Historical Examples. 1  The commonest rhythmical licences are inversion of accent and initial truncation. 2  The harm of it is, first of all, this, that it is an inversion of the true order. 3  What is remarkable in the scenery is, that its sublimity is an inversion of the sublimity of almost all other grand scenery.
Word Origin & History. iterate 1533, to do again, repeat, back-formation from iteration (1477), from L. iterationem (nom. iteratio) repetition, noun of action from iterare do again, repeat, from iterum again.. To repeat these things in the ears of well read Catholics, is to iterate a thrice-told tale.
Iteration. Iteration means the act of repeating a process with the aim of approaching a desired goal, target or result. Each repetition of the process is also called an iteration, and the results of one iteration are used as the starting point for the next iteration.