loop

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

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环

The opening so formed.

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

循环

环

A process that returns to its beginning and then repeats itself in the same sequence.

A ring road or beltway.

An endless strip of tape or film allowing continuous repetition.

A complete circuit for an electric current.

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

An edge that begins and ends on the same vertex.

A path that starts and ends at the same point.

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

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.

A passing loop.

A quasigroup with an identity element.

A sports league

A loop-shaped intrauterine device.

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

A small, narrow opening; a loophole.

Alternative form of loup (“mass of iron”).

A flexible region in a protein's secondary structure.

The curved path of the ball bowled by a spin bowler.

To duplicate the route of a pipeline.

To form something into a loop.

To fasten or encircle something with a loop.

To fly an aircraft in a loop.

To move something in a loop.

To play something (such as a song or video) in a loop.

To join electrical components to complete a circuit.

To create an error in a computer program so that it runs in an endless loop and the computer freezes up.

To form a loop.

To move in a loop.

To place in a loop.

To have the teacher progress through multiple school years with the same students.