Leaf (disambiguation)
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Leaf is an above-ground plant organ specialized for photosynthesis.
Leaf may also refer to:
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[edit] Various
- Leaf (books), a single sheet, the left-hand page of which is the verso, and right-hand page is the recto
- Metal leaf, a thin metal foil such as gold leaf
- Leaf spring, a common type of vehicle suspension
- Leaf River (disambiguation), the name of several rivers in North America
- Nissan Leaf, an electric car produced by Nissan
[edit] People
- Treeleaf (b. 1988), American variety of leaf from a tree; specializes in dogs.
- Brady Leaf (b. 1984), American football player
- Caroline Leaf (b. 1946), American filmmaker
- Dr. Caroline Leaf (b. 1963), South African brain and learning specialist
- Daniel P. Leaf, Lieutenant General in the U.S. Air Force
- Henry Leaf (1862-1931), 1908 Olympic silver medalist in rackets
- Jonathan Leaf, playwright and journalist
- Richard Leaf (b. 1967), British actor
- Robert Leaf (1936-2005), American composer
- Ryan Leaf (b. 1976), a former American football player
- Shaun Leaf (b. 1984), English rugby league player
- Walter Leaf (1852-1927), English banker, Classical scholar, and commentator on the Iliad and Odyssey
- Pine Leaf, female chief of the Crow tribe
[edit] Fictional characters
- Leaf, a supporting character in The Keys to the Kingdom book series
- Leaf, a rock star Elf from the MySims video game series
- Leaf, the female player character of the Pokemon games Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen
- Leaf, a supporting character in Fire Emblem: Seisen no Keifu and the main character of Fire Emblem: Thracia 776.
[edit] Organisations
- Lake Eden Arts Festival (LEAF), a biannual music and dance festival in Black Mountain, NC
- Leaf (Israeli company), an Israel-based photography company
- Leaf (Japanese company), a Japanese visual novel studio
- Leaf International, a Dutch-Swedish (originally U.S.) confectionery company.
- Women's Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF), a Canadian women's legal advocacy group
- Leaf Books, a small Wales-based publisher
- The Leaf Label, a record label
- Linking and Exploring Authority Files (LEAF), an EU project relating to Encoded Archival Context funded between 2001 and 2004
- Linking Environment And Farming (LEAF), an international charity promoting sustainable agriculture.
[edit] Bands
- Leaves (Icelandic band), a five-piece alternative rock band who formed in 2001
- The Leaves, a 1960s American garage band
- Leaf (Dutch band), a pop band formed in 2005
- Local Enhancement and Appreciation of Forests (LEAF), an environmental organization based in Toronto, Ontario
[edit] Science
- Leaf node, part of a tree data structure in computer science
- Leaf object, an object represented by an end node in a tree structure
- LEAF Project, a collection of Linux distributions dedicated to routing
- The Leaf (AI) Project, a group robot development program involved with artificial intelligence
- A foliation of a manifold is a decomposition of the manifold into a union of submanifolds called leaves
- A leaf vertex in graph theory, of degree 1 in a graph-theoretic tree
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