Definition of "iterate"

iterate

/ˈɪtəɹeɪt/

verb
third-person singular simple present iterates, present participle iterating, simple past and past participle iterated
1. (computing) to perform or repeat an action on each item in a set
2. (computing, mathematics) to perform or repeat an action on the results of each such prior action
3. (transitive, archaic) To utter or do a second time or many times; to repeat.
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  Nor Eve to iterate / Her former trespass feared.
  1667, John Milton, “Book VIII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873,
4. (design, transitive, intransitive) To repeat an activity, making incremental changes each time
  Quotations
  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.
  December 13 2021, Molly Ball, Jeffrey Kluger, Alejandro de la Garza, “Elon Musk: Person of the Year 2021”, in Time Magazine‎
noun
plural iterates
1. (mathematics) a function that iterates
  Quotations
  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.
  2011, M. A. Kaashoek, T. T. West, Locally Compact Semi-Algebras, page 8
adjective
not comparable
1. (obsolete) Said or done again; repeated.
  Quotations
  The baptisme is good and may not be iterate and geuen agayne.
  1558, Thomas Watson, Sermons on the Ssacraments

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