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Strange loop

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time loopnoun(chiefly science fiction) A hypothetical or fictional instance of characters living through a set period of time repeatedly until the loop can be broken.
loopingnounSomething that loops; a looped pattern or action.
closed loopnounA feedback loop, especially when found in:
circularismnounA circular approach or situation, in which one goes round in circles without making progress.
closed time loopnoun(science fiction) A chain of events in which someone or something time travels to the past as a means to fulfill their role in the history exactly as it already happened, thus implying impossibility to change the past.
core loopnounSynonym of compulsion loop.
circular referencenoun(computing) A series of references, where the last object references the first.
circlenoun(geometry) A two-dimensional geometric figure, a line, consisting of the set of all those points in a plane that are equally distant from a given point (center).
feedback loopnounA self-reinforcing or self-weakening effect.
paradoxnounAn apparently self-contradictory statement, which can only be true if it is false, and vice versa.
vicious cyclenounAlternative form of vicious circle. [A situation in which the response to one problem creates a chain of problems, each making it more difficult to solve the original one.]
endless chainnounA chain having the ends joined to one another so as to form a continuous loop.
vicious circlenounA situation in which the response to one problem creates a chain of problems, each making it more difficult to solve the original one.
groundhog daynoun(informal) A situation in which events appear to be repeating themselves in a cyclical fashion.
yablo's paradoxnounA logical paradox resembling the liar paradox but using, instead of a single sentence, an infinite sequence of statements, each referring to the truth values of the later statements in the sequence, and thus attempting to avoid circularity.
cyclicitynoun(uncountable) The state of recurring at regular intervals; of being cyclic.
palindromenounA word, phrase, number or any other sequence of units which has the property of reading the same forwards as it does backwards, character for character, sometimes disregarding punctuation, capitalization and diacritics.
back-and-forthingnounThe situation where something figuratively oscillates back and forth.
alogismnounIrrationality; the rejection of logical thinking as a means of approaching truth.
positive feedbacknoun(figurative) Feedback which builds upon previous feedback.

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