LEO (meaning link everything online) is an internet site run by the computer science department of the Technische Universität München in Munich, Germany. It is well known for its software archive which mirrors several important open-source servers and its free online dictionaries. Computer science, or computing science, is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and their implementation and application in computer systems. ... Munich University of Technology, or Technical University of Munich (TUM) (German: Technische Universität München, TUM), is a major German university, located in Munich (and the towns of Garching and Weihenstephan out of Munich). ... Munich: Frauenkirche and Town Hall steeple Munich (German: München, pronounced listen) is the capital of the German Federal State of Bavaria (German: Freistaat Bayern). ... Computer software (or simply software) refers to one or more computer programs and data held in the storage of a computer for some purpose. ... Mirror (computing) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... It has been suggested that Open source culture be merged into this article or section. ... A dictionary is a list of words with their definitions, a list of characters with their glyphs, or a list of words with corresponding words in other languages. ...

Dictionaries

The website hosts three free online dictionaries and fora for additional language queries. The dictionaries are characterized by providing translations in forms of hyperlinks to further dictionary queries, thereby facilitating back translations. The dictionaries are partly extended and corrected by large vocabulary donations of individuals or companies, partly through suggestions and discussions on the respective LEO language fora. A hyperlink (often referred to as simply a link), is a reference or navigation element in a document to another section of the same document, another document, or a specified section of another document, that automatically brings the referred information to the user when the navigation element is selected by... Look up translate in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

Since April 1, 2006 the dictionaries have been run (in co-operation with Munich University) by the limited liability company Leo GmbH, formed from the members of the old Leo team. April 1 is the 91st day of the year (92nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 274 days remaining. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung (GmbH or GesmbH) is a type of legal entity created in Germany in 1892. ...

English-German

The English-German dictionary run by Leo since 1995 contains more than 430,000 entries and receives an average of 6 to 7 million queries per day.^[1] The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

French-German

In 2004, a French-German dictionary was added to the site's services, with about 146,000 entries. This gets about 600,000 queries a day.^[2] 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Spanish-German

A Spanish-German dictionary with today more than 100,000 entries was introduced on April 1, 2006. It gets about 240,000 queries a day.^[3] April 1 is the 91st day of the year (92nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 274 days remaining. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

History

The site grew out of a network of FTP software and archived data which was put together by students at Munich University of Technology and Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich even before HTML and HTTP existed. The original aim was to create a single, huge archive by linking up archives run by the different research groups. The archive was sorted thematically and the different sections organised and kept up to date by archivists. FTP or file transfer protocol is used to connect two computers over the Internet so that the user of one computer can transfer files and perform file commands on the other computer. ... Main building of the Ludwig Maximilians University The Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich (German: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München or LMU) is with approximately 48,000 students the second largest university in Germany (surpassed only by the University of Cologne) and generally considered one of the best universities of... In computing, HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is a predominant markup language for the creation of web pages. ... Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is a method used to transfer or convey information on the World Wide Web. ...

When the World Wide Web came into common use, HTTP access to the archive was at first added as an alternative to FTP. Students developed various services in their free time, in particular the dictionaries. WWWs historical logo designed by Robert Cailliau The World Wide Web (WWW or simply the Web) is a global, read-write information space. ...

Name

The name of the site is actually a backronym from the name Leo: the Bavarian coat of arms features a lion. Originally, the service was named ISAR, but it had to be renamed as there was another firm of the same name. A backronym or bacronym is a type of acronym that begins as an ordinary word, and is later interpreted as an acronym. ... The Free State of Bavaria  (German: Freistaat Bayern), with an area of 70,553 km² (27,241 square miles) and 12. ... A modern coat of arms is derived from the medi val practice of painting designs onto the shield and outer clothing of knights to enable them to be identified in battle, and later in tournaments. ... Binomial name Panthera leo (Linnaeus, 1758) Synonyms Felis leo (Linnaeus, 1758) The lion (Panthera leo) is a mammal of the family Felidae and one of four big cats in the genus Panthera. ...

References

Some of this article was translated from the German language version of this page.

1. ^ English-German Query Statistics of dict.leo.org
2. ^ French-German Query Statistics of dict.leo.org
3. ^ Spanish-German Query Statistics of dict.leo.org

External links

• LEO's entry page (in German)
• The dictionary (in German)
• The dictionary (in English)