iteration
/ɪtəˈreɪʃ(ə)n
/noun [mass noun]
1The repetition of a process or utterance.The most dramatic iteration came on the floor of the Senate, when he made it the centerpiece of a carefully prepared 20-minute oration....
- If I may repeat my iteration from an earlier post.
- Write a program for policy iteration and re-solve Jack's car rental problem with the following changes.
1.1Repetition of a mathematical or computational procedure applied to the result of a previous application, typically as a means of obtaining successively closer approximations to the solution of a problem.This factor analysis was based on the combined normative samples using principal factoring with iteration plus orthogonal rotation....
- Convergence is declared when the relative change in likelihood between successive iterations is less than a user-defined threshold.
- In successive iterations, the depth of the model also increases.
1.2 [count noun] A new version of a piece of computer hardware or software.By contrast, a traditional microprocessor would have had to run many iterations of the software to come up with the answer....
- Frequently there are a number of iterations, and the development cycle is lengthened and deadlines missed.
- We also rebooted between test iterations to clear out disk and memory caches.
Origin
Late Middle English: from Latin iteratio(n-), from the verb iterare (see iterate).