Looping

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Looping \Loop"ing\, p. pr. & vb. n.
     of {Loop}.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     {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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  looping
       n : (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}]