1syllable
loops
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Definitions ofloops
1noun
- 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.
Example: "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.
- A programmed sequence of instructions that is repeated until or while a particular condition is satisfied.
- An edge that begins and ends on the same vertex.
- A path that starts and ends at the same point.
- A bus or rail route, walking route, etc. that starts and ends at the same point.
- 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.
- 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.
- A flexible region in a protein's secondary structure.
1verb
- To form something into a loop.
- To fasten or encircle something with a loop.
- To fly an aircraft in a loop.
- To move something in a loop.
- To join electrical components to complete a circuit.
- To duplicate the route of a pipeline.
- To create an error in a computer program so that it runs in an endless loop and the computer freezes up.
- To form a loop.
- To move in a loop.
Example: "The program loops until the user presses a key."
1noun
- A mass of iron in a pasty condition gathered into a ball for the tilt hammer or rolls.
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