Definition of "iteration"

iteration

/ɪtəɹˈeɪʃən/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural iterations
1. Recital or performance a second time; repetition.
2. A variation or version.
  Quotations
  Still going strong in his ninth decade, Wein celebrates his 88th birthday behind the piano accompanied by the latest iteration of his band, the Newport All-Stars, featuring tenor saxophonist […]
  2014, “Jazz at Lincoln Center”, in Radio New Zealand Schedule for Saturday 6th December‎
  If proximity is built into the very concept of ecology, not to mention iterations of environmentalism such as the local food movement, then a distancing mode like irony seems utterly unecological and unenvironmentalist.
  2018, Nicole Seymour, Bad Environmentalism, page 12
  Three or four complete iterations of various options are needed to gain cross-industry agreement.
  2020 October 7, Gordon Dudman, “Railway timetabling is a challenge even at the best of times”, in Rail, page 48
3. (computing) The use of repetition in a computer program, especially in the form of a loop.
4. (computing) A single repetition of the code within such a repetitive process.