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Figure 8, figure of 8, figure eight, or Figure of Eight may refer to:

• 8 (number), in Arabic numerals

Geography

• Figure Eight Island, North Carolina, United States
• Figure Eight Lake, Alberta, Canada
• Figure-Eight Loops, feature of the Historic Columbia River Highway in Guy W. Talbot State Park
• Figure of Eight Island, New Zealand, an island in the Auckland Islands group

Mathematics and sciences

• ∞, symbol meaning infinity
• Figure 8, a two-lobed Lissajous curve
• Figure 8, in topology, the rose with two petals
• Figure 8, shape described by an analemma, a curve in astronomy
• Figure-eight knot (mathematics), in knot theory
• Lemniscate, various types of mathematical curve that resembles a figure 8

Music

Albums and EPs

• Figure 8 (album), a 2000 album by Elliott Smith
• Figure Eight EP, a 2008 EP by This Et Al

Songs

• "Figure 8" (song), a 2012 song by Ellie Goulding from Halcyon
• "Figure 8", a song by FKA Twigs from the EP M3LL155X
• "Figure 8", a song by Paramore from the album This Is Why
• "Figure Eight", a song and episode name from the children's educational series Schoolhouse Rock!
• "Figure of Eight" (song), a 1989 song by Paul McCartney
• "Figure of Eight", song by Status Quo from In Search of the Fourth Chord

Ropes

• Figure eight bend or Flemish bend, a knot
• Figure-eight knot, typically used as a stopper knot
• Figure-eight loop, figure of eight knot tied "on the bight"

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

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