Loop
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Loop or LOOP may refer to:
Brands and enterprises
[edit]- Loop (mobile), a Bulgarian virtual network operator and co-founder of Loop Live
- Loop, clothing, a company founded by Carlos Vasquez in the 1990s and worn by Digable Planets
- Loop Mobile, an Indian mobile phone operator
- Loop, a reusable container program announced in 2019 by TerraCycle
Geography
[edit]- Loop, Germany, a municipality in Schleswig-Holstein
- Loop (Texarkana), a roadway loop around Texarkana, Arkansas, United States
- Loop, Blair County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Loop, Indiana County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Loop, West Virginia, United States
- Loop 101, a semi-beltway of the Phoenix Metropolitan Area
- Loop 202, a semi-beltway of the Phoenix Metropolitan Area
- Loop 303, a semi-beltway of the Phoenix Metropolitan Area
- Chicago Loop, the downtown neighborhood of Chicago bounded by the elevated railway The Loop
- Loop Retail Historic District, a shopping district in the Chicago Loop
- Delmar Loop, an entertainment district in St. Louis, Missouri
- London Outer Orbital Path (LOOP), a signed walk around the edge of Outer London, England
- Louisiana Offshore Oil Port (LOOP), a deep-water port in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Louisiana
People
[edit]- Call Me Loop (born 1991), English singer and songwriter
- Liza Loop (active from 1975), American technology pioneer
- Uno Loop (1930–2021), Estonian singer, musician, athlete, actor, and educator
- Victoria Loop, brass and guitar player with English band Half Man Half Biscuit
Arts, entertainment, and media
[edit]Film
[edit]- Loop (1991 film), a British romantic comedy
- Loop (1999 film), a Venezuelan film
- Loop (2020 film), an American animated short
- 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
Music
[edit]Groups
[edit]- Loop (band), a London rock band
Other uses in music
[edit]- Loop (album), a 2002 album by Keller Williams
- Loop (music), a finite element of sound which is repeated by technical means
- "Loop" (Maaya Sakamoto song), 2005
- "Loop" (Sarah Bonnici song), the entry for Malta in the Eurovision Song Contest 2024
- Loop, a 2020 mini-album by Peakboy
Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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, 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
- continue statement (in some languages skip, cycle, next, loop, or iterate), a structured control statement that skips ahead to the next iteration of the loop containing it
Mathematics
[edit]- Loop (algebra), a quasigroup with an identity element
- Loop (graph theory), an edge that begins and ends on the same vertex
- Loop (topology), a path that starts and ends at the same point, possibly reduced to a single point
Sports
[edit]- Aerobatic loop, a type of aerobatic maneuver
- Ground loop (aviation), a rapid horizontal (yawing) rotation of a fixed-wing aircraft used in emergencies to bleed of energy while landing
- Loop, a type of canoe freestyle maneuver
- Loop (cricket), an aspect of bowling in cricket
- Loop jump, a figure skating jump
- Loop, a type of offensive shot in table tennis
Roller coasters
[edit]- Loop (roller coaster), a basic roller coaster inversion
- Pretzel loop, a roller coaster element
Transportation
[edit]- Loop (Amtrak train), a discontinued Amtrak train
- The Loop (CTA), a rapid transit section bounding Chicago's Loop neighborhood
- Loop, underground public transportation system of The Boring Company in Tesla cars, including a proposed DC-to-Baltimore system
- Balloon loop, a section of track that allows reversal of direction without stopping
- Circle route, a public transport route that travels around and connecting the peripheral zones of an area.
- 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
[edit]- Compulsion loop, a habitual chain of activities that will be repeated by the user to cause them to continue the activity
- 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, the end of some dead-end streets
- Loop, a type of fingerprint pattern
See also
[edit]- All pages with titles beginning with Loop
- All pages with titles containing Loop
- The Loop (disambiguation)
- Circle
- Cycle (disambiguation)
- Cycle graph
- Electronic circuit
- Hoop (disambiguation)
- Inner loop (disambiguation)
- Line echo wave pattern (LEWP)
- Loophole
- Looping (disambiguation)
- Loopy (disambiguation)
- Loupe, a small magnifying glass used by jewelers, watchmakers, and other precision craftsmen
- Media control symbols § Symbols
- Möbius strip
- Ring (disambiguation)