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Entry 2 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Looping

· Loop·ing · IPA /lˈuːpɪŋ/
01 n. The running together of the matter of an ore into a mass, when the ore is only heated for calcination.
  1. 1.
    The running together of the matter of an ore into a mass, when the ore is only heated for calcination.(Metal.)
02 p. pr. & vb. n. of Loop.
  1. 1.
    of Loop. See: Loop
Phrases & compounds
Looping snail — any species of land snail of the genus Truncatella; -- so called because it creeps like the measuring worms.