iteration
Noun
Plural: iterations
Pronunciation and accent: ItəreISən
Etymology: from Latin iteratio, noun of action from iterare to iterate, which is from iterum: again. Semantic-etymological identity with French itération, Italian iterazione and Spanish iteración.
English vocables derived from Latin iterare: reiteration, reiterable, reiterance, reiterant, reiterate, reiterating, reiterated, reiteratedly, reiteratedness, reiterative, reiteratively, iterative, iterativeness, iteratively, iterated, iterate (noun), iterate (verb), iterating (noun), iterant, iterancy, iterance.
1. The action of iterating or repeating, or the process of being iterated; repetition of an action or a process.
Synonyms: reiteration; repeat; repetition
In these lofty retreats they [the monkeys] are found in such numbers, as to annoy the traveler, as well by the petulance of their motions as by the incessant iteration of their cries.
Oliver Goldsmith (A History of the Earth and Animated Nature)
[Green Woodpecker] The constant iteration of its cry before rain (which brings out the insects on which it feeds) gives it the names Rain bird […]Dirt bird, Storm cock.
Charles Swainson (British Birds, 1885)
The blushes came and went with the most exquisite iteration of modesty and shame imaginable.
Virginia Wolf (Orlando)
[...] their transmarine possessions became expensive incumbrances, rather than sources of revenue; and through the iteration of such losses, more than by our naval victories, or colonial conquests, the house of Bourbon was vanquished by the masters of the sea.
James Stephen (The Frauds of the Neutral Flags
2. The repetition of something said or written; iterated utterance.
[…] iteration of uncontradicted assertion.
John Stuart Mill (A System of Logic)
[…] any curious iteration of the same word.
Samuel Johnson (The Adventurer and Idler)
[…] that exquisite episode in the history of the new world, which, appealing equally to the affections and the imagination, has never lost the charm of its original loveliness and freshness, even though a thousand iterations have made it the most familiar of all our forest stories.
William Gilmore Simms (The Life of Captain John Smith) OTHER DICTIONARIES BY ESTEFALU: