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单词 iteration
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iterationn.

/ɪtəˈreɪʃən/
Forms: Also 1500s yt-, itt-.
Etymology: < Latin iterātiōn-em, noun of action from iterāre to iterate v. Compare French itération (1488 in Godefroy).
The action of iterating or repeating, or process of being iterated.
1.
a. Repetition of an action or process (now usually implying frequency or long continuance); repeated performance; an instance of this. Formerly said esp. of readministering a sacrament.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > repeating > [noun]
reiteration?a1425
iteration1477
itering1530
repetition?1550
iteratinga1593
repeat1667
repeating1671
ringing of changes1734
dittoism1884
ofteninga1889
1477 T. Norton Ordinall of Alchimy vi, in E. Ashmole Theatrum Chem. Britannicum (1652) 100 The multitude of their Iteration.
?1550 J. Bale Apol. agaynste Papyst 18 Than grewe it into a name and use amonge that sort (as amonge the sectes of owr tyme the iteracyon of baptysme).
1694 W. Salmon Pharmacopœia Bateana i. xix. 551/2 For the three or four Iterations, the Regulus becomes apparently more bright and pure.
1790 W. Paley Horæ Paulinæ (1825) 159 The rules of good writing taught the ear to be offended with the iteration of the same sound.
1845 S. Austin tr. L. von Ranke Hist. Reformation in Germany (ed. 2) I. 3 The lifeless iteration of misunderstood doctrines and rites, which kill the soul.
1872 W. Minto Man. Eng. Prose Lit. Introd. 30 A person of strong tender feeling is not easily offended by the iteration of pathetic images.
b. Mathematics. The repetition of an operation upon its product, as in finding the cube of a cube; esp. the repeated application of a formula devised to provide a closer approximation to the solution of a given equation when an approximate solution is substituted in the formula, so that a series of successively closer approximations may be obtained; a single application of such a formula; also, the formula itself.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > number > mathematics > [noun] > mathematical enquiry > process of calculating > use of repeated procedure
recursion1895
iteration1924
1901 in N.E.D.
1924 E. T. Whittaker & G. Robinson Calculus of Observ. vi. 79 In 1674 a method depending on a new principle, the principle of iteration, was communicated in a letter from Gregory to Collins.
1941 London, Edinb. & Dublin Philos. Mag. 7th Ser. 32 374 After a few iterations the values of er much less than unity will hardly affect the results.
1960 G. N. Lance Numerical Methods for High Speed Computers i. 8 Whichever criterion is used to determine the end of the iteration, it is clear that the orders to evaluate f(xr) and f(xr + 1) are identical except that xr + 1 is used instead of xr. This kind of modification is made extremely simple on high-speed computers.
1968 E. T. Copson Metric Spaces viii. 115 The Newton-Raphson iteration xn + 1 = xnf(xn)/f′(xn) for solving the equation f(x) = 0.
c. Roman Law. (See quot. 1880.)
ΚΠ
1880 J. Muirhead tr. Ulpian Rules iii, in tr. Gaius Institutes 369 By iteration he becomes a Roman citizen who, having been made a latin after he had passed the age of thirty, is anew formally manumitted by the person who had the quiritarian right in him when a slave.
2. The repetition of something said; repeated utterance or assertion.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > speech > repetition > [noun]
replication?c1400
repetition?a1425
repeatingc1443
renovelling1483
regressiona1500
iteration1530
repeat1556
ingemination1576
iteratinga1593
iterancea1616
redoublinga1665
restatement1790
troll1790
repeatal1822
catching up1847
rewording1849
re-enunciation1855
iterancy1889
the mind > language > statement > [noun] > renewed or repeated
iteration1530
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 333 After yteracyons of the pronowne they use ever moij.
1556 J. Heywood Spider & Flie Concl. 50 Tedius Iteration therof I let passe.
1634 T. Heywood & R. Brome Late Lancashire Witches iiii. sig. H2 I will not aggravate thy griefe too much, By Needles iteration.
1759 S. Johnson Idler 6 Oct. 313 Any curious iteration of the same word.
1886 Manch. Examiner 29 Jan. 5/2 The House was told with suspicious iteration that the Government had nailed their colours to the mast.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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