Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Repeating; repetitious.
- In grammar, frequentative, as some verbs.—
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Repeating.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of a
procedure that involvesrepetition of steps (iteration ) to achieve the desired outcome; in computing this may involve a mechanism such as aloop . - adjective grammar Expressive of an action that is
repeated withfrequency .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective marked by iteration
- noun the aspect of the verb that expresses the repetition of an action
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Examples
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I also share Rob's push for a serious discussion of risks and tradeoffs, though the term "iterative risk management" isn't poised to take the public by storm.
NYT > Home Page By ANDREW C. REVKIN 2011
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So Patton has the right idea, but his use of the term iterative development is wrong.
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Or you can start with the whole system/painting with low details, and refactor it completly with every step (what he calls iterative), adding more detail.
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Science is often described as an iterative and cumulative process, a puzzle solved piece by piece, with each piece contributing a few hazy pixels of a much larger picture.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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Science is often described as an iterative and cumulative process, a puzzle solved piece by piece, with each piece contributing a few hazy pixels of a much larger picture.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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Science is often described as an iterative and cumulative process, a puzzle solved piece by piece, with each piece contributing a few hazy pixels of a much larger picture.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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On December 12th, everyone should have short, terse, back-and-forth conversations that go nowhere in iterative loops.
When Photoshop Is Used For Evil emmycantbemeeko 2005
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In software development, this is called the Agile approach where developers code in short, iterative loops, constantly processing the feedback to refine the end product.
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That approach, most recently stressed in the America's Climate Choices reports from the National Academies, is now called "iterative risk management."
NYT > Home Page By ANDREW C. REVKIN 2011
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Turbo codes are so-called iterative codes, which means that the decoder makes a series of guesses about what the encoded message is supposed to be.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
jwjarvis commented on the word iterative
iterative testing of ideas
September 23, 2010