Meaning

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

• The opening so formed.

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

  "Arches, loops, and whorls are patterns found in fingerprints."

• 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 quasigroup with an identity element.

• 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.

• A flexible region in a protein's secondary structure.

Meaning

• A mass of iron in a pasty condition gathered into a ball for the tilt hammer or rolls.