A repetition structure used to repeat a group of statements depending on a condition.

a block of code that is executed repeatedly until some condition is met

a construction of the form while condition , program , end Here condition is a MATLAB functionm, as with the branching construction

a good choice here since the ambient temperature may be at the desired level before the compressor part of the program is executed

a loop used to run a block of code while a condition is true

a much more general loop than a for loop

a simple loop that keeps looping while something is true

a type of statement

A structure in a computer program that allows a sequence of instructions to be repeated while some condition remains true. See also Repeat Loop, Until Loop.

In most computer programming languages, a while loop is a control flow statement that allows code to be executed repeatedly based on a given boolean condition. The while loop can be thought of as a repeating if statement.