loop

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Meaning

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 quasigroup with an identity element.
13. A loop-shaped intrauterine device.
14. An aerobatic maneuver in which an aircraft flies a circular path in a vertical plane.
15. A small, narrow opening; a loophole.
16. Alternative form of loup (“mass of iron”)
17. A flexible region in a protein's secondary structure.
18. A sports league

slip-knot

contraceptive device

convulate

loop topology

plain stitch

ring network

endless track

loop around

birle

inside loop

knit stitch

knitting stitch

single stitch

loop bar

recirculating loop

return circuit

coil antenna

return passage

electric coil

return wire

mesh circuit

mesh opening

Schort

loop wire

looped bar

radio loop

hoop antenna

coil curl

abdomen

closed path

parallel circle

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/luːp/

From Middle English loupe (“noose, loop”), earlier lowp-knot (“loop-knot”), of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse hlaup (“a run”), used in the sense of a "running knot", from hlaupa (“to leap”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *hlaupaną (“to leap, run”). Compare Swedish löp-knut (“loop-knot”), Danish løb-knude (“a running knot”), Danish løb (“a course”). More at leap. The verb is derived from the noun.

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