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The term 'lobe' generally refers to a projecting part of an object, but it can have more specific meanings.

★ In biology, lobe (anatomy)

★ In telecommunication, the term 'lobe' has the following meanings: (Source: from Federal Standard 1037C)

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★ An identifiable segment of an antenna radiation pattern. (''Note'': A lobe is characterized by a localized maximum bounded by identifiable nulls.)

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★ A pair of channels between a data station and a lobe attaching unit, one channel for sending and one for receiving, as seen from the point of view of the attached data station.

★ In astronomy, the Roche lobe is the region of space around a star in a binary system within which orbiting material is gravitationally bound to that star