iterable
6.3
Able to be used in a loop to handle each item
- adjective
- /ˈɪtərəbəl/
- Specialized
:
iterable
- While these "categories, conventions, and norms" (5) are "iterable" and must "break from themselves in order to install themselves" (12), such breaking does not eliminate the framing altogether or offer some sort of unmediated access to a "material reality" (29).
Examples
-
Once more, the Welsh past, Peacock implies, is not dead, but rather iterable and endlessly re-simulating itself.
Academic text (2016) -
In Python, a list is an iterable that allows you to loop over its elements easily.
-
You can use a for loop to process each item in the iterable without needing to know its length.
-
The function requires an iterable input to generate its output based on each element.
Surface Forms
iterable positive
Morphology
Etymology
Iterable comes from the Latin root iter- and the verb iterare, which mean 'to do again', plus the ending -able meaning 'can be'. So an iterable is something 'that can be done again' over its items, which fits programming use where you loop through the same data one item at a time.
