Droop

To droop means to hang down, to sag, particularly if limp. Droop may refer to:

Technical usage

 * Droop nose (aeronautics), an adjustable nose found on some supersonic aircraft
 * Droop quota, a type of quota for counting and transferring votes in an election
 * Droop speed control, a speed control mode of a prime mover driving a synchronous generator connected to an electrical grid.
 * Leading-edge droop flap, a type of high-lift device found on the wings of some aircraft
 * Leading-edge droop, a feature of some aircraft wings
 * LED droop, the lowering of efficiency of light-emitting diodes at higher electrical currents
 * The steady-state error of a proportional controller
 * Voltage droop, the intentional loss in output voltage of a power supply as it drives a load

People

 * Marie Luise Droop (1890-1959), a German writer and producer
 * Henry Richmond Droop (1831–1884), an English mathematician
 * John Percival Droop (1882–1963), a British classical archaeologist
 * Droop-E, American rapper

Fictional characters

 * Droopy, cartoon character
 * Drooper, a character from the television show The Banana Splits
 * Droop, a muppet character from the television series The Muppet Show
 * Droop-a-Long, a cartoon character from the segment Ricochet Rabbit & Droop-a-Long in The Magilla Gorilla Show

Places

 * Droop, West Virginia
 * Droop Hill, a mountain landform in the Kincardine and Mearns region of Aberdeenshire, Scotland
 * Droop Mountain, a small mountain in the Allegheny Mountains in West Virginia, United States

Other uses

 * Ptosis (disambiguation), drooping of body parts
 * Droop cup, a type of bowl from Ancient Greece / Laconia, named after John Percival Droop
 * "Droop" (RuPaul's Drag Race), an episode of the American television series RuPaul's Drag Race