Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In metallurgy, the running together or fusing of ore when heated for calcination.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (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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loop . - (Zoöl.) any species of land snail of the genus Truncatella; -- so called because it creeps like the measuring worms.
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- verb Present participle of
loop .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (computer science) executing the same set of instructions a given number of times or until a specified result is obtained
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Examples
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Most of the hair is pinned up in looping curls with a few curls hanging down.
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Of course, then, the templating language needs to trade flexibility for simplicity – as soon as you start putting in looping and conditionals you have a whole new programming language.
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The letter was signed, in looping cursive, simply, “Hillary.”
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The letter was signed, in looping cursive, simply, “Hillary.”
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The letter was signed, in looping cursive, simply, “Hillary.”
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As the sea-gulls swirled around our ship to-day in looping flight, I heard a little girl say they were really angels.
Janey Canuck in the West Emily Ferguson 1910
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[I] f the Red Army attacked Japan’s Manchurian colony within three months of the Nazis’ final defeat, the USSR would get permanent occupation of Sakhalin Island, a big long streak of icy forest north of Hokkaido, and the Kuril Islands, a string of fog-bound rocks looping from the North end of Hokkaido to the Southern tip of the Kamchatka Peninsula.
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I recall a looping gate in some tune, and a story that never resolves, where something is rising or settling into the embers of a fire that has always burned in Human imagination.
The WELL: Estimated Prophet John Barlow 2006
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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 Modesitt, L. E. 1992
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Dennis Daugaard lauded a segment of the corps' plan calling for better communications with bi-monthly conference calls looping in federal, state, county and local officials.
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