# iterate
## English
### Etymology

From Latin iterō (“do it for a second time, repeat”), from iterum (“again”), akin to is (“he, that”).

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈɪtəɹeɪt/, /ˈaɪtəɹeɪt/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (US, Canada) IPA: /ˈɪtəɹeɪt/, [ˈɪɾəɹeɪt]
* (General Australian) IPA: /ˈɪtəɹæɪt/, [ˈɪɾəɹæɪt]

### Verb

iterate (third-person singular simple present iterates, present participle iterating, simple past and past participle iterated)
* (computing) To perform or repeat an action on each item in a set.
    The max function iterates through the data to find the highest value.
* (computing, mathematics) 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.
* (transitive, archaic) To utter or do a second time or many times; to repeat.
    to iterate advice
** 1667, John Milton, “Book VIII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:Nor Eve to iterate / Her former trespass feared.
** 1842, William Leman Rede, The Royal Rake: and the Adventures of Alfred Chesterton, page 25:"Where's your money?" Jack exclaimed, hoarsely, in a well-feigned voice. "Ah! where's the rowdy?" iterated Clayton, in a tone it was impossible to conceal.
* (design, transitive, intransitive) To repeat an activity, making incremental changes each time.
** December 13 2021, Molly Ball, Jeffrey Kluger, Alejandro de la Garza, “Elon Musk: Person of the Year 2021”, in Time Magazine‎: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.

#### Synonyms

* (to repeat): reiterate; see also Thesaurus:reiterate

#### Translations
### Noun

iterate (plural iterates)
* (mathematics) An n-fold self-composition of a function.
** 2011, M. A. Kaashoek, T. T. West, Locally Compact Semi-Algebras, page 8: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.
* (mathematics) The image of a certain value under such a function.
    f$^2$(x$_0$) is the second iterate of x$_0$ under f.

#### Derived terms

* reiterate
* iterative
* iterator

### Adjective

iterate (not comparable)
* (obsolete) Said or done again; repeated.
** 1558, Thomas Watson, Sermons on the Ssacraments:The baptisme is good and may not be iterate and geuen agayne.

#### Synonyms

* See Thesaurus:repeated

### Further reading

* “iterate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* “iterate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
* “iterate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

### Anagrams

* ariette

## Italian
### Etymology 1
#### Verb

iterate
* inflection of iterare:
** second-person plural present indicative
** second-person plural imperative

### Etymology 2
#### Participle

iterate f pl
* feminine plural of iterato

### Anagrams

* ariette, iettare, ietterà

## Latin
### Verb

iterāte
* second-person plural present active imperative of iterō

## Spanish
### Verb

iterate
* second-person singular voseo imperative of iterar combined with te