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Iterate vs Recapitulate - What's the difference?

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Iterate is a related term of recapitulate.


As verbs the difference between iterate and recapitulate

is that iterate is (computing|mathematics) to perform or repeat an action on each item in a set while recapitulate is to summarize or repeat in concise form.

As a noun iterate

is (mathematics) a function that iterates.

As an adjective iterate

is (obsolete) said or done again; repeated.

iterate

English

Verb

(iterat)
  • (computing, mathematics) to perform or repeat an action on each item in a set
    • The max() function iterates through the data to find the highest value.
  • (computing, mathematics) to perform or repeat an action on the results of each such prior action
    • In mathematics, an iterated function is a function which is composed with itself, possibly ad infinitum, in a process called iteration.
  • (archaic) To utter or do a second time or many times; to repeat.
    • to iterate advice
  • * Milton
    • Nor Eve to iterate / Her former trespass feared.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (mathematics) a function that iterates
    • f2(x0) is the second iterate of x0 under f.

    Derived terms

    * reiterate * iterative * iterator

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (obsolete) Said or done again; repeated.
    • (Bishop Gardiner)

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    recapitulate

    English

    Verb

    (recapitulat)
  • to summarize or repeat in concise form
    • The entire symphony was recapitulated in the last four bars.
  • to repeat the evolutionary stages of an organism during its embryonic development
    • ''Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny.

    Synonyms

    * (to summarize or repeat in concise form) recap, sum up

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