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iterate
- /ˈɪtəɹeɪt/ UK
- /ˈaɪtəɹeɪt/ UK
- /ˈɪtəɹeɪt/ Canada, US
- [ˈɪɾəɹeɪt] Canada, US
- /ˈɪtəɹæɪt/ Australia
- [ˈɪɾəɹæɪt] Australia
- /ˈɪtərət/
Where it comes from
The adjective is first attested in 1471, in Middle English, the verb in 1533, the noun in 1941; partly inherited from Middle English iterat(e) (adjective), partly borrowed from Latin iterātus, perfect passive participle of iterō (“to do something for a second time, repeat”) (see -ate (etymology 1, 2 and 3)) , from iterum (“again”) + -ō. Sporadical participial usage of the adjective up until Early Modern English.
verb iterates · iterating · iterated
- To perform or repeat an action on each item in a set. The max() function iterates through the data to find the highest value.
- 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.
- To utter or do a second time or many times; to repeat. to iterate advice
- 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.
noun iterates
- 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.
- The image of a certain value under such a function. f²(x₀) is the second iterate of x₀ under f.
adjective
- Said or done again; repeated. When our faith is otherwise well enough known, there needs no iterate confession, saith Baldwin, which if, as he saith, it be vain boasting rather than a Christian vertue in us to offer it, it can be no lesse than needlesse, imperious usurpation in them to call as to it.
- Iterated. 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 m
