Leap or LEAP may refer to:

Computing and technology

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 ...

* LEAP (programming language) * Leap Motion, a motion-sensing technology company *

Leap Wireless Leap Wireless International, Inc. was a telecommunications operator that provided wireless services to approximately 4.6 million subscribers, the 5th largest, through its subsidiary, Cricket Communications, Inc. (Cricket Wireless). It was headq ...

, a provider of wireless services *

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 * LEAP, the Low Emissions Analysis Platform energy systems modeling framework

Education

LEAP High School LEAP High School is an Alternative Learning Center (ALC) high school for English Language Learners (ELL) that is part of the Saint Paul Public Schools system in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States. It was founded in autumn of 1994 by Jeff Dufr ...

, a high school for English language students * Leap (education and training), a project in Suffolk, England *

Louisiana Educational Assessment Program The Louisiana Educational Assessment Program (LEAP) is a criterion-reference testing program administered by the state of Louisiana. It is administered to all students from 3rd grade through 8th grade in the subjects of ELA, mathematics, science, ...

(LEAP), including the ''integrated'' Louisiana Educational Assessment Program (''i''LEAP)

Entertainment

* ''Leap'' (Drop Trio album), a 2004 album by Drop Trio * ''Leap'' (James Bay album), a 2022 album by James Bay * Leap (music), a melodic interval * ''Ballerina'' (2016 film), a French/Canadian animated film also known as ''Leap!'' * ''Leap'' (film), a 2020 Chinese biographical film, based on the China women's national volleyball team * "Leap" (''Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'')

Places

Leap, County Cork Leap (; or ''An Léim'') is a village in County Cork, Ireland, situated at the north end of Glandore harbour, several miles inland from the seacoast. It is on the N71 road which runs through West Cork from Cork city. The village is in the pari ...

, a village in Ireland *

Randolph's Leap Randolph's Leap (also known as the Brig of Rannoch) is an SSSI and area of countryside in Moray, Scotland. The area surrounds the River Findhorn and is named after the point at the river where the sheer rock banks are closest. According to le ...

, a country area in Moray, Scotland

Transportation and aerospace

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 *

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 *

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

Law Enforcement Action Partnership The Law Enforcement Action Partnership (LEAP), formerly Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, is a U.S.-based nonprofit organization group of current and former police, judges, prosecutors, and other criminal justice professionals who use their e ...

, crime and law employees who advocate policies in the name of public safety *

Law Enforcement Availability Pay Overtime is the amount of time someone works beyond normal working hours. The term is also used for the pay received for this time. Normal hours may be determined in several ways: *by custom (what is considered healthy or reasonable by society), ...

, a type of premium pay for federal law enforcement officers *

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 *

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 *

Leap2020 LEAP (Laboratoire Européen d'Anticipation Politique, English: European Laboratory of Political Anticipation) is a think tank established to analyse and anticipate global economic developments from a European perspective and to publish a paid-subsc ...

, a think tank analyzing from a European perspective * LEAP, Listen, Empathize, Agree, and Partner(ship).https://leapinstitute.org help method for some mental illnesses.

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