How is correctly called "parent" of nested loop?

I h开发者_JAVA百科ave a general question across the languages. How is correctly called the "parent" loop? The higher one:

for(int A=0;A<10;A++)
{
 for(int B=0;B<10;B++)
 {
 }
}

I would say the "outer loop" and the "inner loop".

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