Usually means: Repeating sequence of instructions, actions.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. loop: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. loop, the loop: Merriam-Webster
  3. loop, the Loop: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. Loop, loop, loop: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. loop: Collins English Dictionary
  6. loop: Vocabulary.com
  7. Loop, loop: Wordnik
  8. loop: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Loop, loop, the Loop: Wiktionary
  10. loop: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. loop: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. loop: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Loop, loop, the loop: Dictionary.com
  14. loop: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. loop: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  17. Loop: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. loop: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. loop: Rhymezone
  20. loop, loop (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. loop: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. loop: FreeDictionary.org
  23. loop: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Loop: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Loop: Lexicon of Linguistics
  2. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. loop: Legal dictionary
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. loop: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. LOOP: CCI Computer
  3. loop: Computer Telephony & Electronics Dictionary and Glossary
  4. Webopedia (No longer online)
  5. Technopedia (No longer online)
  6. loop: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. loop: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. loop: Sound Alike Words
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. loop: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. LOOP: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. loop: Idioms
  4. United States Postal Service Official Abbreviations (No longer online)

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Loop: Easton Bible

Science (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. A Glossary of Mathematical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Loop: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  3. loop, loop, loop, loop: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  4. Loop: NRC Glossary of Nuclear Terms --
  5. loop: Graph Theory
  6. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. loop, loop, loop, loop: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The Loop: A Seattle Lexicon
  3. loop: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. Loop: Sports Definitions

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. loop: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Loop: Glossary of Insulator Terms
  4. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)
  5. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

(Note: See looped as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A length of thread, line or rope that is doubled over to make an opening.
noun:  The opening so formed.
noun:  A shape produced by a curve that bends around and crosses itself.
noun:  A ring road or beltway.
noun:  An endless strip of tape or film allowing continuous repetition.
noun:  A complete circuit for an electric current.
noun:  (programming) A programmed sequence of instructions that is repeated until or while a particular condition is satisfied.
noun:  (graph theory) An edge that begins and ends on the same vertex.
noun:  (topology) A path that starts and ends at the same point.
noun:  (transport) A bus or rail route, walking route, etc. that starts and ends at the same point.
noun:  (rail transport) 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.
noun:  (rail transport) A passing loop.
noun:  (algebra) A quasigroup with an identity element.
noun:  A loop-shaped intrauterine device.
noun:  An aerobatic maneuver in which an aircraft flies a circular path in a vertical plane.
noun:  A small, narrow opening; a loophole.
noun:  (biochemistry) A flexible region in a protein's secondary structure.
noun:  (Canada, US, dated, sports) A sports league
noun:  (cricket) The curved path of the ball bowled by a spin bowler.
verb:  (transitive) To form something into a loop.
verb:  (transitive) To fasten or encircle something with a loop.
verb:  (transitive) To fly an aircraft in a loop.
verb:  (transitive) To move something in a loop.
verb:  (transitive) To join electrical components to complete a circuit.
verb:  (transitive) To duplicate the route of a pipeline.
verb:  (transitive) To create an error in a computer program so that it runs in an endless loop and the computer freezes up.
verb:  (intransitive) To form a loop.
verb:  (intransitive) To move in a loop.
verb:  To place in a loop.
verb:  (education, ambitransitive) To have the teacher progress through multiple school years with the same students.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  (Melbourne, informal, in the singular) The City Loop.
noun:  Alternative form of loup (“mass of iron”) [A mass of iron in a pasty condition gathered into a ball for the tilt hammer or rolls.]
noun:  Acronym of loss of offsite power.

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