iteration
nounEtymology
From Latin iterātiō, from iterō. Morphologically iterate + -ion.
- derived from iterātiō
Definitions
A recital or a second performance
A recital or a second performance; a repetition.
A variation or version.
- The architect drafted several iterations of the floorplan before deciding on his final design.
- Still going strong in his ninth decade, Wein celebrates his 88th birthday behind the piano accompanied by the latest iteration of his band, the Newport All-Stars, featuring tenor saxophonist […]
- If proximity is built into the very concept of ecology, not to mention iterations of environmentalism such as the local food movement, then a distancing mode like irony seems utterly unecological and unenvironmentalist.
The use of repetition in a computer program, especially in the form of a loop.
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A single repetition of the code within such a repetitive process.
- The code calculates the appropriate value at each iteration.
The neighborhood
- synonymrepeat
- synonymreoccurrence
- neighborpolymorphic iteration
Derived
hexation, iteration mark, pentation, subiteration, tetration
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at iteration. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at iteration. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
10 hops · closes at iteration
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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