different between traverse vs iterate

English

Etymology

From Middle English traversen, from Old French traverser, from Latin trans (“across”) + versus (“turned”), perfect passive participle of Latin vertere (“to turn”).

Pronunciation

All parts of speech:

• (General American) IPA^(key): /t???v?s/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /t???v??s/
• Rhymes: -??(?)s
• Hyphenation: tra?verse

Alternative noun pronunciation:

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?t?æv?s/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?t?æv?s/
• Hyphenation: trav?erse

Noun

traverse (plural traverses)

1. (climbing) A route used in mountaineering, specifically rock climbing, in which the descent occurs by a different route than the ascent.
2. (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.
3. (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 […]

   • 1613, Francis Beaumont, The Masque of the Inner Temple and Gray's Inn

     At the entrance of the king, / The first traverse was drawn.

4. Something that thwarts or obstructs.

   He will succeed, as long as there are no unlucky traverses not under his control.

5. (architecture) A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building.

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6. (law) 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).
7. (nautical) The zigzag course or courses made by a ship in passing from one place to another; a compound course.
8. (geometry) A line lying across a figure or other lines; a transversal.
9. (military) In trench warfare, a defensive trench built to prevent enfilade.
   • 1994, Stephen R. Wise, Gate of Hell: Campaign for Charleston Harbor, 1863 (page 160)

     At night, when the Federal guns slowed their fire, the men created new traverses and bombproofs.

10. (obsolete) A traverse board.
    • 1789, Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative, vol. I, ch. 7:

      The whole care of the vessel rested, therefore, upon me, and I was obliged to direct her by my former experience, not being able to work a traverse.

Related terms

• Grand Traverse County
• traversal
• Traverse City
• Traverse County
• traversive
• travis

Translations

Verb

traverse (third-person singular simple present traverses, present participle traversing, simple past and past participle traversed)

1. (transitive) To travel across, often under difficult conditions.

   He will have to traverse the mountain to get to the other side.
2. (transitive, computing) To visit all parts of; to explore thoroughly.

   to traverse all nodes in a network

3. To lay in a cross direction; to cross.
   • 1695, John Dryden (translator), Observations on the Art of Painting by Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy

     The parts should be often traversed, or crossed, by the flowing of the folds.

4. (artillery) To rotate a gun around a vertical axis to bear upon a military target.

   to traverse a cannon

5. (climbing), To climb or descend a steep hill at a wide angle (relative to the slope).
6. (engineering, skiing) To (make a cutting, an incline) across the gradients of a sloped face at safe rate.

   the road traversed the face of the ridge as the right-of-way climbed the mountain

   The last run, weary, I traversed the descents in no hurry to reach the lodge.

7. To act against; to thwart or obstruct.
   • 1764, Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto, II:

     The well-meaning priest suffered him to deceive himself, fully determined to traverse his views, instead of seconding them.
8. To pass over and view; to survey carefully.
   • 1675, Robert South, Of the odious Sin of Ingratitude (A Sermon preached at Christ-Church, Oxon, October 17, 1675)

     My purpose is to […] traverse the nature, principles, and properties of this detestable vice — ingratitude.

9. (carpentry) To plane in a direction across the grain of the wood.

   to traverse a board

10. (law) To deny formally.
    • 1699, John Dryden, Epistle to John 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.

11. (intransitive, fencing) To use the motions of opposition or counteraction.

Translations

Adverb

traverse (comparative more traverse, superlative most traverse)

1. athwart; across; crosswise

Adjective

traverse (comparative more traverse, superlative most traverse)

1. Lying across; being in a direction across something else.

   paths cut with traverse trenches

   • 1624, Henry Wotton, The Elements of Architecture

     Oak […] being strong in all positions, may be better trusted in cross and traverse work.

   • 1630, John Hayward, The Life and Raigne of King Edward VI

     the ridges of the fallow field lay trauerse

Derived terms

• traverse drill

Anagrams

• averters

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?a.v??s/
• IPA^(key): /t?a.v??s/

Etymology 1

From Vulgar Latin traversa, feminine of traversus.

Noun

traverse f (plural traverses)

1. crossing
2. (literary) obstacle, hurdle
3. (rail transport) sleeper (UK), tie (US)

Etymology 2

Inflected forms.

Verb

traverse

1. inflection of traverser:
   1. first-person and third-person singular present indicative
   2. first-person and third-person singular present subjunctive
   3. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• réservât, reversât

Further reading

• “traverse” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Adjective

traverse

1. feminine plural of traverso

Noun

traverse f

1. plural of traversa

Anagrams

• varreste

English

Etymology

From Latin iter? (“do it for a second time, repeat”), from iterum (“again”), akin to is (“he, that”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??t??e?t/, /?a?t??e?t/

Verb

iterate (third-person singular simple present iterates, present participle iterating, simple past and past participle iterated)

1. (computing) to perform or repeat an action on each item in a set

2. (computing, mathematics) to perform or repeat an action on the results of each such prior action

3. (transitive, archaic) To utter or do a second time or many times; to repeat.
4. (design, transitive, intransitive) To repeat an activity, making incremental changes each time

Synonyms

• (to repeat): reiterate; see also Thesaurus:reiterate

Translations

Noun

iterate (plural iterates)

1. (mathematics) a function that iterates

   f²(x₀) is the second iterate of x₀ under f.

   • 2011, M. A. Kaashoek, T. T. West, Locally Compact Semi-Algebras (page 8)

     An important example of such a semigroup in infinite dimensional Hilbert space is the weak operator closed monothetic semigroup generated by a linear operator with equibounded iterates.

Derived terms

• reiterate
• iterative
• iterator

Adjective

iterate (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Said or done again; repeated.

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Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:repeated

Further reading

• iterate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• iterate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• iterate at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• ariette

Italian

Verb

iterate

1. second-person plural present indicative of iterare
2. second-person plural imperative of iterare
3. feminine plural of iterato

Latin

Verb

iter?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of iter?