looping

[ loo-ping ]

noun

, Movies.

1. the process of fitting speech to film already shot, especially by making a closed loop of the film for one scene and projecting it repeatedly until a good synchronization of film and recorded speech is achieved.

Word History and Origins

Origin of looping¹

1475–85 for an earlier sense; loop ¹ + -ing ¹

Example Sentences

A rocket is used to blast the payload, be it a nuclear weapon or a passenger spaceship, on a big looping trajectory into space before re-entering the atmosphere on the other side of the planet.

From Singularity Hub 

Gravitons react to themselves, generating looping, Escher-like equations.

From Quanta Magazine

These include a tower made of intricately looping tentacles, shown at Gallery B in February, and “David’s Hand,” in which similarly curving strands cohere into fingers and a thumb.

From Washington Post

In his first matchup with Soto on Wednesday, Wainwright pounded him inside — throwing two cutters and a change-up — before evening the count to 2-2 with a looping curve.

From Washington Post

As you move to hypergraphs with more and more vertices, the ways of arranging their looping edges multiply as well.

From Quanta Magazine

They were looping back around and coming down Tiebout Avenue when they spotted two figures.

From The Daily Beast

And usually when you're looping a movie, if it takes two days, that's a lot.

From The Daily Beast

The little, looping movie shows five young women cycling through a park in Berlin, and filming each other as they do so.

From The Daily Beast

So here I sit, an old Beach Boys song looping through my head.

From The Daily Beast

But when we reach the mountain, we see only a denuded plateau of looping ring roads and gray rubble.

From The Daily Beast

Thereupon Mr. Selden recalled that meeting, and others, and his voice trailed like a snake in the dust, looping cryptic patterns.

From Project Gutenberg

Next they go to another department where, with the aid of a special looping machine, the heels and toes are stitched together.

From Project Gutenberg

Her hair, too, was simpler than usual, almost carrying out the childish idea with its soft looping away from the face.

From Project Gutenberg

The Lakeville captain seemed to catch the ball exactly in position for looping it toward the basket.

From Project Gutenberg

She bent her head and commenced her work again, looping up the worsted with desperate haste.

From Project Gutenberg

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