(military) Being or relating to a method whereby jet fighters and attack aircraft could be near-vertically launched using rocket motors to rapidly gain speed and altitude.

plural of length operator

The length of a cocktail dress, typically around knee length.

A unit of distance in cosmology, defined as the speed of light multiplied by the Hubble time, and equivalent to 4,550 million parsecs or 14.4 billion light years.

(clothing, of a dress) Having a hemline that is below the knees and above the ankle.

An adjusted value of the equivalent focal length, so computed as to equalize the positive and negative values of distortion over the entire field used in a camera.

(military) A technique in which the first motion of the missile or aircraft removes it from the launcher. Normally, such a launch occurs before the missile fuel or aircraft engine is fired.

(computing) The path length from a given node to its nearest descendant null node in a binary tree.

(computing) A simple data compression scheme in which sequences of the same item are replaced by one such item and a count (so for example the text BBBBB is stored as a single B with count of 5).

plural of run-length encoding