multiloop

English

Alternative forms

• multi-loop

Etymology

From multi- +‎ loop.

Adjective

multiloop (not comparable)

1. Having or employing multiple loops.

Noun

multiloop (plural multiloops)

1. (genetics) A loop with three or more closing pairs.
   • 1989, Michael S. Waterman, Mathematical methods for DNA sequences:

     If multiloops are to be treated as interior loops, then the use of a linear rule as an approximation will penalize larger multiloops more than the logarithmically increasing interior loop energies would.

2. (physics) A disconnected Wilson loop.
   • 2021, Michio Kaku, The God Equation:

     Also, it is not clear if the scattering of multiloops in this formalism is truly finite.

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• multipool