ITERATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does iteration mean? 

• ITERATION (noun)
  The noun ITERATION has 3 senses:

1. (computer science) a single execution of a set of instructions that are to be repeated

2. (computer science) executing the same set of instructions a given number of times or until a specified result is obtained

3. doing or saying again; a repeated performance

  Familiarity information: ITERATION used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ITERATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(computer science) a single execution of a set of instructions that are to be repeated

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Synonyms:

iteration; loop

Context example:

the solution took hundreds of iterations

Hypernyms ("iteration" is a kind of...):

physical process; process (a sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states)

Domain category:

computer science; computing (the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures)

Derivation:

iterate (to say, state, or perform again)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(computer science) executing the same set of instructions a given number of times or until a specified result is obtained

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Synonyms:

iteration; looping

Context example:

the solution is obtained by iteration

Hypernyms ("iteration" is a kind of...):

physical process; process (a sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states)

Domain category:

computer science; computing (the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures)

Derivation:

iterate (to say, state, or perform again)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Doing or saying again; a repeated performance

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("iteration" is a kind of...):

repeating; repetition (the act of doing or performing again)

Derivation:

iterate (to say, state, or perform again)

 Context examples 

With each successive iteration, researchers think successor moons would have been five times smaller than the previous moon, with some debris raining down on the Martian surface.

(Mars May Have Had Rings, and May Once Again, VOA News)

I did not like this iteration of one idea—this strange recurrence of one image, and I grew nervous as bedtime approached and the hour of the vision drew near.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Through several iterations of materials engineering, plus analyses performed in collaboration with scientists at the Gemological Institute of America, the team produced neutral silicon vacancies in diamonds.

(Key Tech for Quantum Communications Offered by Implanting Diamonds with Flaws, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Excited by the day- long pursuit of him, swayed subconsciously by the insistent iteration on their brains of the sight of him fleeing away, mastered by the feeling of mastery enjoyed all day, the dogs could not bring themselves to give way to him.

(White Fang, by Jack London)