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UK
/lˈuːpɪŋ/
]
[ US /ˈɫupɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈɫupɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
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(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
How To Use looping In A Sentence
- The bed stood in one corner, a rough wooden frame hooked to the wall and ropes looping back and forth to support a mattress. SOMEDAY MY PRINCE
- For days before, public drapers were to be seen clinging cross-legged to obelisk and peristyle; moving in spread-eagle fashion, hung in a jacket of sail-cloth attached to cables, across the fronts of buildings, looping garlands, besticking banners and spreading tapestries. The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt
- To reduce the height of a fast growing rambling rose on an upright trellis, try looping and tying the flowering canes as shown.
- The sea cows went on schlooping and grazing, and chumping in the weed and Kotick asked them questions in every language that he had picked up in his travels; and the Sea People talk nearly as many languages as human beings. The Jungle Book.
- With the looping left-right into the semicircular end-turn coming up fast, go hard on the brakes, and turn in firmly before pushing up the power again to aim for the exit.
- Then I recalled the looping fields around the tile and picked up a fist-sized rock and tried to slide undertime and replicate the fields. Timegod's World
- The squeegee method creates looping swags of paint which resemble fabric folds, or even, at times, X-ray images of rib cages.
- Even dialogue can be recorded later in post-production and matched up to the actors' lips in a process called Looping.
- A wide variety of structured activities are supported, including sequential and parallel processing and condition looping.
- On Dig Your Own Hole, Beth Orton's looping lament to wasted comedown mornings gradually elided into one of that record's most assertive beats.