Leap

See also: LEEP

A leap is a jump or big step forward.

Leap or LEAP may refer to:

Computing and technology

• Leap (computer worm)
• LEAP (programming language)
• Leap Motion, a motion-sensing technology company
• Leap Wireless, a provider of wireless services
• Lightweight Extensible Authentication Protocol, for wireless computer networks
• Local-electrode atom probe, an atomic-resolution microscope

Education

• LEAP High School, a high school for English language students
• Leap (education and training), a project in Suffolk, England
• Louisiana Educational Assessment Program (LEAP), including the integrated Louisiana Educational Assessment Program (iLEAP)

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
• Leap!, a 2016 French/Canadian animated film also known as Ballerina
• The Leap, a fantasy novel by Jonathan Stroud, 2001
• "The Leap" (How I Met Your Mother), episode of the TV show
• Leap (film), a 2020 Chinese biographical film, based on the China women's national volleyball team

Places

• Leap, County Cork, a village in Ireland
• The Leap, Queensland, Australia
• Randolph's Leap, a country area in Moray, Scotland

Transportation and aerospace

• CFM International LEAP, a turbofan jet engine
• LEAP, ICAO code for Empuriabrava Airfield in Girona province in Spain
• LEAPTech (Leading Edge Asynchronous Propeller Technology), a NASA project to demonstrate distributed electric propulsion for future aircraft
• Lightweight Exo-Atmospheric Projectile, a lightweight miniaturized kinetic kill vehicle

Other uses

• Law Enforcement Action Partnership, crime and law employees who advocate policies in the name of public safety
• Law Enforcement Availability Pay, a type of premium pay for federal law enforcement officers
• Leap Manifesto, Canadian activist manifesto during 2015 campaign
• LEAPS (finance), long-term stock options
• Leap2020, a think tank analyzing from a European perspective

See also

• Giant Leap (disambiguation)
• Great Leap (disambiguation)
• Leap of faith (disambiguation)
• Leapfrog (disambiguation)
• Leap second
• Leap year (disambiguation)
• LEEP (disambiguation)
• Quantum leap, an Atomic electron transition