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iteration (n.)

"a saying or doing again, or over and over again; repeated utterance or occurrence," late 15c., from Latin iterationem (nominative iteratio) "a repetition," noun of action from past-participle stem of iterare "do again, repeat," from iterum "again," from PIE *i-tero-, from pronominal root *i- (see yon).

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Definitions of iteration from WordNet

iteration (n.)
(computer science) a single execution of a set of instructions that are to be repeated;
the solution took hundreds of iterations
Synonyms: loop
iteration (n.)
(computer science) executing the same set of instructions a given number of times or until a specified result is obtained;
the solution is obtained by iteration
Synonyms: looping
iteration (n.)
doing or saying again; a repeated performance;
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