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Looping   /lˈupɪŋ/   Listen
Looping

noun
1.
(computer science) executing the same set of instructions a given number of times or until a specified result is obtained.  Synonym: iteration.


Loop

verb
(past & past part. looped; pres. part. looping)
1.
Move in loops.
2.
Make a loop in.  Synonym: intertwine.
3.
Fly loops, perform a loop.
4.
Wind around something in coils or loops.  Synonyms: coil, curl.  Antonym: uncoil.
5.
Fasten or join with a loop.



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"Looping" Quotes from Famous Books



... I'd have let the little shrew go, by thunder!" said the affectionate relative. "But my good heart stopped me. The country wasn't safe for a couple of women to go looping about," he added. "And one of them with two hundred pounds in Bank of England notes stitched into the front ...
— The Dop Doctor • Clotilde Inez Mary Graves
... of them had blithely announced that these mighty invincible Prussians "couldn't even trail a mud turtle." She wondered what they meant by "looping our trail." ...
— Tom Slade with the Boys Over There • Percy K. Fitzhugh
... knitting imaginable. After the builder has fastened many lines to opposite twigs, their ends hanging free, she proceeds to span the little gulf by weaving them together. She stands with her claws clasped one to each side, and uses her beak industriously, looping up and fastening the loose ends. I have stood in the road under the nest looking straight up till my head swam, trying to make out just how she did it, but all I could see was the bird standing astride the chasm she ...
— Under the Maples • John Burroughs
... the map and thrust it into the bosom of her mud-splashed habit; then, looping up the skirt of her kirtle, she dismounted, leading her horse straight into the oak scrub and on through a dim mile of woodland, always descending, until the clear rushing music of a stream warned her, and she ...
— Special Messenger • Robert W. Chambers
... dwarfing the lower; dark red, horizon-long, magnificent in frowning boldness, and because of its limitless deceiving surfaces incomprehensible to the gaze of man. Away to the eastward began a winding ragged blue line, looping back upon itself, and then winding away again, growing wider and bluer. This line was San Juan Canyon. I followed that blue line all its length, a hundred miles, down toward the west where it joined a dark purple shadowy cleft. And this was the Grand Canyon of the Colorado. ...
— Tales of lonely trails • Zane Grey


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