iterate

UK /ˈɪtəɹeɪt/ US /ˈɪtəɹeɪt/
verb 4noun 2adj 2

Definitions

verb

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.

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

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

to iterate advice

Nor Eve to iterate / Her former trespass feared.

4

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.

noun

1

An n-fold self-composition of a function.

An important example of such a semigroup in infinite dimensional Hilbert space is the weak operator closed monothetic semigroup generated by a linear operator with equibounded iterates.

2

The image of a certain value under such a function.

f²(x₀) is the second iterate of x₀ under f.

adj

1

Said or done again; repeated.

When our faith is otherwise well enough known, there needs no iterate confession, saith Baldwin, which if, as he saith, it be vain boasting rather than a Christian vertue in us to offer it, it can be no lesse than needlesse, imperious usurpation in them to call as to it.

2

Iterated.

Therfore I beseche you brethren doe not neglect this holsome & profitable sacrament, but diligently consyder what ayde and what grace is geuen vnto you in it, & if by your necgligence & fal ye haue lost that grace, for a great part: yet it may be recouered agayne, not by a newe Confirmation, which may not be iterate, but by your inward conuersion & faythfull penaunce, and after ye bee risen and haue recouered your strength agayne, than take better hede, and do not make heauye, nor dryue not a∣way the holy ghost from you, who flieth alwaies from fained ypocrisy & wil not dwel in that body that is subiect and seruaunt to synne

Your note

not saved
0 chars