Lobe may refer to:
People with the name
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Lobe (surname) Lobe is a surname of German origin. Notable people with the surname include:
* Bill Lobe (1912–1969), American baseball player and coach
* Jim Lobe (born 1949), American journalist
* Kārlis Lobe (1895–1985), Latvian collaborationist with the N ...
Science and healthcare
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Lobe (anatomy)
In anatomy, a lobe is a clear anatomical division or extension of an organ (as seen for example in the brain, lung, liver, or kidney) that can be determined without the use of a microscope at the gross anatomy level. This is in contrast to the mu ...
* Lobe, a large-scale structure of a
radio galaxy
A radio galaxy is a galaxy with giant regions of radio emission extending well beyond its visible structure. These energetic radio lobes are powered by jets from its active galactic nucleus. They have luminosities up to 1039 W at radio wav ...
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Glacial lobe
A glacier (; or ) is a persistent body of dense ice, a form of rock, that is constantly moving downhill under its own weight. A glacier forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation over many years, often centuries. It acquires d ...
, a lobe-shaped
glacier
A glacier (; or ) is a persistent body of dense ice, a form of rock, that is constantly moving downhill under its own weight. A glacier forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation over many years, often centuries. It acquires ...
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Lobation
Lobation is a characteristic of the cell nucleus of certain granulocytes, which are types of white blood cells, where the nucleus is segmented into two or more connected lobes. Of the four types of granulocyte, only the mast cell is not lobated.
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, a characteristic of the nucleus of certain biological cells
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Acoustic lobe Acoustic lobing refers to the radiation pattern of a combination of two or more loudspeaker drivers at a certain frequency, as seen looking at the speaker from its side. In most multi-way speakers, it is at the crossover frequency that the effects o ...
, radiation pattern exhibited by multi-driver loudspeakers
* Delta lobe or deltaic lobe, the projection of a
river delta
A river delta is a landform, archetypically triangular, created by the deposition of the sediments that are carried by the waters of a river, where the river merges with a body of slow-moving water or with a body of stagnant water. The creat ...
mouth into standing water
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Roche lobe
In astronomy, the Roche lobe is the region around a star in a binary system within which orbiting material is gravitationally bound to that star. It is an approximately teardrop-shaped region bounded by a critical gravitational equipotential, ...
, the region of space around a star in a binary system within which orbiting material is gravitationally bound to that star
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Sidelobe
In antenna engineering, sidelobes are the lobes (local maxima) of the far field radiation pattern of an antenna or other radiation source, that are not the ''main lobe''.
The radiation pattern of most antennas shows a pattern of "''lobes'' ...
, an identifiable segment of an antenna radiation pattern
** Grating lobe, a sidelobe that is much higher than all other side lobes, approximately the same as the main beam — exists only in
phased array
In antenna (radio), antenna theory, a phased array usually means an electronically scanned array, a computer-controlled Antenna array, array of antennas which creates a radio beam, beam of radio waves that can be electronically steered to point ...
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Main lobe
In a antenna (electronics), radio antennas, the main lobe or main beam is the region of the radiation pattern containing the highest Power (physics), power or exhibiting the greatest field strength.
The radiation pattern of most antennas shows ...
, the lobe containing the maximum power
Other uses
* Lobe, an oblong protrusion from a
camshaft
A camshaft is a shaft that contains a row of pointed cams in order to convert rotational motion to reciprocating motion. Camshafts are used in piston engines (to operate the intake and exhaust valves), mechanically controlled ignition syst ...
* The Lobe, a character in ''
Freakazoid!
''Freakazoid!'' is an American superhero comedy animated television series created by Bruce Timm and Paul Dini and developed by Tom Ruegger for the Kids' WB programming block of The WB. The series chronicles the adventures of the title char ...
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''Lobes'' (album), a 2023 album by We Are Scientists
See also
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Löbe Löbe and Loebe () are German surnames, and Loebe is also a given name.
Notable people with the surname include:
* Bernd Loebe (born 1952), German journalist, opera manager and festival manager
* János Löbe (born 1995), German football player
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, also spelled Loebe, a German surname
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