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.
Definition of iteration. 1  1 : the action or a process of iterating or repeating: such asa : a procedure in which repetition of a sequence of operations yields results successively closer to a desired resultb : the repetition of a sequence of computer instructions a specified number of times or until a condition is met â compare recursion.