loop
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4.9
- noun
- /luːp/
- Specialized
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bucle
- It's an entirely closed loop system.
- feedback loop
- a closed loop
- negative feedback loop
This gives us nice clean water for the inside loop and well water.
- This gives us nice clean water for the inside loop and well water.
- And then that feedback loop of how that's makes us feel.
- And that's a really dangerous loop to be stuck in.
- Today we are all surrounded by a continuous loop of negative information.
- There's a greater feedback, there's a greater communication loop that's being generated here.
- And so in order to prevent that impact, that loop, we have to disrupt that loop.
Examples
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Such a positive feedback loop links confidence to success and vice versa.
Academic text (2015) -
You will hear the sound of a phase locked loop losing track.
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There are many dead ends, but no paths that loop back on themselves.
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Sustainable solutions to such future challenges exist and involve closing the loop on the human phosphorus cycle.
Academic text (2011) -
What are the negative feedback loops that are keeping this system in homeostasis?
Academic text (1994) -
The engineer designed a system that created a closed loop for efficient water circulation.
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In this experiment, we will study how signals travel through a loop in the circuit.
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The computer program runs a loop to repeat the instructions until the task is completed.
Synonyms
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3.3
A closed path of wires and parts that lets power flow
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4.3
A complete path that lets electricity or signals flow
A network where computers connect in a closed ring
Antonyms
Idioms
Compounds
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4.2
A system where part of what it makes is sent back to change how it works
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5.1
A system that uses feedback to keep things like temperature at the right level
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9.1
How much output an amplifier sends back to its input, affecting how steady it is
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A control system that uses information from sensors to adjust itself automatically
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A system that recovers, cleans, and reuses materials to avoid waste
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A plane flight that climbs, flies upside down, then dives in a vertical circle with the pilot on the inside
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A plane move where it dives, flies upside down, and then climbs back to level flight
Surface Forms
Etymology
Loop for a circuit uses the idea of a closed ring, so an electrical or signal loop is a path that goes round and allows current or information to circulate.