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  • P.O.D.
    /P-O-D/ Acronym for `Piece Of Data' (as opposed to a code section). Usage pedantic and rare. See also {pod}.


    •  View Definition: loop through 

    loop through

    vt. To process each element of a list of things. "Hold on, I've got to loop through my paper mail." Derives from the computer-language notion of an iterative loop; compare `cdr down' (under cdr), which is less common among C and UNIX programmers. ITS hackers used to say `IRP over' after an obscure pseudo-op in the MIDAS PDP-10 assembler.