Definition of "iteration" []

• The act or an instance of iterating; repetition. (noun)
• Mathematics A computational procedure in which a cycle of operations is repeated, often to approximate the desired result more closely. (noun)
• Computer Science The process of repeating a set of instructions a specified number of times or until a specific result is achieved. (noun)
• Computer Science One cycle of a set of instructions to be repeated: After ten iterations, the program exited the loop. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Some Agile teams have used the term iteration 0 or sprint 0 - as a first development timebox set aside for this initial research along with getting the development environment setup and ready to go, and doing some initial architectural prototyping or "spiking" - the rough equivalent of high level design from an architectural perspective."
• "Mozilla says the latest iteration is more than twice as fast as Firefox 3 and 10 times ..."
• "His current iteration is a fast-talking, well-meaning, but la rgely unbearable mechanic."