Definitions
Wiktionary
- adj. drawing upon itself, referring back.
- adj. of an expression, each term of which is determined by applying a formula to preceding terms
- adj. of a program or function that calls itself
- adj. which can be computed by a theoretical model of a computer, in a finite amount of time
- adj. whose characteristic function is recursive (4)
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of or relating to a recursion
Examples
“What makes it recursive is when we shift back to previous steps such as research or editing.”
“When my JSON endpoint returns a list of strings to be displayed in turn maybe the current top 10 blog posts, I call a recursive display function that does the simple task of showing each in turn.”
“I’m fairly sure of this, but wait, first the eggs come from chickens, but those also came from eggs …. can’t think, stuck in recursive loop ….”
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“Through goodwill, I created a long series of what you might call recursive loops of gullibility that brought me an infinite source of investors. ”
“In the 1980s in my C++ computer class at University, I learned a powerful coding technique called recursive algorithms.”
“Also, for each of these you will find a "driver" class in the default package which simply calls the recursive and iterative implementations and then displays the measurements returned by the SimpleMeasurement interface that each such implementation will have to offer.”
“DestroyMenu is recursive, that is, it will destroy the menu and all its submenus.”
“The XSLT file in this project can help you understand calling recursive templates, and also gives an idea about how to use in-built functions.”
“A statistical method called recursive partitioning was then used to divide treatment groups into "high" or "low" exposure and to determine the relationship between length of drug exposure and long-term outcomes.”
“It is sometimes also referred to as the recursive model.”
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common UA vocab. in US
Interesting, there is a traditional vocabulary of an Ukrainian, that differs from vocabulary of average American. It would be nice to explore it.
jackdaw, incongruous, cassock, vivid, magpie, humdrum, amongst, wonder, wandering, wheedling, wheedle, osseous and 368 more...
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Sound Sex
taciturn, deflower, recursive, parapraxis, comitative, atelic, awkward, eccentric, libidinous, astereognosis, aloof, moonglade and 44 more...
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Mathematics in real life
else if, else, iff, delta, iteration, recursion, recursive, integral, differential, triangulate, cashier can't mak..., days until payday and 8 more...
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Programming Jargon
Stuff that comes up all the time at work.
continuation, data structure, node, closure, compiler, funarg problem, garbage collection, pointer, anonymous function, block, currying, first-class function and 63 more...
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