iterate

About 0.29 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To perform or repeat an action on each item in a set.

   The max() function iterates through the data to find the highest value.

2. verb To perform or repeat an action on the results of each such prior action.

   In mathematics, an iterated function is a function which is composed with itself, possibly ad infinitum, in a process called iteration.

3. verb To utter or do a second time or many times; to repeat.

   to iterate advice

4. verb To repeat an activity, making incremental changes each time.
5. noun An n-fold self-composition of a function.
6. noun The image of a certain value under such a function.

   f(x0) is the second iterate of x0 under f.

7. adjective Said or done again; repeated.
8. adjective Iterated.

Similar words

retell ingeminate reiterate repeat restate replicate echo paginate batch autoincrement

Often followed by

through over the of until to and on is

Word family

iterated iterates iterating