What Does Iterative Means?
Iterative is a verb that expresses the repetition of an action. It is to be marked by iteration. Thus it means to be repetitive or cyclical. It is usually used in the present or imperfect tense. It is pronounced as IT-ter-a-teev and is used as an adjective. Hence it is to be characterized by or involving recurrence and reiteration. It is therefore a term that refers to being very frequentative. In computer programming, iterative is a situation where a sequence of instructions has to be executed multiple times. One pass through the sequence is called iteration. If the sequence of instructions is executed repeatedly, it is called a loop, it is said that the computer iterates through the loop. Thus it refers to a procedure that can be described by a preset number of variables and a set of rules that explains what happens to those variables to achieve the next step of the process.
