endless loop

collocation in English

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endless
adjective
uk
/ˈend.ləs/us
/ˈend.ləs/
never finishing, or seeming never ...
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loop
noun[C]
uk
/luːp/us
/luːp/
the curved shape made when something long and thin, such as a piece of string, bends until one part of it nearly touches or crosses another part ...
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(Definition ofendlessandloopfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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There may be a temptation to find it amusing that we may have put the boundary commission into anendlessloop.
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All attempts to dodge a solution of this central problem by restrictive measures or deregulation strategies will only prolong theendlessloopof the world shipbuilding negotiations yet again.
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This is a reference to the keys in which each side of the record begins and to theendlessloopat the end.
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Since 600 means branch to mailbox address 00 the program, instead of halting, would get stuck in anendlessloop.
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It is not anendlessloop, as the game is completed after the player successfully finishes the 125th stage, or, the 4th loop.
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A website was also set up, streaming the song on anendlessloop.
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Another feature of it was anendlesslooppattern chain, which, with its peculiar apparatus, operated the warp.
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Later, the cassette was used in telephone answering machines, including a special form of cassette where the tape was wound on anendlessloop.
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Played in anendlessloop, the song and the speakers reiterate that distance of the artist and viewer.
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Characteristically, linear induction motors have a finite length primary or secondary, which generates end-effects, whereas a conventional induction motor is arranged in anendlessloop.
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It consists of anendlessloopof kites.
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The three items, of course, are trapped in anendlessloopof changing-hands.
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It includes black cumin and a middle-eastern spice known as mahleb, and it comes in the form of a braidedendlessloop.
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Desperately lonely with all his knowledge that he can not share, he searches for others caught in the sameendlessloopof lifetimes.
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The recovered solvent is compressed back to a liquid, cooled and re-circulated to the extractor vessel in anendlessloop.
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Tape echo units use anendlessloopof magnetic tape, which is drawn across a series of recording and playback heads.
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In this case, one or more sheets are fed halfway through the sender's fax machine and taped end to end, forming anendlessloopthat cycles through the machine.
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A belt conveyor system consists of two or more pulleys (sometimes referred to as drums), with anendlessloopof carrying medium - the conveyor belt - that rotates about them.
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Theendlesslooptape concept continues to be used in modern movie projectors, although in that application the spool is actively rotated and not drawn by tension on the film.
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