The League for the Fourth International (LFI) is a Trotskyist international organisation. It was formed by members who were expelled from the Spartacist League's international the International Communist League (Fourth Internationalist) in 1996.
League for the Hard of Hearing The League for the Hard of Hearing was founded in New York in 1910 and is the premier hearing rehabilitation and human services agency in the world for infants, children and adults who are hard of hearing, deaf and deaf-blind, and their families. Over the years we have provided services to more than 1,250,000 people with hearing loss.
League Championship Series The League Championship Series (LCS) is the official name for a round of playoffs in Major League Baseball which has been conducted since 1969. In 1981, and since 1995, the two annual series have matched up the winners of the Division Series, and the winners advance to meet in the World Series.
League Leader's Shield The League Leader’s Shield is a trophy awarded to the team finishing the season top of Super League (Europe) in the sport of rugby league. Currently (and for much of its history) the championship is decided on the basis of a play-off series, and the Shield is thus regarded as a lesser prize.
League Managers Association The League Managers Association (LMA) is the organisation which collectively represents all Premiership and Football League managers in English football. The LMA's current chairman is Frank Clark and its chief executive is John Barnwell.
League of American Bicyclists The League of American Bicyclists (LAB), a cyclist's advocacy group was founded in 1880 as the League of American Wheelmen to improve riding conditions within the United States of America. The League was the leading organization advocating for the improvement of roads and highways in the United States throughout the last part of the 19th century, and has continued to serve as the leading membership organization for bicyclists in the US into the 21st century.
League of American Theatres and Producers The League of American Theatres and Producers, Inc. is the national trade association for the commercial theatre industry in North America, representing theatre owners and operators, producers, presenters, and suppliers of goods and services to the theatre community.
League of Arizona Cities and Towns League of Arizona Cities and Towns is a municipal league that provides an important link among the ninety incorporated cities and towns in Arizona. The League is the only organization that connects each and every municipality regardless of size or geographic location.
League of Armed Neutrality League of Armed Neutrality refers to one of two alliances of minor European naval powers (1780-1783 and 1800-1801), both intended to protect neutral shipping against the British Royal Navy's wartime policy of unlimited search of neutral shipping for French contraband. Accounts of the times also refer to these alliances simply as the Armed Neutrality.
League of Blind Women League of Blind Women was a short-lived all-star alternative rock band that included Robert Buck (lead guitar) from 10,000 Maniacs, Jerry Augustyniak (drums) from 10,000 Maniacs, Casey Orr (bass) from GWAR, Mike Scaccia (guitar) from Ministry and Rigor Mortis, Kol Marshall (keyboards) from Critical Mass and See No Evil, and Chris Kelly (vocals). When Casey Orr left the band in March, 1999 to go back to GWAR, Mitch Marine from Tripping Daisy took his place on bass.
League of Blood Incident was a 1932 assassination plot in Japan in which extremists targeted wealthy businessmen and liberal politicians. The group chose twenty victims but succeeded in killing only two: former Finance Minister and head of the Rikken Minseito, Junnosuke Inoue, and Director-General of Mitsui Holding Company, Takuma Dan.
League of Communists of Croatia Communist Party of Croatia (Croatian KomunistiÄŤka Partija Hrvatske, KPH) was the Croatian branch of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (KPJ). From 1952 onwards it was known as League of Communists of Croatia (Croatian Savez Komunista Hrvatske, SKH).
League of Communists of Macedonia League of Communists of Macedonia (in Macedonian: СоŃŃĐ· на комŃниŃтите на МакедониŃĐ°, Sojuz na Komunistite na Makedonija, SKM) was the Macedonian branch of the ruling League of Communists of Yugoslavia during the period 1943 – 1990. The name of the party was Communist Party of Macedonia until April 1952.
League of Communists of Macedonia (1992) League of Communists of Macedonia (in Macedonian: СоŃŃĐ· на комŃниŃтите на МакедониŃĐ°, Sojuz na Komunistite na Makedonija) is a political party in the Republic of Macedonia. The organization was founded in 1992 under the name League of Communists of Macedonia - Freedom Movement, by a small minority of the League of Communists of Macedonia which retained the old name and constituted itself as a distinct political entity.
League of Communists of Montenegro The League of Communists of Montenegro was the Montenegrin branch of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, the sole legal party of Yugoslavia from 1945 to 1990. Under a new constitution ratified in 1974, greater power was devolved to the various republic level branches.
League of Communists of Serbia The League of Communists of Serbia was the Serbian branch of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, the sole legal party of Yugoslavia from 1945 to 1990. Under a new constitution ratified in 1974, greater power was devolved to the various republic level branches.
League of Communists of Slovenia The League of Communists of Slovenia was the Slovenian branch of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, the sole legal party of Yugoslavia from 1945 to 1990. Under a new constitution ratified in 1974, greater power was devolved to the various republic level branches.
League of Communists of Yugoslavia League of Communists of Yugoslavia (Savez komunista Jugoslavije), before 1952 the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (KomunistiÄŤka partija Jugoslavije), was a major Communist party in Yugoslavia. The party was founded as an opposition party in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in 1919.
League of Communists of Yugoslavia in Serbia League of Communists of Yugoslavia in Serbia (Serbo-Croat: Савез комŃниŃŃ‚Đ° ĐŃгоŃлавиŃе Ń ĐˇŃ€Đ±Đ¸Ńи or Savez komunista Jugoslavije u Srbiji) is a political party in Serbia. SKJuS was formed following a split from the League of Communists of Yugoslavia (SKJ).
League of Composers The League of Composers/International Society for Contemporary Music is a society whose stated mission is "to produce the highest quality performances of new music, to champion American composers in the United States and abroad, and to introduce American audiences to the best new music from around the world." It was founded in New York City in 1923 as an American arm of International Society for Contemporary Music.
League of Conservation Voters The League of Conservation Voters is a nonpartisan American independent political voice for the environment. LCV's mission is to "advocate for sound environmental policies and to elect pro-environmental candidates who will adopt and implement such policies.
League of Corinth The League of Corinth (original name: Hellenes - 'The Greeks') was a federation of Greek states created by Philip II of Macedon during the winter of 338 BC/337 BC to facilitate his use of military forces in his war against Persia. The name 'league of Corinth' was coined by modern historians.
League of Democratic Socialists The League of Democratic Socialists (Bund Demokratischer Sozialisten) is an Austrian political party formerly affiliated with the World Socialist Movement, though unlike most other WSM parties, it did not start as an offshoot of the Socialist Party of Great Britain.
League of Diet Members Believing the Objectives of the Holy War The League of Diet Members Believing the Objectives of the Holy War was set up by a group of the Diet of Japan, in support of Japanese government policy in pursuing the Second Sino-Japanese War. It was disbanded later, during the advanced stages of the Pacific War.
League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots The League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots, or LEMUR, is a Brooklyn-based group of artists and technologists developing robotic musical instruments. Founded in 2000 by musician and engineer Eric Singer, LEMUR's philosophy is to build robotic instruments that play themselves.
League of Empire Loyalists The League of Empire Loyalists was a pressure group (also called a 'ginger group' in Gt Britain and the British Commonwealth; see below for context), established in 1954, campaigning against the dissolution of the British Empire in the 1950s and 1960s.
League of European Research Universities According to its mission statement, the League of European Research Universities (LERU) is "a group of European research-intensive universities committed to the values of high quality teaching within an environment of internationally competitive research."
League of Free Liberals The League of Free Liberals (in Dutch: Bond van Vrije Liberalen) was a dutch conservative liberal political party and a predecessor of the Liberal State Party which is historically linked to the VVD, the major Dutch liberal party.
League of Gentlemen (band) League of Gentlemen was a late-1970s band featuring guitarist Robert Fripp of King Crimson. Other members included bass guitarist Sara Lee (who later joined Gang of Four), keyboardist Barry Andrews (formerly of XTC; later of Shriekback) and percussionist Johnny B.
League of Ireland Shield The League of Ireland Shield is a defunct Irish football tournament which was introduced when the League of Ireland started in 1921 and ran uninterrupted until 1972. It was played before the league season began and was seen as the 3rd most important trophy in Irish football, bhind the league and FAI Cup.
League of Jewish Women The League of Jewish Women is one of the leading voluntary Jewish women's service organisations in the United Kingdom. Affiliated to more than 30 other national and international organisations, membership is open to all Jewish women.
League of Lezhë The League of Lezhë was the first coordinated Albanian Independence movement, led by Gjergj Kastrioti, or Skanderbeg. When the four Albanian-Ottoman vilayets attempted to secede from the Ottoman Empire they were weak and full of disunity.
League of Liberators The League of Liberators (in Estonian: Vabadussõjalaste Liit, vabadussõjalased, or colloquially vapsid) was an Estonian association of veterans of the Estonian Liberation War (1918-1920) against the Soviets. The organisation was of proto-fascist nature and allegedly tried twice to overthrow the government of Konstantin Päts, once in 1933 and a second time in December 1935.
League of Nations mandate A League of Nations mandate refers to several territories established under Article 22 of the Covenant of the League of Nations, 28 June 1919. Upon the entry into force of the Charter of the United Nations in late 1945, the mandates of the League of Nations (except for South-West Africa) became United Nations Trust Territories, as agreed to earlier at the Yalta Conference.
League of Nations members Between 1920 and 1946, a total of 63 countries became members of the League of Nations. The Covenant forming the League of Nations was included in the Treaty of Versailles and came into force on 10 January 1920.
League of Palestinian Communists League of Palestinian Communists (in Arabic: عصبة الشيŮعيين الŮلسطينيين) was a small Palestinian communist group in Syria. It was formed by Palestinian communist that did not join the Palestinian Communist Party when it was reorganized in 1982.
League of Peace and Freedom The Inaugural Congress of the League of Peace and Freedom was originally planned for September 5, 1867 in Geneva. Emile Acollas set up the League’s Organising Committee which enlisted the support of John Stuart Mill, Elisée Reclus and his brother Elie Reclus.
League of Peoples The League of Peoples is a fictional interstellar polity present in a series of novels by science fiction author James Alan Gardner. Although theoretically made up of every sentient race in the galaxy, in actuality the League is controlled by (from Humanity's standpoint) hyperadvanced beings who have little concern for wants, needs, and desires of the less evolved races.
League of Polish Families The League of Polish Families (Liga Polskich Rodzin, or LPR) is a conservative and nationalist-minded political party within the Polish Parliament, and a coalition partner in Poland's current ruling government. The media in some western European countries have depicted the party as distasteful, and it is widely regarded by them as being a far-right party.
League of Professional System Administrators The League of Professional System Administrators, or LOPSA, is a non-profit organization. The organization's mission is "to advance the practice of system administration; to support, recognize, educate, and encourage its practitioners; and to serve the public through education and outreach on system administration issues.
League of Revolutionaries for a New America The League of Revolutionaries for a New America (LRNA) is a communist party in the United States founded by a group in California around Nelson Peery who split from the Communist Party USA in 1958. It was part of Provisional Organizing Committee to Reconstitute a Marxist Leninist Party (POC), which felt the Communist Party USA was supporting revisionism in the Soviet Union.
League of Social Democrats The League of Social Democrats (Chinese:社ćść°‘主連線) is a radical pro-democratic political organization in Hong Kong. Its purpose is to "take a clear-cut stand to defend the interests of the grassroots"(ć——ĺąźé®®ćŽĺś°ć‚Ťčˇ›ĺźşĺ±¤ĺ©ç›Š).
League of Struggle for Negro Rights The League of Struggle for Negro Rights was organized by the Communist Party in 1930 as the successor to the American Negro Labor Congress. The League was particularly active in organizing support for the "Scottsboro Boys", nine black men sentenced to death in 1931 for crimes they had not committed.
League of the Holy Court The League of the Holy Court, Vehmgericht, or just the Vehm was a secret tribunal of Westphalia during the Middle Ages, the principal seat of which was in Dortmund. Traditionally founded in the year 772 CE by Charlemagnepg.
League of the Public Weal The League of the Public Weal was an alliance of feudal nobles organized in 1465 in defiance of the centralized authority of the French King, Louis XI, masterminded by Charles the Bold, Count of Charolais, son of the Duke of Burgundy, with the king's brother Charles, Duke of Berry,as a figurehead.
League of the South The League of the South is a Southern nationalist organization whose ultimate goal is "a free and independent Southern republic."League of the South website The group defines the Southern United States as the states that made up the former Confederacy, plus Oklahoma, Missouri, Kentucky, and Maryland.
League of the Ten Jurisdictions The League of the Ten Jurisdictions (Zehngerichtebund) of Raetia (the later Grisons) was established in 1436 by the people of ten bailiwicks in the former county of Toggenburg, as the dynasty of Toggenburg had become extinct.
League of the Three Emperors The League of the Three Emperors, also known as the Three Emperors' League (), was an 1873 alliance among the emperors of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Russia, the three largest powers in Eastern and Central Europe at the time. It is widely considered to be a long-term cause of World War I and was intended to stand in opposition to increasingly liberal forms of government to the west.
League of United Latin American Citizens The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) is a left wing political advocacy group for Latinos in the United States. Founded in 1929 in Corpus Christi, Texas, LULAC is the nation's oldest Hispanic organization.
League Of Their Own 2006 League Of Their Own 2006 is a black-and-white nude calendar featuring 12 of the sexiest Australian rugby league players from the National Rugby League competition. The calendar was released in December 2005 and was produced in the same erotic style that has made French rugby's annual Dieux du Stade calendars so successful, with the players being photographed nude separately in various different locations, both indoors and outdoors.
League Park I (Cincinnati) League Park was the name used for two different baseball parks that formerly stood in Cincinnati, Ohio. They were both home fields of the team now known as the Cincinnati Reds of the National League and American Association.
League system A league system is a hierarchy of leagues in a sport that teams can be promoted or relegated between, depending on finishing positions or playoffs. They are often called pyramids due to their tendency to have more (regional) divisions at the bottom.
League table A league table is a chart or list which compares sports teams, institutions or companies by ranking them in order of ability or achievement. In the United Kingdom, many public-sector industries, including hospitals, compete in league tables.
League tables of British universities League Tables of British Universities, which rank the performances of universities in the United Kingdom on a number of criteria, have been published every year by The Times newspaper since the early 1990s. The factors used to assess universities include quality of teaching and research (which are assessed by external inspectors), entry standards and dropout rates.
Leah Ayres Leah Ayres (born Leah Simpson on May 28, 1957 in Baltimore, Maryland) played Marcia in the six episode drama series The Bradys, one of the many spin offs to the Brady Bunch. It was produced in 1989 and premiered on February 6, 1990.
Leah Betts Leah Betts (November 11, 1977 - November 16, 1995) was a schoolgirl from Latchingdon in Essex, England. She is notable for the extensive media coverage that followed her death several days after her 18th birthday, on November 11, during which she took an ecstasy tablet, then collapsed four hours later into a coma, from which she did not recover.
Leah Brahms Leah Brahms, a character in the Star Trek fictional universe, was one of the main engineers responsible for developing the warp drive on Galaxy class starships, most notably the USS Enterprise-D. Leah Brahms is played by Susan Gibney.
Leah Cairns Leah Cairns (born in Kamloops, British Columbia) is a Canadian actress. She currently stars as one of the Raptor pilots, Lieutenant Margaret "Racetrack" Edmondson, on the Sci Fi Channel television program Battlestar Galactica.
Leah Goldberg Leah Goldberg (May 29, 1911- January 15, 1970) was a Hebrew poet and student of literature who is considered one of Israel's classic poets. Born in KönigsbergLeah Goldberg listed two contradictory birth places: in a 1956 biographical manuscript she wrote that she was born in Königsberg, but when filling in a form for the Israeli authors' association in 1964 she listed her birth place as Kaunas.
Leah Hackett Leah Hackett (born August 1985) is an English actress from Leigh, Wigan, Greater Manchester, and brought up in Tyldesley. She attended Fred Longworths High School and later trained at The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA), which she appeared in a number of stage productions.
Leah Isadora Behn Leah Isadora Behn (born April 8 2005) is the second daughter of Princess Märtha Louise of Norway and husband Ari Behn. She was born at the princess's summer residence Bloksbjerg at Hankø island, in the municipality of Fredrikstad.
Leah Manning Dame Elizabeth Leah Manning (April 14, 1886 – September 15, 1977) was an educationalist, social reformer, and Labour Member of Parliament in the 1930s and 1940s. She organised the evacuation of orphaned or at risk Basque children during the Spanish Civil War.
Leah Meyerhoff Leah Meyerhoff (born December 4, 1979 in San Francisco, California) is a Student Academy Award nominated filmmaker. Her films have screened in over 100 film festivals worldwide and won a dozen international awards.
Leah Pipes Leah Marie Pipes (born August 12, 1988 in Los Angeles, California) is an American actress. She was a regular on the TV series Lost at Home and appeared in the Disney Channel Original Movie Pixel Perfect with Ricky Ullman.
Leah Price Leah Price is a professor of English and American Literature at Harvard University, where her specialties are in the novel, literary journalism, the history of books and reading, and narrative theory, as well as on the culture of the eighteenth and nineteenth-centuries and British fiction in the nineteenth and twentieth-centuries. Price's best known publication is the book, The Anthology and the Rise of the Novel, and is editor of Literary Secretaries/Secretarial Culture.
Leah Rose Leah Rose is a fictional character in the Left Behind series. Former head nurse at Arthur Young Memorial Hospital in Palatine, Illinois, she helped Cameron "Buck" Williams get Ken Ritz out without compromising the Tribulation Force's cover, and after helping deliver Hattie Durham's stillborn baby that was fathered by Antichrist Nicolae Carpathia, abandons her now-compromised job and must request sanctuary at the Trib Force safe house.
Leahy Leahy is the name of a Canadian folk music group. The eight band members, all from the Leahy family of eleven siblings, are from Lakefield, Ontario and have been actively touring Canada and internationally since the early 1980s when they were known as The Leahy Family.
Leahy class cruiser Leahy class cruisers were a class of guided missile cruisers built for the United States Navy. They were originally designated as DLG destroyers, but in the 1975 cruiser realignment, they were reclassified as guided missile cruisers (CG).
Leach Pottery The Leach Pottery was founded by Bernard Leach and Shoji Hamada in St Ives, Cornwall, South West England, in 1920. The pottery is still in existence although now closed awaiting refurbishment as a working pottery, museum and gallery.
Leak A leak is a hole or other opening, usually unintended and therefore undesired, in a container or fluid-containing system, such as a tank or a ship's hull, through which the contents of the container can escape or outside matter can enter the container. The word "leak" is also used as a verb; matter going through the opening is said to leak.
Leak-down tester A leak-down tester is a measuring instrument used to determine the condition of internal combustion engines by introducing compressed air into the cylinder and measuring the rate at which it leaks out. Compression testing is a crude form of leak-down testing which also includes effects due to compression ratio, starter/battery condition and other factors.
Leakage effect The leakage effectis a concept within the study tourism. The term refers to the way in which revenue created through tourism in LEDCs] (Less Economically Developed Countries) can 'leak' back to richer countries.
Leakage inductance Leakage inductance is that property of an electrical transformer that causes a winding to appear to have some self-inductance in series with the mutually-coupled transformer windings. This is due to imperfect coupling of the windings and creation of leakage flux which does not link with all the turns.
Leakey (crater) Leakey is a small, undistinguished lunar impact crater that is located in an area of rough terrain in the eastern part of the Moon. The immediate area is not notable for crater features, although some distance to the southwest is the Capella-Isidorus crater pair.
Leaky abstraction A leaky abstraction is an unsatisfactory implementation of an abstraction. Unsatisfactory means any case when specific implementation details manifest themselves in some obstructive or counter-productive way, thus interfering with the abstraction.
Leaky bucket Although the leaky bucket algorithm has several uses, it is best understood in the context of network traffic shaping or rate limiting. Typically, the algorithm is used to control the rate at which data is injected into a network, smoothing out "burstiness" in the data rate.
Leaky gut syndrome Leaky gut syndrome is a diagnostic entity popular in various branches of alternative medicine. Its proponents hypothesize that damage to the bowel lining, caused by antibiotics, toxins, poor diet, parasites or infection (e.
Leaky mode A leaky mode or tunneling mode in an optical fiber or other waveguide is a mode having an electric field that decays monotonically for a finite distance in the transverse direction but becomes oscillatory everywhere beyond that finite distance. Such a mode gradually "leaks" out of the waveguide as it travels down it, producing attenuation even if the waveguide is perfect in every respect.
LeakyMug LeakyMug is a joint podcast between PotterCast and MuggleCast featuring several staff members from popular Harry Potter fansites The-Leaky-Cauldron & MuggleNet that discusses everything to do with the Harry Potter world (Potterverse). The first show was launched on November 12, 2005.
Lealholm railway station Lealholm railway station serves the village of Lealholm along with Lealholmside and Fryupdale in North Yorkshire, England. It is located on the Esk Valley Line and is operated by Northern Rail who provide all of the station's passenger services.
Lealui Lealui is the dry season residence of the Litunga, king of the Lozi people of western Zambia. At the end of the dry season, as flood waters encroach on the compound, the Litunga moves to Limulunga on higher ground.
Leama & Moor Leama & Moor are a DJ and production duo of Andy Beardmore and Martin Smith hailing from the UK. They have begun their music in 1999 under Leama's solo project with the songs "Requiem For A Dream" and "Melodica" before they officially formed the duo project Leama & Moor.
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