iterate

Plural: iterates

Verb

Verb Forms: iterated, iterating, iterates

• To repeat an action or process; to state again.
• to say, state, or perform again
• run or be performed again
  • "the function iterates"
• To perform or repeat an action on each item in a set.
• To perform or repeat an action on the results of each such prior action.
• To utter or do a second time or many times; to repeat.
• To repeat an activity, making incremental changes each time.

Noun

• An n-fold self-composition of a function.
• The image of a certain value under such a function.

Adj

• Said or done again; repeated.

Examples

• f²(x₀) is the second iterate of x₀ under f.
• He had to ITERATE his strategy, as the previous one wasn’t working.
• In mathematics, an iterated function is a function which is composed with itself, possibly ad infinitum, in a process called iteration.
• The max() function iterates through the data to find the highest value.
• to iterate advice

Synonyms

ingeminate, reiterate, repeat, restate, retell, repeated

Anagrams of iterate