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Loop or LOOP may refer to:

Geography

People

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

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

Brands and enterprises

  • 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

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

Sports

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

See also