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LEO (meaning link everything online) is an
internet site initiated 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.
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Dictionaries
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1.1
English-German
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1.2
French-German
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1.3
Spanish-German
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History
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Name
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References
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External links
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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.
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.
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]
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]
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]
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.
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.
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.
References
- Some of this article was translated from the
German language version of this page.
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English-German Query Statistics of dict.leo.org
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French-German Query Statistics of dict.leo.org
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Spanish-German Query Statistics of dict.leo.org
External links
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LEO's entry page (in German)
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The dictionary (in German)
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The dictionary (in English)
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