Usually means: System where output influences input.
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  1. closed loop: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. closed loop: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. closed loop: Vocabulary.com
  4. Closed-loop, closed-loop: Wordnik
  5. closed loop: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. closed-loop, closed loop: Dictionary.com
  7. Closed loop: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. closed loop: Rhymezone
  9. closed loop: Free Dictionary
  10. closed loop: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. closed loop: Dictionary/thesaurus
  12. closed loop: Wiktionary

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  1. closed loop: Legal dictionary

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  1. Closed- loop, Closed-loop, closed loop: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. closed loop: Medical dictionary

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  3. Glossary of Energy Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (closed loop)

noun:  (topology) A path whose initial point is equal to its terminal point.
noun:  A feedback loop, especially when found in:
noun:  (cybernetics) A closed-loop transfer function.
noun:  (systems theory) An electronic feedback loop.
noun:  (systems theory) A PID controller.
noun:  (ecology) A closed ecological system.
noun:  (communication) Closed-loop communication.
noun:  The process of pulling water from one area of a reef aquarium and pumping it immediately elsewhere in the tank to create higher flow and minimize dead spots.
noun:  (economics) An economy in which materials are consistently reused rather than discharged as waste.
noun:  (mathematics) Alternative form of closed curve [(topology) A map from the circle, S¹, to a topological space.^((McLarty, p. 4))]
noun:  (time travel) Clipping of closed time loop. [(science fiction) A chain of events in which someone or something time travels to the past as a means to fulfill their role in the history exactly as it already happened, thus implying impossibility to change the past.]
noun:  Alternative form of knot loop

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