Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To say or perform again; repeat. synonym: repeat.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To utter or do again; repeat: as, to
iterate an advice or a demand. - Repeated.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Uttered or done again; repeated.
- adverb By way of iteration.
- transitive verb To utter or do a second time or many times; to repeat.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb computing, mathematics to perform or repeat an action on each item in a set or on the results of each such prior action
- noun mathematics a function that iterates
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb run or be performed again
- verb to say, state, or perform again
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Theoretically what you say may be partly true, but the key point, which I iterate, is that it is not the individual borrowers, even most of the sub-prime borrowers, who have defaulted.
Bush Team Seeks Dictatorial Financial Powers « Antiwar.com Blog 2008
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We want to take our time and experiment and iterate, which is exactly what we've done with the product, which is why we've had success.
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In a later podcast, Cutts said that while Buzz perhaps needed more testing, rapid deployment allowed Google to get rapid feedback on Buzz and "iterate" quickly and "try out a lot of different things" (see latter half of clip above).
Gawker Ryan Tate 2010
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Each tab keeps its own issue selection, which allows you to "iterate" through different query results at the same time.
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Our version of this rule is "iterate": once you've followed the "be crappy" rule, it's time to create new & better versions, all the time.
Alexandra Samuel 2009
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Joan and David -- partners, Tudor began to iterate and reiterate in a malicious and scornful chant.
Chapter 26 2010
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I must iterate that I had this thought in the midst of my dreaming, and I take it as an evidence of the merging of my two personalities, as evidence of a point of contact between the two disassociated parts of me.
CHAPTER II 2010
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So fail frequently but fail small; and iterate quickly.
Ramon Nuez: Listening to Nick Pudar at the Business Genome, in NYC Ramon Nuez 2011
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Danny Huynh, Associate Search Director at Razorfish, has this to say about the tool: We see the display ad builder as a great creative sandbox, allowing us to us to quickly test and iterate with new ad formats and capabilities that simple text ads can't offer.
New templates for coupon display ads, as used by Razorfish 2009
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So, just to re-iterate: Tim F., you are doing the work of our better angels here, and I thank you.
Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Call Me, Call Me Anytime 2010
arby commented on the word iterate
Since when is this a verb? It's more corporate-speak that I hate. Recent usage: "We need to iterate this problem."
July 26, 2008
sionnach commented on the word iterate
It's always been a verb, and has a perfectly natural place in the world of applied mathematics and computer programming.
July 26, 2008