English Dictionary

loop

/luːp/

noun

A length of thread, line or rope that is doubled over to make an opening. / The opening so formed. / A shape produced by a curve that bends around and crosses itself. / A ring road or beltway.

I need to thread the loop through the needle.

意味（1）

A length of thread, line or rope that is doubled over to make an opening.

意味（2）

The opening so formed.

意味（3）

A shape produced by a curve that bends around and crosses itself.

Arches, loops, and whorls are patterns found in fingerprints.

意味（4）

A ring road or beltway.

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An endless strip of tape or film allowing continuous repetition.

意味（6）

A complete circuit for an electric current.

意味（7）

(programming) A programmed sequence of instructions that is repeated until or while a particular condition is satisfied.

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(graph theory) An edge that begins and ends on the same vertex.

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(topology) A path that starts and ends at the same point.

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(transport) A bus or rail route, walking route, etc. that starts and ends at the same point.

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(rail transport) 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.

In 1908 the line was extended to a station called Wood Lane, which was built on a terminal track loop so that trains could turn round and go back the other way, …

意味（12）

(algebra) A quasigroup with an identity element.

意味（13）

A loop-shaped intrauterine device.

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An aerobatic maneuver in which an aircraft flies a circular path in a vertical plane.

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A small, narrow opening; a loophole.

And stop all sight-holes, every loop from whence / The eye of Reason may pry in upon us.

意味（16）

Alternative form of loup (mass of iron).

意味（17）

(biochemistry) A flexible region in a protein's secondary structure.