Loop

Loop or LOOP may refer to:

Brands and enterprises

• Loop (concept), is a mission-driven social enterprise and a combination of youth movement and tech incubator.
• Loop (mobile), a mobile virtual network operator in Bulgaria
• Loop, clothing a company founded by Carlos Vasquez in the 1990s and worn by Digable Planets
• Loop Mobile, a mobile phone operator in India
• Loop, a reusable container program announced in 2019 by TerraCycle

Geography

• Loop (Texarkana), a roadway loop around Texarkana, Arkansas
• Loop, Germany, a municipality in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
• Loop, West Virginia
• Loop 101, see Arizona State Route 101, a semi-beltway of the Phoenix Metropolitan Area
• Loop 202, see Arizona State Route 202, a semi-beltway of the Phoenix Metropolitan Area
• Loop 303, see Arizona State Route 303, a semi-beltway of the Phoenix Metropolitan Area
• Chicago Loop, the downtown neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois bounded by the elevated railway The Loop (CTA)
  • Loop Retail Historic District, a shopping district in the Chicago Loop
• Delmar Loop, an entertainment district in St. Louis, Missouri
• London Outer Orbital Path (or LOOP), a signed walk around the edge of Outer London, England
• Louisiana Offshore Oil Port (or LOOP), a deep-water port in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Louisiana

People

• Liza Loop, technology pioneer
• LOOP, a London-based singer featured in The Line of Best Fit on 3 March 2017

Arts, entertainment, and media

Film

• Loop (1997 film), a 1997 British romantic comedy
• Loop (1999 film), a 1999 Venezuelan film
• Film loop, the slack portion of the film around the projector lens in a movie projector
• Porn loop, an 8 or 16 mm video "short" of a pornographic nature that could be purchased from men's magazines starting in the 1950s; home video made them obsolete in the late 1970s.

Music

Groups

• Loop (band), a London rock band
• Loop, an alternative rock band from the Philippines

Other uses in music

• Loop (album), a 2002 album by Keller Williams
• Loop (music), a finite element of sound which is repeated by technical means
• "Loop" (song), a song by Maaya Sakamoto

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

• Loop (novel), a novel in the Ring series by Koji Suzuki
• LOOP Barcelona, an annual meeting point for video art in Barcelona, Spain
• Loop Mania, a mobile arcade video game

Computing and technology

• Loop (computing), a method of control flow in computer science
• LOOP (programming language), the pedagogical primitive recursive programming language with bounded loops
• Loop (telecommunication), sending a signal on a channel and receiving it back at the sending terminal
• Audio induction loop, an aid for the hard of hearing
• Local loop, (aka local tail, subscriber line, or the last mile), the physical link in telephony that links the customer premises to the telephone_company (telco)
• Loop device, a Unix device node that allows a file to be mounted as if it were a device
• LOOPS, the object system for Interlisp-D

Mathematics

• Loop (algebra), a quasigroup with an identity element
• Loop (graph theory), an edge that begins and ends on the same vertex
• Loop (topology), a single point of a path that starts and ends at the same point

Sports

• Loop, a type of playboating maneuver
• Aerobatic loop, a type of aircraft aerobatic maneuver
• Flight (cricket) or loop, an aspect of bowling in cricket
• Loop jump, a figure skating jump
• Loop, a type of offensive shot in table tennis

Roller coasters

• Loop (roller coaster), a basic roller coaster inversion
• Pretzel loop, a large inversion found on flying coasters from Bolliger & Mabillard, comprising a downward half loop and upward half loop whose entrance and exit points loop overlap at its peak forming a pretzel shape

Transportation

• Loop (Amtrak train), a discontinued Amtrak train
• Loop, a DC-to-Baltimore underground public transport system proposed by The Boring Company
• Balloon loop, a section of track that allows reversal of direction without stopping
• Loop line (railway), a branch line that deviates from a direct route and rejoins it at another location
• Loop route, a main route or highway that forms a closed loop
• Passing loop, a short section of track that allows trains to pass on a single track route
• Ring road or loop, a main route or highway that encircles a town or city
• Spiral (railway), a section of track that allows a train to climb a steep hill

Other uses

• Loop (biochemistry), a flexible region in a protein's secondary structure
• Loop (education), the process of advancing an elementary school teacher with his or her class
• Loop (knot), one of the fundamental structures used to tie knots
• Loop, a cul de sac
• Loop, a type of fingerprint pattern

See also

• All pages with titles containing Loop
• Circle
• Cycle (disambiguation)
• Cycle graph
• Electronic circuit
• Hoop (disambiguation)
• Inner loop (disambiguation)
• Line echo wave pattern (LEWP)
• Loophole
• Loopy (disambiguation)
• Loupe, a small magnifying glass used by jewelers, watchmakers, and other precision craftsmen
• Möbius strip
• Ring (disambiguation)
• The Loop (disambiguation)