title: Droop
text: # 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
  