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Lobe

In telecommunication, the term lobe has the following meanings:
  1. An identifiable segment of an antenna radiation pattern. (Note: A lobe is characterized by a localized maximum bounded by identifiable nulls.)
  2. 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.
Source: from Federal Standard 1037C
In anatomy, a lobe may refer to divisions of an organ or other unit, such as the lobes of the lung and the liver.

 

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