Lobe

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The term lobe generally refers to a projecting part of an object, but it can have more specific meanings.

Contents 1 Biology 2 Telecommunication[1] 3 Astronomy 4 Music 5 References

[edit] Biology

• lobe (anatomy)

[edit] Telecommunication^[1]

• An identifiable segment of an antenna radiation pattern. (Note: A lobe is characterized by a localized maximum bounded by identifiable nulls.)
• A pair of channels between a data station and a lobe attaching unit, one channel for sending and one for receiving, as seen from the point of view of the attached data station.

[edit] Astronomy

• The Roche lobe is the region of space around a star in a binary system within which orbiting material is gravitationally bound to that star

[edit] Music

• Lobe (band) refers to an Edinburgh based musician on Colin Newman & Malka Spigel's swim ~ label.

[edit] References

1. ^ Federal Standard 1037C

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