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Loop

Meaning in software engineering, with examples

/luːp/nounCore term

In software engineering, loop means: A piece of code that repeats the same steps several times, for example once for every item in a list or until a condition becomes false.

In Turkish: döngü

How it is used

Developers write for loops and while loops, loop over or loop through a list, and break out of a loop. An 'infinite loop' never ends and is a classic bug.

Example sentences

  1. We loop through all the orders and send one email per customer.

  2. The server froze because of an infinite loop in the retry logic.

Common collocations

  • for loop
  • while loop
  • infinite loop
  • loop through
  • break out of a loop
  • iterateTo go through the items of a collection one by one, or more generally to repeat a process and improve the result each time.
  • arrayAn ordered collection of items stored one after another, where each item can be reached by its position number, called an index.
  • recursionA technique where a function solves a problem by calling itself on a smaller part of the same problem until it reaches a simple case.
  • functionA named block of code that does one job. It can take input values, and it often returns a result to the code that called it.

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