Meaning of overloop | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A loop that occurs above something.
2. An outer loop; A loop that contains an inner loop.

Examples

“In extremity, we carry our ordnance better than we were wont, because our nether overloops ( u ) , are raised commonly from the water, between the lower part of the port, and the sea .”

“After the accident with the Mary Rose, occasioned by the lowness of her ports, and by the fact of the guns being unbreeched, as was the custom, they raised both the gun-decks, or overloops, as Sir W. Raleigh calls them, and fitted breechings to the guns.”

“I almost signed, and then luckily I noticed that my boss Abelardo's tall and horizontally compressed conquistador signature, with lots of overloops and proud flourishes, was located one petal over on the very same flower I had chosen.”

“It was not until November 1978 that Levine seriously began pursuing the utilitarian application of his sculptures, when a friend, G. Duff Bailey, a bicycle buff and author of numerous articles about urban cycling, was at Levine's home and informed him that the sculptures would make excellent bicycle racks, permitting bicycles to be parked under the overloops as well as on top of the underloops.”

“Well , they certainly didn't know about loops yet, much less closed loops and overloops.”

“In contrast to the loop-based construction, the overloop-based algorithm (Algo.2) suppresses this problem completely.”

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