Iteration
Iteration noun - (computer science) a single execution of a set of instructions that are to be repeated.
Usage example: the solution took hundreds of iterations
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In the first game of the BlazBlue series, it's revealed that all of the multiple endings are canon due to a hundred-year time loop, with each "ending" being one iteration of the loop.
Source: "Groundhog Day" Loop -
And then, on the next iteration of the loop, Makoto expects the same thing, but it turns out to be foie gras instead.
Source: Visual Novel / Never7 - It's revealed at the end of The Dark Tower series that the whole series was just one iteration of a loop that is implied to have been looping for countless iterations.
Source: Groundhog Peggy Sue
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