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Nitrate vs Iterate - What's the difference?

nitrate | iterate |

As nouns the difference between nitrate and iterate

is that nitrate is any salt or ester of nitric acid while iterate is a function that iterates.

As verbs the difference between nitrate and iterate

is that nitrate is to treat, or react, with nitric acid or a nitrate while iterate is to perform or repeat an action on each item in a set.

As an adjective iterate is

said or done again; repeated.

nitrate

English

(wikipedia nitrate)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (chemistry) Any salt or ester of nitric acid.

    • Derived terms

    * ammonia nitrate, ammonium nitrate * ammonium nitrate * amyl nitrate * assimilatory nitrate reductase * barium nitrate * beryllium nitrate * cadmium nitrate * caesium nitrate, cesium nitrate * calcium nitrate * cellulose nitrate * ceric ammonium nitrate * copper nitrate * dinitrate * ethyl nitrate * gallium nitrate * guanidine nitrate * hydrogen nitrate * hydroxylammonium nitrate * lead nitrate * lithium nitrate * magnesium nitrate * mercuric nitrate * mercurous nitrate * mononitrate * nitrate bath * nickel nitrate * nitrate of ammonia * nitrate of amyl * nitrate of baryta * nitrate of bismuth * nitrate of calcium * nitrate of cobalt * nitrate of copper * nitrate of lead * nitrate of lime * nitrate of mercury * nitrate of potash * nitrate of potassium * nitrate of silver * nitrate of soda * nitrate of sodium * nitrate of strontia * nitrate reductase * nitratine * nitration * nitrate reductase test * nitrate vulnerable zone * oxalonitrate * oxynitrate * palladium nitrate * peroxyacetyl nitrate * plumbous nitrate * plutonyl nitrate * potassium nitrate * promethium nitrate * silver-copper nitrate * silver nitrate * sodium nitrate * strontium nitrate * subnitrate * sulfonitrate, sulphonitrate * tellurium nitrate * thorium nitrate * uranic nitrate * uranium nitrate * uranyl nitrate

    Verb

    (nitrat)
  • To treat, or react, with nitric acid or a nitrate

    • Related terms

    * nitration

    Anagrams

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    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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