iterate Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb to say, state, or perform again
    reiterate; repeat; ingeminate; retell; restate.
    • She kept reiterating her request
  2. verb run or be performed again
    • the function iterates

WordNet

It"er*ate adjective
Etymology
L. iteratus, p. p. of iterare to repeat, fr. iterum again, prop. a compar. from the stem of is he, that; cf. L. ita so, item likewise, also, Skr. itara other, iti thus. Cf. Identity, Item.
Definitions
  1. Uttered or done again; repeated. Obs. Bp. Gardiner.
It"er*ate transitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Iterated ; present participle & verbal noun Iterating
Definitions
  1. To utter or do a second time or many times; to repeat; as, to iterate advice.
    Nor Eve to iterate Her former trespass feared. Milton.
It"er*ate adverb
Definitions
  1. By way of iteration.

Webster 1913