closed loop
noun
: an automatic control system in which an operation, process, or mechanism is regulated by feedback
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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).
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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
In a circular system, furniture products would be made without virgin materials, be designed to last longer and be fully reusable or recyclable, thus forming a closed loop.
—CNN, 5 Dec. 2022
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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
In a circular system, furniture products would be made without virgin materials, be designed to last longer and be fully reusable or recyclable, thus forming a closed loop.
—CNN, 5 Dec. 2022
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“Closed loop.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/closed%20loop. Accessed 3 Nov. 2025.
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