Linda

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Linda can refer to:

• Linda (name), a female given name (including a list of people with this as their given name)
• Linda (1946 song), a popular song written by Jack Lawrence
• Linda (album), the title of an album by Miguel Bosé
• Linda (musician), a Russian musician who is the main vocalist of the band with the same name
• Linda (Greek mythology), a daughter of Danaus who was worshipped on the island of Rhodes, especially in Lindos
• Linda (Estonian mythology), the mother of Kalevipoeg and the wife of Kalev

[edit] Geography

• Linda, California, a census-designated place in Yuba County, California
• Linda, Tasmania, a town near Mount Lyell and adjacent to the town of Gormanston, Tanzania
• Linda, Abkhazia, an Estonian village in Abkhazia, Georgia

[edit] Meteorology

• Tropical Storm Linda (1985)
• Hurricane Linda (1991)
• Typhoon Linda (1997)
• Hurricane Linda (1997) - A powerful Category 5 hurricane, the most intense East Pacific hurricane.
• Hurricane Linda (2003)

[edit] Science and technology

• Linda (crater), a small crater on the moon.
• Langmuir Interferometer and Density Experiment for Astrid-2 (acronym: LINDA) is a double Langmuir Probe instrument which measures density fluctuations in auroral plasma.
• Linda (coordination language), a coordination programming language initially developed by David Gelernter and Nicolas Carriero.
• Laser-Induced Neutralization Diagnostic Approach (acronym: LINDA) is a measuring technique which uses a short-duration laser pulse to calculate particle-bleam longitudinal phase space.