Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Repeating; repetitious.
  • In grammar, frequentative, as some verbs.—

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Repeating.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective 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.
  • adjective grammar Expressive of an action that is repeated with frequency.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective marked by iteration
  • noun the aspect of the verb that expresses the repetition of an action

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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.

    NYT > Home Page By ANDREW C. REVKIN 2011

  • So Patton has the right idea, but his use of the term iterative development is wrong.

    Scrum Log Jeff Sutherland 2010

  • 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.

    Scrum Log Jeff Sutherland 2010

  • 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.

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

  • 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.

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

  • 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.

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

  • On December 12th, everyone should have short, terse, back-and-forth conversations that go nowhere in iterative loops.

    When Photoshop Is Used For Evil emmycantbemeeko 2005

  • 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.

    New: All Things O'Reilly 2010

  • That approach, most recently stressed in the America's Climate Choices reports from the National Academies, is now called "iterative risk management."

    NYT > Home Page By ANDREW C. REVKIN 2011

  • 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.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

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  • iterative testing of ideas

    September 23, 2010