Figure 8 Explained
Figure 8, figure of 8, figure eight, or Figure of Eight may refer to:
- 8 (number), in Arabic numerals
Geography
Mathematics and sciences
Music
Albums and EPs
- Figure 8 (album), a 2000 album by Elliott Smith
- Figure Eight EP, a 2008 EP by This Et Al
Songs
Ropes
Sport and leisure
- Figure 8 racing, a category of auto racing related to the demolition derby
- Figure 8 roller coaster, a track design
- Figure 8, shape from which compulsory figures in ice skating are derived
- Figure 8, a riding figure used in the training of horses
- Figure-eight, type of noseband
- Figure eight turn, man overboard rescue turn in sailing
- Figure 8 (belay device), a piece of rock climbing equipment
- Figure of 8, figure in English country dance
- Figure eight (angling), a technique used by anglers to fish specifically for the muskellunge
Other uses
- Figure 8 or bi-directional, response pattern of some microphones
- Figure 8 Puffer (Tetraodon biocellatus), breed of pufferfish
- "Figure Eight", an episode and song from the children's educational series Schoolhouse Rock!
- Figure Eight (restaurant), a restaurant in New York City
- Figure Eight Inc., a crowdsourcing company related to machine learning
- Figure of Eight (novel), a 1936 novel by the British writer Compton Mackenzie
- IEC 60320 C7 power connector
See also
- 8 (disambiguation)
- Figure of eighty (Tethea ocularis), a moth of the family Drepanidae
- List of knots, the names of several of which contain "figure 8" or similar