Theadjective is first attested in 1471, inMiddle English, theverb in 1533, thenoun in 1941; partlyinherited fromMiddle Englishiterat(e)(adjective), partlyborrowed fromLatiniterātus,perfectpassiveparticiple ofiterō(“to do something for a second time, repeat”) (see-ate(etymology 1, 2 and 3)) , fromiterum(“again”) +-ō. Sporadical participial usage of theadjective up untilEarly Modern English.
- verb
- noun
iterate (third-person singular simple presentiterates,present participleiterating,simple past and past participleiterated)
- (computing) To perform or repeat an action on each item in a set.
- Synonyms:reiterate;see alsoThesaurus:reiterate
The max() functioniterates through the data to find the highest value.
- (computing, mathematics) To perform or repeat an action on the results of each such prior action.
In mathematics, aniterated function is a function which is composed with itself, possibly ad infinitum, in a process called iteration.
- (transitive, archaic) To utter or do a second time or many times; to repeat.
toiterate advice
1667,John Milton, “Book VIII”, inParadise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […];[a]nd by Robert Boulter […];[a]nd Matthias Walker, […],→OCLC; republished asParadise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […],1873,→OCLC:Nor Eve toiterate / Her former trespass feared.
1842, William Leman Rede,The Royal Rake: and the Adventures of Alfred Chesterton, page25:"Where's your money?" Jack exclaimed, hoarsely, in a well-feigned voice.
"Ah! where's therowdy?"iterated Clayton, in a tone it was impossible to conceal.
- (design, ambitransitive) Torepeat an activity, makingincremental changes each time.
December 13 2021, Molly Ball, Jeffrey Kluger, Alejandro de la Garza, “Elon Musk: Person of the Year 2021”, inTime Magazine[1], archived fromthe original on13 December 2021: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 anditerate.
To utter or do a second time
iterate (pluraliterates)
- (mathematics) Ann-fold self-composition of a function.
2011, M. A. Kaashoek, T. T. West,Locally Compact Semi-Algebras, page 8: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 equiboundediterates.
- (mathematics) The image of a certain value under such a function.
f2(x0) is the seconditerate of x0 under f.
iterate (notcomparable)(obsolete)
- Said or done again; repeated.
- Synonym:seeThesaurus:repeated
1657,William Morice,Coena quasi koinē[2]:When our faith is otherwise well enough known, there needs noiterate 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.
- (as a participle)Iterated.
1558,Thomas Watson, Sermon V, of the Sacrament of Confirmation, inHolsome and catholyke doctryne concerninge the seuen Sacramentes of Chrystes Church expedient to be knowen of all men, set forth in maner of shorte sermons to bee made to the people[3], page XXVIII: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 beiterate, 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
- “iterate”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney,Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “iterate”, inThe Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.:The Century Co.,→OCLC.
- “iterate”, inOneLook Dictionary Search.
iterate
- inflection ofiterare:
- second-personpluralpresentindicative
- second-personpluralimperative
iterate f pl
- feminineplural ofiterato
iterāte
- second-personpluralpresentactiveimperative ofiterō
iterate
- second-personsingular voseoimperative ofiterar combined withte
