I see only discussion and opinion - I dont see universal consensus.
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I still don't see anything approaching concrete evidenced-based universal agreement.
I only see debate and opinion.
You're asking for a lot!
Roo presents "bight" in one of the definitions, which leads
to some seemingly consistent terms "turn" & "round turn",
but whereas I think you'll be able to find tying instructions
that say "make a (round) turn ...", you'll find NOTHING that
says "make a
bight around ..." --"bight" isn't used in
such circumstances (and is used in "tied in the bight" (TIB)
which doesn't really fit with anything we're talking about here)!
On a similar idea, I think, I've pushed for enumerating the
series "grapevine", "dbl. grapevine", ... vice "...
overhand" JUST
to have the visible
number of *wraps*/"turns"? match the
verbal cue "double" or whichever --an
overhand knot lacking
any such "overwrap" (my term), and so "double overhand" gives
a verbal two-count to a structure with just one visible turn (but
two tucks-of-end(s), one might counter). Similarly for
"strangle
knot" and then multiples of that.
One could see that a specification to "make a
full turn around ..."
was aiming to close the loop with 360deg, but necessarily, being part
of tying to a spar, say, led to 540deg with returning the working end
to further tie off --i.e., the thought is closure, regardless of how much
wrapping beyond that one goes (up to making an obvious repetition).
In such a nomenclature, "turn" would be 180deg, "round turn" or
maybe "full turn" would be 540deg (hey, if exactly 540, you're just
parallel and separate from the other end --need to go 540+ for the
convergence!), as the context would imply the ultimate "U" turing
of the end for subsequent working.
.:. I'd be leery of trying to put much importance on this nomenclature,
but, still, building a consistent and usable nomenclature should be good,
if it doesn't entail much *spitting into the wind* of common parlance.
(And consider that "loops" in common parlance --and in much knotting
chatter-- are what might be strictly called "bights", as an example of
a heavily "overloaded" term; to which I have used "eyeknots", variously
as one/two words vice "loop knots" in hopes of clarity.)
--dl*
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