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[syn: iteration, looping]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Looping \Loop"ing\, n. [Cf. D. loopen to run. Cf. Loop a mass
of iron, Leap.] (Metal.)
The running together of the matter of an ore into a mass,
when the ore is only heated for calcination.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Loop \Loop\ (l[=oo]p), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Looped (l[=oo]pt);
p. pr. & vb. n. Looping.]
To make a loop of or in; to fasten with a loop or loops; --
often with up; as, to loop a string; to loop up a curtain.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Looping \Loop"ing\, p. pr. & vb. n.
of Loop.
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Looping snail (Zool.), any species of land snail of the
genus Truncatella; -- so called because it creeps like
the measuring worms.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
looping
n 1: (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" [syn:
iteration, looping]