Lobe

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

In telecommunication, the term lobe has the following meanings: (Source: from Federal Standard 1037C)
* An identifiable segment of an antenna radiation pattern. (Note: A lobe is characterized by a localized maximum bounded by identifiable nulls.)
* 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 anatomy, lobe can refer to:
* Divisions of the brain. In humans there are four lobes: the frontal lobe, the parietal lobe, the occipital lobe and the temporal lobe
* The earlobe
* More generally, a lobe may refer to divisions of an organ or other unit, such as the lobes of the lung, the liver or a leaf. A "lobule" is a small lobe.

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

The villain from the animated series Freakazoid

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