Looping

Loop (l

The central business district of Chicago, Illinois. The Loop was originally named for a loop in the elevated railroad tracks.

loop¹ (l

a. A length of line, thread, ribbon, or other thin material that is curved or doubled over making an opening.

b. The opening formed by such a doubled line.

2. Something having a shape, order, or path of motion that is circular or curved over on itself.

3. Electricity A closed circuit.

4. Computer Science A sequence of instructions that repeats either a specified number of times or until a particular condition is met.

5. A type of loop-shaped intrauterine device.

6. A flight maneuver in which an aircraft flies a circular path in a vertical plane with the lateral axis of the aircraft remaining horizontal.

7. A segment of film or magnetic tape whose ends are joined, making a strip that can be continuously replayed.

8. Sports See league¹.

v. looped, loop·ing, loops

v.tr.

1. To form into a loop.

2. To fasten, join, or encircle with loops or a loop.

3. To fly (an aircraft) in a loop.

4. To move in a loop or an arc.

5. Electricity To join (conductors) so as to complete a circuit.

6. To add or substitute (words) in a film by altering the sound track.

v.intr.

1. To form a loop.

2. To move in a loop: "The couple looped constantly around the international social circuit" (Walter Isaacson).

3. To make a loop in an aircraft.

Idioms:

in the loop

Part of a group that is kept up-to-date with information about something: knew about the merger because she's in the loop.

knock/throw for a loop

Slang To surprise tremendously; astonish.

out of the loop

Not part of a group that is kept up-to-date with information about something.

[Middle English loupe, probably from Middle Irish lúb (perhaps influenced by Middle English lep, basket).]

loop² (l

n. Archaic

A loophole through which small arms may be fired.

[Middle English loupe; akin to Middle Dutch lpen, to lie in wait, peer.]

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Noun

looping - (computer science) executing the same set of instructions a given number of times or until a specified result is obtained; "the solution is obtained by iteration"

iteration

physical process, process - a sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states; "events now in process"; "the process of calcification begins later for boys than for girls"

computer science, computing - the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures

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airplane maneuver
bowknot
bowline
bowline knot
cartridge belt
chain stitch
closed loop
closed-loop system
coil
control system
crochet stitch
drip loop
feedback loop
flight maneuver
French knot
Henle's loop
induction loop system
inside loop
knitwork

Its waters, in creeping down these miles of meadowland, frequently divided, serpentining in purposeless curves, looping themselves around little islands that had no name, returning and re-embodying themselves as a broad main stream further on.

Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman by Hardy, Thomas View in context

Clacton to enchanted people in a bewitched tower, with the spiders' webs looping across the corners of the room, and all the tools of the necromancer's craft at hand; for so aloof and unreal and apart from the normal world did they seem to her, in the house of innumerable typewriters, murmuring their incantations and concocting their drugs, and flinging their frail spiders' webs over the torrent of life which rushed down the streets outside.

Night and Day by Woolf, Virginia View in context

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