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Traverse vs Iterate - What's the difference?

traverse | iterate |

In obsolete terms the difference between traverse and iterate

is that traverse is a screen or partition while iterate is said or done again; repeated.

As nouns the difference between traverse and iterate

is that traverse is a route used in mountaineering, specifically rock climbing, in which the descent occurs by a different route than the ascent while iterate is a function that iterates.

As verbs the difference between traverse and iterate

is that traverse is to travel across, often under difficult conditions while iterate is to perform or repeat an action on each item in a set.

As adjectives the difference between traverse and iterate

is that traverse is lying across; being in a direction across something else while iterate is said or done again; repeated.

As an adverb traverse

is athwart; across; crosswise.

traverse

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (climbing) A route used in mountaineering, specifically rock climbing, in which the descent occurs by a different route than the ascent.
  • (military) In fortification, a mass of earth or other material employed to protect troops against enfilade. It is constructed at right angles to the parapet.
  • (surveying) A series of points, with angles and distances measured between, traveled around a subject, usually for use as "control" i.e. angular reference system for later surveying work.
  • (obsolete) A screen or partition.
  • * 1499 , (John Skelton), The Bowge of Court :
    • Than sholde ye see there pressynge in a pace / Of one and other that wolde this lady see, / Whiche sat behynde a traves of sylke fyne, / Of golde of tessew the fynest that myghte be
  • * F. Beaumont
    • At the entrance of the king, / The first traverse was drawn.
  • Something that thwarts or obstructs.
    • He would have succeeded, had it not been for unlucky traverses not under his control.
  • A trick; a subterfuge.
  • (architecture) A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building.
    • (Gwilt)
  • (legal) A formal denial of some matter of fact alleged by the opposite party in any stage of the pleadings. The technical words introducing a traverse are absque hoc ("without this", i.e. without what follows).
  • (nautical) The zigzag course or courses made by a ship in passing from one place to another; a compound course.
  • (geometry) A line lying across a figure or other lines; a transversal.
  • (firearms) The turning of a gun so as to make it point in any desired direction.

    • Related terms

    * traversal

    Verb

  • To travel across, often under difficult conditions.
    • He will have to traverse the mountain to get to the other side.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • what seas you traversed , and what fields you fought
  • (computing) To visit all parts of; to explore thoroughly.
    • to traverse all nodes in a network
  • (artillery) To rotate a gun around a vertical axis to bear upon a military target.
    • to traverse a cannon
  • (climbing) To climb or descend a steep hill at a wide angle.
  • To lay in a cross direction; to cross.
  • * Dryden
    • The parts should be often traversed , or crossed, by the flowing of the folds.
  • To cross by way of opposition; to thwart with obstacles; to obstruct.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
    • I cannot but admit the force of this reasoning, which I yet hope to traverse .
  • To pass over and view; to survey carefully.
  • * South
    • My purpose is to traverse the nature, principles, and properties of this detestable vice — ingratitude.
  • (carpentry) To plane in a direction across the grain of the wood.
    • to traverse a board
  • (legal) To deny formally.
  • * Dryden
    • And save the expense of long litigious laws, / Where suits are traversed , and so little won / That he who conquers is but last undone.

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • athwart; across; crosswise

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Lying across; being in a direction across something else.
    • paths cut with traverse trenches
  • * Sir H. Wotton
    • Oak being strong in all positions, may be better trusted in cross and traverse work.
  • * Hayward
    • the ridges of the fallow field traverse

    Derived terms

    * traverse drill

    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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