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Iterator

Meaning in software engineering, with examples

nounCommon term

In software engineering, iterator means: An object or protocol that provides values from a sequence one at a time while tracking progress through that sequence.

In Turkish: yineleyici

How it is used

Used in collection APIs, lazy processing and stream consumption. Iterators may be exhausted, and not every iterator can restart or move backward.

Example sentences

  1. The iterator reads the next record without loading the whole file.

  2. Create a fresh iterator before traversing the collection again.

Common collocations

  • create an iterator
  • exhaust an iterator
  • iterator protocol
  • iterateTo go through the items of a collection one by one, or more generally to repeat a process and improve the result each time.
  • data structureA way of organizing data in memory, such as an array, list, tree or hash map, so that certain operations are fast and simple.
  • collectionIn a document database such as MongoDB, a group of documents stored together, similar to a table in a relational database.

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