noun Technical meaning of iterator (programming) An object or routine for accessing items from a list, array or stream one at a time. By extension, the term can be used for an object or routine for accesing items from any data structure that can be viewed as a list. For example, a traverser is an iterator for tree-shaped data structures. 1
noun iterator One which iterates. 1
noun iterator (computing) A method capable of performing the same action on every item in a collection. 0
