Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act or an instance of iterating; repetition.
- n. Mathematics A computational procedure in which a cycle of operations is repeated, often to approximate the desired result more closely.
- n. Computer Science The process of repeating a set of instructions a specified number of times or until a specific result is achieved.
- n. Computer Science One cycle of a set of instructions to be repeated: After ten iterations, the program exited the loop.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- A saying or doing again, or over and over again; repetition; repeated utterance or occurrence.
- In mathematics, the repetition of an operation upon the product of that operation.
Wiktionary
- n. Recital or performance a second time; repetition.
- n. computing the use of repetition in a computer program, especially in the form of loop
- n. computing a single repetition of the code within such a repetitive process
- n. A variation of a design.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Recital or performance a second time; repetition.
- n. (Computers) The execution of a statement or series of statements in a loop which is repeated in a computer program
WordNet 3.0
- n. (computer science) executing the same set of instructions a given number of times or until a specified result is obtained
- n. doing or saying again; a repeated performance
- n. (computer science) a single execution of a set of instructions that are to be repeated
Etymologies
- From Latin iterātiō, from iterō. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Some Agile teams have used the term iteration 0 or sprint 0 - as a first development timebox set aside for this initial research along with getting the development environment setup and ready to go, and doing some initial architectural prototyping or "spiking" - the rough equivalent of high level design from an architectural perspective.”
“Mozilla says the latest iteration is more than twice as fast as Firefox 3 and 10 times ...”
“His current iteration is a fast-talking, well-meaning, but la rgely unbearable mechanic.”
“To say social democracy has failed in every iteration is to deny the existence of northern Europe.”
Matthew Yglesias » Americans Don’t Like “Socialism” But Many Democrats Do
“The iPhone, in it's current iteration, is remarkable in all that it has allowed me to do, in the way that it makes me more productive and efficient.”
“The first iteration is usually followed by the punch line "everybody gets a ride and its free.”
The Washington Post: From GTL to grenades: A 'Jersey Shore' glossary
“Each iteration is derived from the franchise reboots.”
“The technology has gone through much iteration from the ability to display a scene with a pinhole camera to permanently recording the scene to be viewed later.”
“Each iteration is imbued not just with its intrinsic value, but also with the added value of his reinterpretation.”
“Even if the first iteration is a combination of Microsoft, Yahoo, Amazon, Dark Web startups, the purchase of Technorati, and some devious PHd research on clickfraud.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘iteration’.
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SCIE - natural language processing
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SweetZingiber's list
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Mathematics in real life
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scholarly writing words
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Words To Use In Creative Writing
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Just 'cause I like 'em, I
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my words
iteration, syzygy, levigate, fimbriated, palzogony, dilatory, tmesis
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My List
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Listless no more,
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Tweets
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supafly123 the act of iterating; Jul 28, 2009