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Old Sun Dec 22, 2002, 09:42pm
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Originally posted by Ref Daddy
iterate

\It"er*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Iterated; p. pr. & vb. n. Iterating.] To utter or do a second time or many times; to repeat; as, to iterate advice.
My dictionary has a similar definition, but the way I've seen iterate used it sounded more like a kind of cycling process rather than an exact repetition. To reiterate, then, would be to begin the cycling process again.
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