recursive
adjEtymology
Learned borrowing from New Latin recursīvus. Equivalent to recurse + -ive.
- learned borrowing from recursīvus
Definitions
drawing upon itself, referring back.
- The recursive nature of stories which borrow from each other
of an expression, each term of which is determined by applying a formula to preceding…
of an expression, each term of which is determined by applying a formula to preceding terms
of a program or function that calls itself
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which can be computed by a theoretical model of a computer, in a finite amount of time
whose characteristic function is recursive (4)
The neighborhood
- antonymnon-recursive
Derived
co-recursive, filtered-popping recursive transition network, left-recursive, nonrecursive, recursion, recursive acronym, recursive compound word, recursive conundrum, recursive definition, recursive descent, recursive function, recursively, recursiveness, recursive neural network, recursivity, subrecursive, superrecursive, transrecursive
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for recursive. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
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