Loop
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Loop or LOOP may refer to:
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
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
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)