Meanings
adjectivemultiloop (not comparable)
alternative multi-loop
- not comparableHaving or employing multiple loops.
nounmultiloop (plural multiloops)
plural multiloops · alternative multi-loop
- biologyA loop with three or more closing pairs.
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.
1989, Michael S. Waterman, Mathematical methods for DNA sequences - natural sciencesA disconnected Wilson loop.
Also, it is not clear if the scattering of multiloops in this formalism is truly finite.
2021, Michio Kaku, The God Equation
Origin
- Proto-Italic*moltos
- Latinmultus
- Latinmultī
- Middle Englishmulti-
- Englishmulti-
- Englishloop
- Englishmultiloop
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