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looping

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[loo-ping] / ˈlu pɪŋ /

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.

Etymology

Origin of looping

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

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