Leap or LEAP may refer to:
Computing and technology
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Leap (computer worm)
The Oompa-Loompa malware, also called OSX/Oomp-A or Leap.A, is an application-infecting, LAN-spreading computer worm, worm for Mac OS X, discovered by the Apple Inc., Apple security firm Intego on February 14, 2006. Leap cannot spread over the I ...
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LEAP (programming language)
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Leap Motion, a motion-sensing technology company
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Leap Wireless, a provider of wireless services
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Lightweight Extensible Authentication Protocol Lightweight Extensible Authentication Protocol (LEAP) is a proprietary wireless LAN authentication method developed by Cisco Systems. Important features of LEAP are dynamic WEP keys and mutual authentication (between a wireless client and a RADIUS ...
, for wireless computer networks
* Local-electrode
atom probe
The atom probe was introduced at th14th Field Emission Symposium in 1967by Erwin Wilhelm Müller and J. A. Panitz. It combined a field ion microscope with a mass spectrometer having a single particle detection capability and, for the first tim ...
, an atomic-resolution microscope
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LEAP, the Low Emissions Analysis Platform energy systems modeling framework
Education
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LEAP High School, a high school for English language students
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Leap (education and training), a project in Suffolk, England
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Louisiana Educational Assessment Program (LEAP), including the ''integrated'' Louisiana Educational Assessment Program (''i''LEAP)
Entertainment
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''Leap'' (Drop Trio album), a 2004 album by Drop Trio
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''Leap'' (James Bay album), a 2022 album by James Bay
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Leap (music), a melodic interval
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''Ballerina'' (2016 film), a French/Canadian animated film also known as ''Leap!''
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''Leap'' (film), a 2020 Chinese biographical film, based on the China women's national volleyball team
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"Leap" (''Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'')
Places
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Leap, County Cork, a village in Ireland
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Randolph's Leap, a country area in Moray, Scotland
Transportation and aerospace
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CFM International LEAP
The CFM International LEAP ("Leading Edge Aviation Propulsion") is a high-bypass turbofan engine produced by CFM International, a 50–50 joint venture between the American GE Aerospace and the French Safran Aircraft Engines. As the successor ...
, a turbofan jet engine
* LEAP, ICAO code for
Empuriabrava
Empuriabrava () is a community in the municipality of Castelló d'Empúries, in the Alt Empordà (Costa Brava, province of Girona, Catalonia, Spain). It is located in the Gulf of Roses, surrounded by the Natural Park of the Aiguamolls de l'Em ...
Airfield in Girona province in Spain
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LEAPTech
The NASA X-57 Maxwell was an experimental aircraft developed by NASA, intended to demonstrate technology to reduce fuel use, emissions, and noise. The first flight of the X-57 was scheduled to take place in 2023, but the program was cancelle ...
(Leading Edge Asynchronous Propeller Technology), a NASA project to demonstrate distributed electric propulsion for future aircraft
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Lightweight Exo-Atmospheric Projectile
The Lightweight Exo-atmospheric Projectile (LEAP) is a lightweight miniaturized kinetic kill vehicle designed to destroy incoming ballistic missiles both inside and outside the Earth's atmosphere.Paul Baker, Buster Kelley, Anne Avetissian, ''Li ...
, a lightweight miniaturized kinetic kill vehicle
Other uses
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Law Enforcement Action Partnership, crime and law employees who advocate policies in the name of public safety
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Law Enforcement Availability Pay, a type of premium pay for federal law enforcement officers
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Leap Manifesto
The Leap Manifesto is a Canadian political manifesto that was issued by a coalition of environmentalists, Indigenous, labour, and faith leaders, authors, and artists in September 2015 in the context of that year's Canadian federal election ca ...
, Canadian activist manifesto during 2015 campaign
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LEAPS (finance)
In finance, Long-term Equity AnticiPation Securities (LEAPS) are derivatives that track the price of an underlying financial instrument (stocks or indices). They are option contracts with a much longer time to expiry than standard options. Accor ...
, long-term stock options
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Leap2020, a think tank analyzing from a European perspective
* LEAP, Listen, Empathize, Agree, and Partner(ship).
[https://leapinstitute.org] help method for some mental illnesses.
See also
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The Leap (disambiguation)
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Giant Leap (disambiguation)
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Great Leap (disambiguation)
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Leap of faith (disambiguation)
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Leapfrog (disambiguation)
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Leap second
A leap second is a one-second adjustment that is occasionally applied to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), to accommodate the difference between precise time (International Atomic Time (TAI), as measured by atomic clocks) and imprecise solar tim ...
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Leap year (disambiguation)
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LEEP (disambiguation)
* Quantum leap, an
Atomic electron transition
In atomic physics and chemistry, an atomic electron transition (also called an atomic transition, quantum jump, or quantum leap) is an electron changing from one energy level to another within an atom or artificial atom. The time scale of a qua ...
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