Lifting may refer to: *

Manual handling of loads Manual handling of loads (MHL), manual material handling (MMH) involves the use of the human body to lift, lower, carry or transfer loads. The average person is exposed to manual lifting of loads in the work place, in recreational atmospheres, and ...

*Raising objects upwards, for example with

lifting equipment Lifting equipment, also known as lifting gear, is a general term for any equipment that can be used to lift and lower loads. Types of lifting equipment include heavy machinery such as the patient lift, overhead cranes, forklifts, jacks, building ...

* Weightlifting, lifting weights for exercise and sport, including: ** Olympic weightlifting, an Olympic sport that tests explosive strength ** Powerlifting, a sport that tests limit strength ** Weight training, a way of increasing strength * An undesirable type of movement in the sport of racewalking * Shoplifting, an unnoticed theft of goods from an open retail establishment *

Facelift A facelift, technically known as a rhytidectomy (from the Ancient Greek () "wrinkle", and () "excision", the surgical removal of wrinkles), is a type of cosmetic surgery procedure used to give a more youthful facial appearance. There are mult ...

ing, a type of cosmetic surgery * Lift, a morphism in mathematics *

Lifting theory In mathematics, lifting theory was first introduced by John von Neumann in a pioneering paper from 1931, in which he answered a question raised by Alfréd Haar. The theory was further developed by Dorothy Maharam (1958) and by Alexandra Ionescu Tu ...

, a notion in measure theory *

Lifting scheme The lifting scheme is a technique for both designing wavelets and performing the discrete wavelet transform (DWT). In an implementation, it is often worthwhile to merge these steps and design the wavelet filters ''while'' performing the wavelet tr ...

(wavelets) *

Lambda lifting Lambda lifting is a meta-process that restructures a computer program so that functions are defined independently of each other in a global scope. An individual "lift" transforms a local function into a global function. It is a two step process, ...

, meta-process that defines functions independently of each other in a global scope * Taking an inference rule in propositional logic and adapting it for predicate logic * Type lifting, adding the special value to the scope of a type

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