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Loon Lake (California)
Loon Lake is a reservoir in the Sierra Nevada of El Dorado County, California, about 35 miles northeast of Placerville, impounded by a dam SMUD completed in 1963.
Loon LLC
Loon LLC, also known as Project Loon, was an Alphabet subsidiary using stratospheric balloons to deliver 4G internet, launched in Kenya in 2020 and shut down in 2021.
Loona (ΠΔ)
Loona (LOOΠΔ; 이달의 소녀, Idal-ui sonyeo) was a twelve-member South Korean girl group under BlockBerry Creative, debuted August 2018 after a monthly-reveal project; all members left after 2023 court rulings, re-debuting in ARTMS and Loossemble.
Loonatics Unleashed
Loonatics Unleashed is a Warner Bros. Animation action-comedy (2005–2007, Kids' WB, 26 episodes) reimagining Looney Tunes characters as superhero descendants in 2772 Acmetropolis after a meteor strike; created by Christian and Yvon Tremblay, controversial for its edgy redesigns.
Looney Tunes
Looney Tunes: Warner Bros.' animated short series (1930s-1960s) starring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and Porky Pig, created via Leon Schlesinger's Termite Terrace unit; now a revived theatrical franchise with Coyote vs. Acme and Daffy Season.
Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies filmography
Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies filmography: Warner Bros.' companion cartoon series, begun 1930 and 1931, totaling about 1,000 classic theatrical shorts (1930-1969), plus later revivals, features, home media restoration status, and streaming availability.
Looney Tunes Cartoons
Looney Tunes Cartoons is a 2020-2024 Warner Bros. Animation anthology series on HBO Max reviving classic Looney Tunes shorts in hand-drawn form; 6 seasons, 229 episodes, 209 shorts, Emmy-nominated, led by Peter Browngardt and Eric Bauza.
Looney Tunes Collector's Vault
Looney Tunes Collector's Vault is a series of two-disc Blu-ray sets from Warner Archive. Volumes have been released since 2025, featuring classic Warner Bros. cartoons in high definition.
Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 3
Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 3 is Warner Home Video's final Platinum Collection release (Blu-ray August 12, 2014; DVD November 4, 2014): a two-disc set of 50 remastered Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts, 344 minutes, with bonus features, ending the series after low sales.
Looney Tunes: Back in Action
Looney Tunes: Back in Action is Joe Dante's 2003 Warner Bros. live-action/animated comedy, the anti-Space Jam: Daffy Duck and Brendan Fraser hunt the Blue Monkey Diamond. Flopped at the box office after a troubled production, later reappraised.
Loongson
Loongson (龙芯) is a Chinese fabless CPU manufacturer whose processors use its own LoongArch instruction set architecture, developed from the Godson project begun in 2001.
Loonie
The loonie is the Canadian one-dollar circulation coin, introduced in 1987 to replace the one-dollar bank note and named for the common loon on its reverse.
Loony Johnson
Loony Johnson, also known as Mocinho, is the stage name of António Miranda, a Cape Verdean singer, songwriter, and producer born in Lisbon in 1981.
Loop (statement)
A loop statement is a control-flow construct in programming languages that executes a statement or block repeatedly under the control of a condition, iterator, or counter.
Loop algebra
A loop algebra is an infinite-dimensional Lie algebra formed from a Lie algebra by extending its scalars to Laurent polynomials, and it underlies affine Kac-Moody algebras.
Loop antenna
A loop antenna, also called a loop or frame aerial, is a radio antenna made of one or more turns of conductor in a closed loop, used from AM radios to amateur HF transmitters.
Loop closure detection
Loop closure detection, also called place recognition, is the part of a SLAM system that recognizes when a robot revisits a mapped location, letting it correct accumulated odometry drift.
Loop current order
Loop current order is a proposed electronic state in underdoped cuprate superconductors, in which microscopic currents circulate within each unit cell and break time-reversal symmetry.
Loop diuretic
Loop diuretics (furosemide, bumetanide, torsemide, ethacrynic acid) inhibit the NKCC2 cotransporter in the thick ascending limb of the loop of Henle, producing powerful natriuresis for fluid overload in heart, kidney, and liver disease.
Loop electrosurgical excision procedure
The loop electrosurgical excision procedure (LEEP), also called LLETZ, is a gynecological operation using an electrified wire loop to remove abnormal cervical tissue, most often to treat high-grade cervical precancer.
Loop fission
Loop fission, also called loop distribution, is a compiler optimization that splits one loop into several loops over the same index range, reducing register pressure and enabling vectorization.
Loop fusion
Loop fusion, also called loop jamming, is a compiler optimization that merges two adjacent loops into one when semantics are preserved, reducing loop overhead and improving temporal data locality.
Loop heat pipe
A loop heat pipe (LHP) is a passive two-phase heat transport device driven by capillary forces, invented in the Soviet Union in the early 1980s and used for spacecraft thermal control.
Loop Industries
Loop Industries is a Canadian clean-technology company founded in 2014 in Terrebonne, Quebec, whose low-temperature methanolysis process breaks waste PET plastic back into monomers for new PET resin.
Loop of Henle
Loop of Henle (Henle's loop), the U-shaped nephron segment described by Jacob Henle in 1862; a countercurrent multiplier whose water-permeable descending limb and salt-transporting thick ascending limb build the renal medullary osmotic gradient for urine concentration.
Loop optimization
Loop optimization is a set of compiler transformations that restructure a program's loops to improve speed or resource use, chiefly by increasing parallelism, improving memory locality, and enabling vectorization.
Loop quantum cosmology
Loop quantum cosmology (LQC) applies loop quantum gravity to the early universe, replacing the big bang singularity with a quantum bounce; its predicted effects may leave imprints in the cosmic microwave background.
Loop quantum gravity
Loop quantum gravity (LQG) is a candidate theory of quantum gravity that quantizes general relativity without a background spacetime, describing space as discrete quanta of geometry.
Loop representation
The loop representation is a formulation of quantum general relativity in which quantum states are functionals of loops in space, introduced by Rovelli and Smolin in 1988.
Loop shaping
Loop shaping is a feedback control design method in which the designer specifies a target open-loop gain profile and synthesizes a controller to match it, balancing performance and robustness.