Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act or an instance of iterating; repetition.
- noun A form, adaption, or version of something.
- noun Mathematics A computational procedure in which a cycle of operations is repeated, often to approximate the desired result more closely.
- noun The process of repeating a set of instructions a specified number of times or until a specific result is achieved.
- noun One cycle of a set of instructions to be repeated.
from The Century Dictionary.
- A saying or doing again, or over and over again; repetition; repeated utterance or occurrence.
- In mathematics, the repetition of an operation upon the product of that operation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Recital or performance a second time; repetition.
- noun (Computers) The execution of a statement or series of statements in a loop which is repeated in a computer program
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Recital or performance a second time; repetition.
- noun computing the use of repetition in a computer program, especially in the form of a
loop - noun computing a single repetition of the code within such a repetitive process
- noun A variation of a design.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (computer science) executing the same set of instructions a given number of times or until a specified result is obtained
- noun doing or saying again; a repeated performance
- noun (computer science) a single execution of a set of instructions that are to be repeated
Etymologies
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Examples
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Some Agile teams have used the term iteration 0 or sprint 0 - as a first development timebox set aside for this initial research along with getting the development environment setup and ready to go, and doing some initial architectural prototyping or "spiking" - the rough equivalent of high level design from an architectural perspective.
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Mozilla says the latest iteration is more than twice as fast as Firefox 3 and 10 times ...
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Each iteration is derived from the franchise reboots.
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To say social democracy has failed in every iteration is to deny the existence of northern Europe.
Matthew Yglesias » Americans Don’t Like “Socialism” But Many Democrats Do 2010
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Each iteration is derived from the franchise reboots.
Archive 2010-05-01 2010
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To say social democracy has failed in every iteration is to deny the existence of northern Europe.
Matthew Yglesias » Americans Don’t Like “Socialism” But Many Democrats Do 2010
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The iPhone, in it's current iteration, is remarkable in all that it has allowed me to do, in the way that it makes me more productive and efficient.
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His current iteration is a fast-talking, well-meaning, but la rgely unbearable mechanic.
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The first iteration is usually followed by the punch line "everybody gets a ride and its free."
From GTL to grenades: A 'Jersey Shore' glossary Liz Kelly 2010
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The technology has gone through much iteration from the ability to display a scene with a pinhole camera to permanently recording the scene to be viewed later.
Thoughts: The Age of Intelligent Cameras Code Monkey 2008
supafly123 commented on the word iteration
the act of iterating;
July 28, 2009