Associations to the word «Iteration»

Wiktionary

ITERATION, noun. Recital or performance a second time; repetition.
ITERATION, noun. A variation or version.
ITERATION, noun. (computing) the use of repetition in a computer program, especially in the form of a loop
ITERATION, noun. (computing) a single repetition of the code within such a repetitive process

Dictionary definition

ITERATION, noun. (computer science) a single execution of a set of instructions that are to be repeated; "the solution took hundreds of iterations".
ITERATION, noun. (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".
ITERATION, noun. Doing or saying again; a repeated performance.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats