From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Iteration \It'er*a"tion\, noun [L. iteratio.]
1. Recital or performance a second time; repetition. --Bacon.
What needs this iteration, woman? --Shak.
2. (Computers) The execution of a statement or series of statements in a loop which is repeated in a computer program; as, at each iteration, the counter is incremented by 2. [PJC]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: (computer science) a single execution of a set of instructions that are to be repeated; "the solution took hundreds of iterations" [syn: {loop}]
2: (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" [syn: {looping}]
3: doing or saying again; a repeated performance
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
36 Moby Thesaurus words for "iteration": conduplication, copy, copying, critique, doubling, duplicate, duplication, dwelling upon, elaboration, gemination, going over, imitation, ingemination, practicing, reaffirmation, recap, recapitulation, recital, recountal, recounting, reduplication, rehash, rehearsal, reissue, reiteration, repetition, replication, reprint, reproduction, restatement, resume, retelling, review, summary, summing up, twinning
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
iteration Repetition of a sequence of instructions. A fundamental part of many {algorithms}. Iteration is characterised by a set of initial conditions, an iterative step and a termination condition. A well known example of iteration in mathematics is Newton-Raphson iteration. Iteration in programs is expressed using {loops}, e.g. in {C}: new_x = n/2; do { x = new_x; new_x = 0.5 * (x + n/x); } while (abs(new_x-x) > epsilon); Iteration can be expressed in functional languages using recursion: solve x n = if abs(new_x-x) > epsilon then solve new_x n else new_x where new_x = 0.5 * (x + n/x) solve n/2 n (1998-04-04)
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