computer science A single execution of a set of instructions that are to be repeated:
— The solution took hundreds of iterations.

synonym: loop.

Roget 90: duplication; doubling etc. v.; gemination, ingemination^†; reduplication; iteration etc. (repetition) 104; renewal.   

Roget 104: repetition, iteration, reiteration, harping, recurrence, succession, run; battology, tautology; monotony, tautophony; rhythm etc. 138; diffuseness, pleonasm, redundancy.    chimes, repetend, echo, ritornello^†, burden of a song, refrain; rehearsal; rechauffe [Fr.], rifacimento [It], recapitulation.    cuckoo etc. (imitation) 19; reverberation etc. 408; drumming etc. (roll) 407; renewal etc. (restoration) 660.    twice-told tale; old story, old song; second edition, new edition; reappearance, reproduction, recursion [Comp.]; periodicity etc. 138.    ... show more

Roget 604a: perseverance; continuance etc. (inaction) 143; permanence etc. (absence of change) 141; firmness etc. (stability) 150.    constancy, steadiness; singleness of purpose, tenacity of purpose; persistence, plodding, patience; sedulity etc. (industry) 682; pertinacy^†, pertinacity, pertinaciousness; iteration etc. 104; bottom, game, pluck, stamina, backbone, grit; indefatigability, indefatigableness; bulldog courage.    ... show more

Dutch: herhaling, iteratie

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.

synonym: looping.

Dutch: iteratie

Doing or saying again; a repeated performance.

Dutch: reïteratie
Polish: iteracja