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loop
noun
1 a rounded or oval-shaped single coil in a piece of thread, string, rope, chain, etc, formed as it crosses over itself.
2 any similar oval-shaped or U-shaped bend, eg in a river, the path of a planet, etc.
3 a manoeuvre in which an aircraft describes a complete vertical circle in the sky.
4 a strip of magnetic tape or motion-picture film whose ends have been spliced together to form a loop so that the sound or images on it can be continually repeated.
5 electronics a closed circuit which a signal can pass round, as, for example, in a feedback (sense 3) control system.
6 comput a series of instructions in a program that is repeated until a certain condition is met.
7 a branch of a railway, telegraph line, etc that leaves the main line and then rejoins it.
8 an intrauterine contraceptive coil.
9 in knitting and crochet: a stitch.
10 one of four possible categories of fingerprint.
11 skating a curved figure that is traced by the skater.
verb (looped , looping )
1 to fasten with or enclose in a loop.
2 to form into a loop or loops.
3 intr to move so as to perform a loop.
[15c in the form loupe : the verb is not attested until 19c]
in (or out of) the loop included in (or excluded from) the group of people who are fully informed about something.
loop the loop said of an aircraft, etc: to make a loop in the sky.
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