LEAP

Leap may refer to:

  • Jumping
  • Leap (album), a 2004 album by progressive jazz group Drop Trio
  • Leap (education and training),a project based in Suffolk, England
  • Leap (music), a melodic interval
  • Leap, County Cork, a village in Ireland
  • Leap, County Laois, a townland in County Laois, Ireland
  • Great Leap Forward, the period (1958 to 1961) of the 2nd 5-year plan in China
  • Leap of leopards, a collective noun
  • Leap Wireless, a provider of wireless services
  • Leap Motion, a motion-sensing technology (for human–computer interaction) company; 2012 devices

LEAP may mean:

  • LEAP:Long range Energy Alternatives Planning System: a software tool for energy and environmental planning.
  • LEAPS (finance), long-term stock options
  • LEAP programming language
  • Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, an organization of current and former police officers and other law enforcement officials that oppose drug prohibition
  • Law Enforcement Assistance Program (L.E.A.P.), a computerised system used by the Victoria Police in Australia
  • Law Enforcement Availability Pay - A US federal Law enforcement benefit
  • Lightweight Exo-Atmospheric Projectile (LEAP) see RIM-161 Standard missile 3
  • Lightweight Extensible Authentication Protocol for wireless computer networks
  • Literacy, Education and Abilities Program, a Scientology-connected group affiliated with Applied Scholastics
  • Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty, the social welfare programm of Ghana
  • Local Employment Access Projects, which help people from disadvantaged communities find employment
  • Localized Encryption and Authentication Protocol for Sensor Networks
  • Local-electrode atom probe, an atomic-resolution microscope
  • Leap Personal Publisher, as of at least 2009 known as iLeap
  • Louisiana Educational Assessment Program (LEAP), including the integrated Louisiana Educational Assessment Program (iLEAP)
  • LEAP2020 or Leap2020 (Laboratoire EuropĂ©en d'Anticipation Politique), the Global European Anticipation Bulletin or GEAB
  • LEAP is also the ICAO code for Empuriabrava Airfield at Girona province in Spain.
  • LEAP English Academy: Former official name for International Academy - LEAP

Famous quotes containing the word leap:

    “Many a time I have seen my mother leap up from the dinner table to engage the swarming flies with an improvised punkah, and heard her rejoice and give humble thanks simultaneously that Baltimore was not the sinkhole that Washington was.”
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)

    “Athletes have studied how to leap and how to survive the leap some of the time and return to the ground. They don’t always do it well. But they are our philosophers of actual moments and the body and soul in them, and of our manoeuvres in our emergencies and longings.”
    —Harold Brodkey (b. 1930)

    “Our enemies have beat us to the pit.
    It is more worthy to leap in ourselves
    Than tarry till they push us.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)