iterate

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To perform or repeat an action on each item in a set.

   • The max() function iterates through the data to find the highest value.
2. 2

   To perform or repeat an action on the results of each such prior action.

   • In mathematics, an iterated function is a function which is composed with itself, possibly ad infinitum, in a process called iteration.
3. 3

   To utter or do a second time or many times

   To utter or do a second time or many times; to repeat.

   • to iterate advice
   • Nor Eve to iterate / Her former trespass feared.
   • "Where's your money?" Jack exclaimed, hoarsely, in a well-feigned voice. "Ah! where's the rowdy?" iterated Clayton, in a tone it was impossible to conceal.
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   1. 4

      To repeat an activity, making incremental changes each time.

      • For NASA and most private aerospace companies, a single crash is a setback that can take years to recover from. SpaceX works more like a Silicon Valley startup, where the goal is to fail quickly and iterate.
   2. 5

      An n-fold self-composition of a function.

      • An important example of such a semigroup in infinite dimensional Hilbert space is the weak operator closed monothetic semigroup generated by a linear operator with equibounded iterates.
   3. 6

      The image of a certain value under such a function.

      • f²(x₀) is the second iterate of x₀ under f.
   4. 7

      Said or done again

      Said or done again; repeated.

   5. 8

      Iterated.

The neighborhood

• neighboriteration
• neighboriterative
• neighborreiterate