(software, object-oriented programming) A behavioural design pattern that uses an iterator to traverse a container and access the container's elements, thus decoupling algorithms from containers.

plural of iteration mark

(linguistics) A punctuation mark or character used as a substitute for a repeated word or character, and generally handwritten as a form of abbreviation.

(grammar) A subclass of imperfective verbs that denote a continuously repeated action. An example in English would be the iterative verb sniffle, as opposed to the noniterative sniff.

(computer science, graph theory) A type of depth-first search in which each row of the tree is searched incrementally, simulating a breadth-first search with less memory usage.

plural of iterative deepening search

(programming) In functional programming, a composable abstraction for incrementally processing sequentially-presented chunks of data in a purely functional fashion.

plural of iteratee