iterate
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Definition
verb (English)
1. (computing) To perform or repeat an action on each item in a set.Examples: "The max() function iterates through the data to find the highest value."Synonyms: reiterate, iterate, reiterate, repeat, reprise
2. (computing, mathematics) To perform or repeat an action on the results of each such prior action.Examples: "In mathematics, an iterated function is a function which is composed with itself, possibly ad infinitum, in a process called iteration."
3. (transitive, archaic) To utter or do a second time or many times; to repeat.Examples: "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."archaictransitive
4. (design, ambitransitive) To repeat an activity, making incremental changes each time.Examples: "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."ambitransitive
noun (English)
1. (mathematics) An n-fold self-composition of a function.Examples: "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."
2. (mathematics) The image of a certain value under such a function.Examples: "f²(x₀) is the second iterate of x₀ under f."
adj (English)
1. (as a participle) Iterated.Examples: "Therfore I beseche you brethren doe not neglect this holsome & profitable sacrament, but diligently consyder what ayde and what grace is geuen vnto you in it, & if by your necgligence & fal ye haue lost that grace, for a great part: yet it may be recouered agayne, not by a newe Confirmation, which may not be iterate, but by your inward conuersion & faythfull penaunce, and after ye bee risen and haue recouered your strength agayne, than take better hede, and do not make heauye, nor dryue not a∣way the holy ghost from you, who flieth alwaies from fained ypocrisy & wil not dwel in that body that is subiect and seruaunt to synne"not-comparableobsolete
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