Iteration (Noun)
Meaning 1
(computer science) executing the same set of instructions a given number of times or until a specified result is obtained; "the solution is obtained by iteration".
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Nouns denoting natural processes.
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Meaning 2
Doing or saying again; a repeated performance.
Classification
Nouns denoting acts or actions.
Examples
- The iteration of the joke became tedious as the comedian told it for the fifth time that night.
- After the fifth iteration of the presentation, the team was ready to take their proposal to the client.
- The teacher made sure the students practiced each phrase several times in repetition to solidify the new language skill in an iteration of drill and feedback.
- It was on the tenth iteration of the math problem that she finally solved it and moved on to the next one.
- In a successful iteration of their concert series, the musicians introduced a new artist who had just been discovered locally.
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Meaning 3
(computer science) a single execution of a set of instructions that are to be repeated; "the solution took hundreds of iterations".
Classification
Nouns denoting natural processes.