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As described earlier, they are the tools used to access and iterate the values in the container class. To be specific, they are objects of the container class which are used to iterate through the container. Pointers are infact a type of iterators.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://iq.opengenus.org/commonly-used-utilities-in-standard-template-library-cpp/