Lifting

Lifting may refer to:

  • Manual handling of loads
  • Raising objects upwards, for example with lifting equipment
  • Weightlifting, lifting weights for exercise and sport, including:
  • An undesirable type of movement in the sport of racewalking
  • Shoplifting, an unnoticed theft of goods from an open retail establishment
  • Facelifting, a type of cosmetic surgery
  • Lift, a morphism in mathematics
  • Lifting theory, a notion in measure theory
  • Lifting scheme (wavelets)
  • Lambda lifting, meta-process that defines functions independently of each other in a global scope
  • Taking an inference rule in propositional logic and adapting it for predicate logic
  • Type lifting, adding the special null value to the scope of a type

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