Iterate vs Refine - What's the difference?
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(computing, mathematics) to perform or repeat an action on each item in a set
(computing, mathematics) to perform or repeat an action on the results of each such prior action
(archaic) To utter or do a second time or many times; to repeat.
* Milton
(obsolete) Said or done again; repeated.
To reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; to free from impurities; to free from dross or alloy; to separate from extraneous matter; to purify
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, title= To purify from what is gross, coarse, vulgar, inelegant, low, and the like; to make elegant or excellent; to polish.
To become pure; to be cleared of feculent matter.
To improve in accuracy, delicacy, or excellence.
To affect nicety or subtlety in thought or language.
As verbs the difference between iterate and refine
is that iterate is to perform or repeat an action on each item in a set while refine is to reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; to free from impurities; to free from dross or alloy; to separate from extraneous matter; to purify.As a noun iterate
is a function that iterates.As an adjective iterate
is said or done again; repeated.iterate
English
Verb
(iterat)- The max() function iterates through the data to find the highest value.
- In mathematics, an iterated function is a function which is composed with itself, possibly ad infinitum, in a process called iteration.
- to iterate advice
- Nor Eve to iterate / Her former trespass feared.
Derived terms
* reiterate * iterative * iteratorAdjective
(-)- (Bishop Gardiner)
External links
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English
Verb
(refin)Yesterday’s fuel, passage=The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania.