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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Marked by iteration; repeating.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Repeating.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Repeating; iterating.

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  • adjective Marked by repetition or iteration.

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Examples

  • Judith helped Cliantha and Pendrilla prepare a bit of supper for herself, aided in the clearing away and dish-washing, and after they had sat for a while with Granny Lusk and the old man in the porch, listening to the whippoorwills calling to each other, and all the iterant insect voices of a July night, went to their own room.

    Judith of the Cumberlands Alice MacGowan

  • Rose from their timorous sleep with piercing and iterant challenge,

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 Various

  • One iterant sound alone, as it drew closer, stirred the silence of that evening: it was the voice of one crying in the wilderness.

    Christmas Its Origin, Celebration and Significance as Related in Prose and Verse Robert Haven Schauffler 1921

  • [Greek: Battologein] autem illis dicitur qui voces easdem frequenter iterant sine causa, vel loquacitatis, vel naturae, vel consuetudinis vitio.

    Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

  • Junip, José González 'iterant full-band project, will release the new EP

    IT'S A TRAP! Scandinavian Music Journal 2010

  • Junip, José González 'iterant full-band project, will release the new EP

    IT'S A TRAP! Scandinavian Music Journal 2010

  • My great aunt, an American Jew and iterant traveler, visited Jerusalem and the Wailing Wall in the mid 1960's, when it was under Jordanian control.

    Israel Palestine Blogs 2009

  • While iterant professionals remain an important group of mobile workers, they are hardly the only one.

    Comments from all Computer Weekly blogs 2009

  • Bigotry and intolerance are not it seems the prerogative of iterant fundamentalists but now part and parcel of a new policy that aims to sanitise and censor not just culture but theocritise new legislation as well.

    timesofmalta.com 2009

  • He tormented himself with the ever iterant query, and, to the astonishment of the reformed Kohala poker crowd of wise and middle-aged youngsters as well as to the reward of the keen scrutiny of the dinner-giving and dinner-attending women, he began to drink King William instead of orange juice, to bully up the poker limit, to drive of nights his own car more than rather recklessly over the Pali and Diamond Head roads, and, ere dinner or lunch or after, to take more than an average man's due of old-fashioned cocktails and Scotch highs.

    THE KANAKA SURF 2010

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