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closed loop
noun
: an automatic control system in which an operation, process, or mechanism is regulated by feedback
Examples of closed loop in a Sentence
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Rather than creating singular, closed loop AI tools like Microsoft, Google, OpenAI, and others, Apple’s AI paves the way for multiple technology partners (similar to Salesforce’s Einstein Copilot).
—Laura Bratton, Quartz, 11 June 2024
Researchers at the University of Birmingham have laid out a new, closed loop retrofit for industrial iron and steel furnaces that could reduce their overall greenhouse gas emissions by nearly 90 percent.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 30 Jan. 2023
Nathan’s closed loop system is a model for reciprocity or responding to one positive action with another.
—Jarret Jackson, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2023
The pilot stage product is still generating data to achieve the necessary certifications for the US market on its closed loop system that acts as a water battery to heat hot water in the winter and cool the water in the summer without limitations.
—Jennifer Castenson, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2022
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Word History
First Known Use
1951, in the meaning defined above
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“Closed loop.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/closed%20loop. Accessed 4 Nov. 2024.
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