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Answer for the clue "Looping, e.g ", 9 letters:
iteration

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Iteration is the act of repeating a process, either to generate an unbounded sequence of outcomes, or with the aim of approaching a desired goal, target or result. Each repetition of the process is also called an "iteration", and the results of one iteration ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 15c., from Latin iterationem (nominative iteratio ) "repetition," noun of action from past participle stem of iterare "do again, repeat," from iterum "again," from PIE *i-tero- , from pronomial root *i- (see yon ).\n

Usage examples of iteration.

Core -- elements devoted to preserving not only the human race but some sort of alliance with your species -- destroyed one iteration of the John Keats cybrid, but a second was created and succeeded in its primary mission.

Oh he was princely indeed: that came out more and more with every word he said and with the particular way he said it, and Maisie could feel his monitress stiffen almost with anguish against the increase of his spell and then hurl herself as a desperate defence from it into the quite confessed poorness of violence, of iteration.

Through a series of meetings with this cosponsor, the team developed several iterations of its business plan.

Them he branded, as hypocritical materialists, and the country for pride in her sweetmeat plethora of them:--mixed with an ancient Hebrew fear of offence to an inscrutable Lord, eccentrically appeasable through the dreary iteration of the litany of sinfulness.

Only the notes of fall insects in their monotonous and ceaseless iteration were heard above the sighing wind, which now sounded like a requiem to the disheartened man.

They're the new iteration of Shriners, and every year they converge in Texas for the purpose of holing up in the cheapest hotel in Houston that will take them, right before Christmas (thus, Ho-Ho).

DNA was such a large molecule that each species required ten gigabytes of optical disk space to store details of all the iterations.

Very large percentages of processing time, and very large percentages of the volume of the physical positronic brain, were given over to massively, insanely redundant iterations of the Three Laws.

That even iteration rose from somewhere beyond her, repudiating her desire for sleep, demanding that she take it into account.

We'd be right back to iteration one of the waterfall model of singularity formation within a couple of gigaseconds of arriving.