Looping - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: loopingLooped
Bent folded or tied so as to make a loop as a looped wire or string...
infinite loop
a series of instructions in a computer program which when executed cause a cyclic repetition of the same instructions with no other action by the program for as long as the program continues to be executed or the loop is interrupted by some external action...
mousetrap
Any device that catches and usually kills mice They are of various designs the most common being a stiff loop of wire mounted on a small wooden platform base and attached to a strong spring which holds the loop firmly against the base To activate the trap the loop is pulled through a 180deg arc against the tension of the spring and held against the base by a delicate metal catch which can keep the loop from moving though in a state of high tension The metal catch is moved when a mouse tries to take a piece of bait attached to it releasing the loop which forcefully moves though an arc usually killing the mouse A larger version of the same device is used as a rat trap...
Looping
The running together of the matter of an ore into a mass when the ore is only heated for calcination...
Fabric
Fabric, The 'Mercury' Dictionary of Textile Terms defines 'fabric' as a term which covers all textiles no matter how constructed, how manufactured, or the nature of the material from which made, and the expression 'textile' is described as any product manufactured from fibres through twisting, interlacing, bonding, looping, or any other means, in such a manner that the flexibility, strength, and other characteristic properties of the individual fibres are not suppressed. The Man-Made Textile Encyclopaedia (1959) defines fabric as a collective term applied to cloth no matter how constructed or manufactured and regardless of the kind of fibre from which made. In structure it is planar produced by interlacing yarns, fibres or filaments. Textile fabrics include the following varieties, bonded, felted, knitted, braided and woven. The Fairchild's Dictionary of Textiles (1959) says that fabric is a cloth that is woven or knit, braided, petted, with any textile fibre ... and 'textile' is said ...
Parbuckle
A kind of purchase for hoisting or lowering a cylindrical burden as a cask The middle of a long rope is made fast aloft and both parts are looped around the object which rests in the loops and rolls in them as the ends are hauled up or payed out...
Looper
An instrument as a bodkin for forming a loop in yarn a cord etc...
Inchworm
The larva of any geometrid moth It progresses forward by first bringing the rear end of the body forward forming a loop then moving the front part of the body called also measuring worm measuringworm spanner and looper See Geometrid...
knitwork
A network of yarn created by interlacing threads of yarn in a series of connected loops using straight eyeless needles or by machine knitting...
knock off
a device in a knitting machine to remove loops from the needles...
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