- chief; principal; most important; foremost: a leading toy manufacturer.
- coming in advance of others; first: We rode in the leading car.
- directing, guiding.
- the act of a person or thing that leads.
- a covering or framing of lead: the leading of a stained-glass window.
- lead2 (def. 7).
- guiding, directing, or influencing
- principal or primary
- in the first position
- (of a coefficient) associated with the term of highest degree in a polynomial containing one variable
- the spacing between lines of photocomposed or digitized type
