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(mathematics) an expression such that each term is generated by repeating a particular mathematical operation
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recursion
Word definitions for recursion in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Recursion occurs when a thing is defined in terms of itself or of its type. Recursion is used in a variety of disciplines ranging from linguistics to logic . The most common application of recursion is in mathematics and computer science , where a function ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. (mathematics) an expression such that each term is generated by repeating a particular mathematical operation
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of recurring. 2 (context mathematics English) The act of defining an object (usually a function) in terms of that object itself. 3 (context computing English) The calling of a function from within that same function.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, from Latin recursionem (nominative recursio ) "a running backward, return," noun of action from past participle stem of recurrere "run back" (see recur ).
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Recursion \Re*cur"sion\ (-sh?n), n. [L. recursio. See Recur .] The act of recurring; return. [Obs.] --Boyle. (Math.) The calculation of a mathematical expression (or a quantity) by repeating an operation on another expression which was derived by application ...
Usage examples of recursion.
Lovering laughs off recursion and takes up another tack: the key is to find some formal symmetry folded in this four-base chaos.
You use recursion for certain data-sorting algorithms and things like that.
The coastline was an indefinite recursion of islands and straits and inlets.
I recognize as well the patterns he has linked through a partial recursion that has the lean elegance of most of his solutions.
Crowding under slowworms of lit glass spelling names and services, simple animationsa red-mouthed lady drawn with the light, replaced stutteringly with another who had raised her glass, and back again in autistic illuminant recursion.
You use recursion for certain data-sorting algorithms and things like that.
Looking outward, she no longer saw, but continued imagining a vista of everchanging patterns, stretching into infinite recursion across the cloud-flecked sky.
Another obvious thing for a gene to do is to influence the depth of the recursion, the number of successive branchings.
Personally, I always thought there was a clue from computer programming, in a procedure called recursion.
Being able to glance out into this bewildering complexity of infinite recursion and say things like, `Oh, hi Ed!
Being able to glance out into this bewildering complexity of infinite recursion and say things like, 'Oh, hi Ed!