loop
see also: Loop, LOOP
Etymology
Loop
Proper noun
LOOP
Noun
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see also: Loop, LOOP
Etymology
From Middle English loupe, earlier lowp-knot, of gmq origin, from Old Norse hlaup, used in the sense of a "running knot", from hlaupa ("to leap"), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *hlaupaną.
Pronunciation- IPA: /luːp/
loop (plural loops)
- A length of thread, line or rope that is doubled over to make an opening.
- The opening so formed.
- A shape produced by a curve that bends around and crosses itself.
- Arches, loops, and whorls are patterns found in fingerprints.
- A ring road or beltway.
- An endless strip of tape or film allowing continuous repetition.
- A complete circuit for an electric current.
- (programming) A programmed sequence of instructions that is repeated until or while a particular condition is satisfied.
- (graph theory) An edge that begins and ends on the same vertex.
- (topology) A path that starts and ends at the same point.
- (transportation) A bus or rail route, walking route, etc. that starts and ends at the same point.
- (rail) A place at a terminus where trains or trams can turn round and go back the other way without having to reverse; a balloon loop, turning loop, or reversing loop.
- (algebra) A quasigroup with an identity element.
- A loop-shaped intrauterine device.
- An aerobatic maneuver in which an aircraft flies a circular path in a vertical plane.
- A small, narrow opening; a loophole.
- c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act IV, scene i]:
- And stop all sight-holes, every loop from whence / The eye of Reason may pry in upon us.
- Alternative form of loup
- (biochemistry) A flexible region in a protein's secondary structure.
- (North America, dated, sports) A sports league
- 1963 September 27, “Italias Vie In Bayonne On Sunday ↗”, in The Jersey Journal, page 17:
- Arellano formerly cavorted for the Galicias in the fast-paced National-American Soccer loop.
- French: boucle
- German: Schlaufe
- Portuguese: laço
- Russian: пе́тля́
- Spanish: lazo, lazada, gaza (nautical), recodo
- French: boucle
- German: Schlaufe, Schleife
- Italian: passante
- Portuguese: laço
- Russian: пе́тля́
- Spanish: lazo, recodo, vuelta, círculo, bucle
- German: Endlosschleife
- Italian: riccio
- Portuguese: fita
- Russian: пе́тля́
- Spanish: rizo, círculo, bucle infinito, cinta infinita
- French: circuit fermé
- German: Stromkreis, geschlossener Stromkreis
- Italian: anello
- Portuguese: circuito
- Russian: цепь
- Spanish: circuito cerrado
- French: boucle
- German: Schleife
- Italian: blocco iterativo, iterazione , ciclo
- Portuguese: ciclo, laço, loop
- Russian: цикл
- Spanish: ciclo, bucle
- Spanish: lazo
- French: boucle
- German: Rundweg, Ring, Ringstraße, Gürtel
- Spanish: vuelta, anillo vial, anillo, ronda, ronda, circunvalación
- French: boucle
- German: Looping
- Italian: cerchio della morte, giro della morte
- Portuguese: looping, loop
- Russian: мёртвая пе́тля́
- Spanish: looping, rizo
loop (loops, present participle looping; simple past and past participle looped)
- (transitive) To form something into a loop.
- (transitive) To fasten or encircle something with a loop.
- (transitive) To fly an aircraft in a loop.
- (transitive) To move something in a loop.
- (transitive) To join electrical components to complete a circuit.
- (transitive) To duplicate the route of a pipeline.
- (transitive) To create an error in a computer program so that it runs in an endless loop and the computer freezes up.
- (intransitive) To form a loop.
- (intransitive) To move in a loop.
- The program loops until the user presses a key.
- To place in a loop.
- (education, ambitransitive) To have the teacher progress through multiple school years with the same students.
Loop
Proper noun
- Surname.
- (Melbourne, informal, in the singular) The City Loop.
- Does this train go through the Loop?
LOOP
Noun
loop
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