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n. - (computer science) executing the same set of instructions a given number of times or until a specified result is obtained.

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Usage examples (38)
  • The letter was signed, in looping cursive, simply, “Hillary.”
  • Most of the hair is pinned up in looping curls with a few curls hanging down.
  • As the sea-gulls swirled around our ship to-day in looping flight, I heard a little girl say they were really angels.
  • In what's called looping, teachers stay with a classroom for more than one year.
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