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loop

The English word “loop” has 31 meanings listed here.

  1. A length of thread, line or rope that is doubled over to make an opening.
  2. The opening so formed.
  3. A shape produced by a curve that bends around and crosses itself.
  4. A ring road or beltway.
  5. An endless strip of tape or film allowing continuous repetition.
  6. A complete circuit for an electric current.
  7. A programmed sequence of instructions that is repeated until or while a particular condition is satisfied.
  8. An edge that begins and ends on the same vertex.
  9. A path that starts and ends at the same point.
  10. A bus or rail route, walking route, etc. that starts and ends at the same point.
  11. 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.
  12. A passing loop.
  13. A quasigroup with an identity element.
  14. A loop-shaped intrauterine device.
  15. An aerobatic maneuver in which an aircraft flies a circular path in a vertical plane.
  16. A small, narrow opening; a loophole.
  17. A flexible region in a protein's secondary structure.
  18. A sports league
  19. The curved path of the ball bowled by a spin bowler.
  20. To form something into a loop.
  21. To fasten or encircle something with a loop.
  22. To fly an aircraft in a loop.
  23. To move something in a loop.
  24. To play something (such as a song or video) in a loop.
  25. To join electrical components to complete a circuit.
  26. To duplicate the route of a pipeline.
  27. To create an error in a computer program so that it runs in an endless loop and the computer freezes up.
  28. To form a loop.
  29. To move in a loop.
  30. To place in a loop.
  31. To have the teacher progress through multiple school years with the same students.
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