Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Characterized by or involving repetition, recurrence, reiteration, or repetitiousness.
- adj. Grammar Frequentative.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Repeating; repetitious.
- In grammar, frequentative, as some verbs.—
Wiktionary
- adj. Of a procedure that involves repetition of steps (iteration) to achieve the desired outcome; in computing this may involve a mechanism such as a loop.
- adj. grammar Expressive of an action that is repeated with frequency.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Repeating.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. marked by iteration
- n. the aspect of the verb that expresses the repetition of an action
Examples
“I also share Rob's push for a serious discussion of risks and tradeoffs, though the term "iterative risk management" isn't poised to take the public by storm.”
“So Patton has the right idea, but his use of the term iterative development is wrong.”
“Or you can start with the whole system/painting with low details, and refactor it completly with every step (what he calls iterative), adding more detail.”
“Science is often described as an iterative and cumulative process, a puzzle solved piece by piece, with each piece contributing a few hazy pixels of a much larger picture.”
“On December 12th, everyone should have short, terse, back-and-forth conversations that go nowhere in iterative loops.”
“In software development, this is called the Agile approach where developers code in short, iterative loops, constantly processing the feedback to refine the end product.”
“That approach, most recently stressed in the America's Climate Choices reports from the National Academies, is now called "iterative risk management.”
“Turbo codes are so-called iterative codes, which means that the decoder makes a series of guesses about what the encoded message is supposed to be.”
“Pseudocode supports the idea of iterative refinement.”
“Starting with the idea of iterative development, it's very common for teams to embrace practices like: daily standups pair programming spiking behavior - or test-driven development refactoring technical expertise continuous integration customer always available”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘iterative’.
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Words
phantasmagoria, eviscerate, avast, simulacrum, varicose, oblique, gestalt, ersatz, vernal, vivace, stellate, synecdoche and 321 more...
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INTERP - terminology management terms
Terms from the fields of terminology, lexicography, lexicology and corpus linguistics
reworder, rewording, parser, parsing, tagger, tagging, aligner, aligning, content analysis, content analyzer, corpus management, glossary and 546 more...
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webdev
random webdev lingo used primarily in computer programming.
( open list, randomness, technical jargon, geek speak )
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ajax, user, admin, frontend, backend, database, sql, protocol, call, dom, layout, ui and 439 more... -
scholarly writing words
decrement, replete, impel, iterative, subsume, tacit, vex, denote, impart, ascertain, coalesce, extant and 49 more...
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theory and history of art: terms and ...
phenomenological, nonphenomenological, kineticism, mechanizing, digitalizing, utations, trajectory, synthesized, spatio-temporal, proliferation, quantification, iterative and 118 more...
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andystardust's Words
liminal, soporific, solipsism, calumny, sanguine, egregious, inimical, corpus, divulge, a fortiori, salutary, evanescence and 118 more...
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My GRE
concomitant, mendacity, corollary, mandate, ascertain, exacerbate, substantiate, perennial, exemplify, hegemony, acrimonious, repertoire and 653 more...
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karnage's Words
furbelow, farinaceous, fendrake, rhizobium, imbricate, quaquaversal, exstasis, grapheme, scissiparity, apterous, obdurant, omphalos and 135 more...
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Words!
quixotic, lugubrious, laconic, terse, diaphanous, truculent, solipsism, meretricious, recondite, salacious, avuncular, obdurate and 229 more...
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semiotics, behemothic, resplendent, allegiant, visceral, ratiocination, promontory, amaranthine, pharmacopoeia, dichotomy, haematomesis, uxorios and 157 more...
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simple & useful13
rookeries, bottommost, nettlesome, extravaganza, galoot, gun moll, kludge, pollyannaish, bushwhacking, revivable, flourishing, resurgence and 97 more...
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tongue tippers
the ones that are just on the tip of the tongue, the ones that should be made celebrated members of my vocabulary, thank you
natant, prurient, antipodal, puerile, equipoise, choler, sui generis, exemplary, lodestar, rhetoric, bon mot, adjudicate and 91 more...
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Annoying Things
hebetude, mewl, agraphia, ahistorical, iterative, abasia, astasia, abeyance, obstructionist, obscurantism, toilworn, tokenism and 6 more...
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EAD
Just some random words that speak to me
fecklessness, malarky, absurd, quashed, hyperbole, woebegone, peripatetic, somber, sisyphean, bane, intolerance, bogus and 65 more...
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JohnWonderlich's Words
transparency, redundancy, discharge petition, point, twitter, penumbral, resplendent, incalculable, recrimination, trope, iterative, homunculus and 37 more...
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Master Word List
I like words for different reasons. I like some words for the way they sound. I like others for what they mean. Still others, I like because they remind me of the people who use them often. This li...
convivial, adroit, banal, bangle, capricious, castigate, chimera, elucidate, engender, equivocal, fetter, flux and 27 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for iterative.
jwjarvis iterative testing of ideas Sep 22, 2010