iterating

Verb

iterate (third-person singular simple present iterates, present participle iterating, simple past and past participle iterated)

1. To perform or repeat an action on each item in a set.
   • The max() function iterates through the data to find the highest value.

   Synonyms:

   reiterate, repeat, reprise

2. 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. (archaic, transitive) To utter or do a second time or many times; to repeat.
   • to iterate advice
4. (ambitransitive) To repeat an activity, making incremental changes each time.
   • For NASA and most private aerospace companies, a single crash is a setback that can take years to recover from. SpaceX works more like a Silicon Valley startup, where the goal is to fail quickly and iterate.December 13 2021, Molly Ball, Jeffrey Kluger, Alejandro de la Garza, “Elon Musk: Person of the Year 2021”, in Time Magazine, archived from the original on 13 Dec 2021

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