Iterate vs Renew - 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.
(lb) To make (something) new again; to restore to freshness or original condition.
*c.1596-98 , ,
*:In such a night / Medea gather’d the enchanted herbs / That did renew old AEson.
(lb) To replace (something which has broken etc.); to replenish (something which has been exhausted), to keep up a required supply of.
(lb) To make new spiritually; to regenerate.
*1526 , (William Tyndale), , Romans 12.2:
*:And fassion not youre selves lyke vnto this worlde: But be ye chaunged in youre shape by the renuynge of youre wittes that ye maye fele what thynge that good yt acceptable and perfaycte will of god is.
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*:to such as are in fear they strike a great impression, renew many times, and recal such chimeras and terrible fictions into their minds.
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*2010 September, Michael Allen, "St. Louis Preservation Fund", , ISSN 1090-5723, Vol.16, Is.9, p.74:
(lb) To begin again; to recommence.
*, IV.8:
*:Then gan he all this storie to renew , / And tell the course of his captivitie.
*1660 , (John Dryden), translating Virgil, (apparently from Eclogue 4''), a snippet of translation used to introduce Dryden's ''
*:The last great age, foretold by sacred rhymes, / Renews its finished course ; Saturnian times / Roll round again.
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*:“A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron;. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache.
(lb) To repeat.
*1674 , (John Milton), :
*:The birds their notes renew , and bleating herds / Attest their joy, that hill and valley rings.
To extend a period of loan, especially a library book that is due to be returned.
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Iterate is a related term of renew.
As verbs the difference between iterate and renew
is that iterate is (computing|mathematics) to perform or repeat an action on each item in a set while renew is (lb) to make (something) new again; to restore to freshness or original condition.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)- 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)
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Verb
(en verb)II.2.6.ii:
- Renewing neighborhoods dealing with vacant buildings badly need options other than demolition or dangerous vacant spaces.
Astræa Redux: A poem on the happy restoration and return of His Sacred Majesty Charles II