recursion
recursion · recursions
рекурсия
Rekursion
The act of recurringThe act of recurring.
/ɹɪˈkɜː(ɹ)ʒən/
» Apparently, he had never heard of recursion.
Anscheinend hatte er noch nie von Rekursion gehört. — Manfredo
xrchz · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FRMeaning
3 senses(countable, uncountable)The act of recurring.
(countable, uncountable)The act of defining an object (usually a function) in terms of that object itself.
n! = n × (n − 1)! (for n > 0) or 1 (for n = 0) defines the factorial function using recursion.
Rekursion
реку́рсияrekúrsija
(countable, uncountable)The invocation of a procedure from within itself.
This function uses recursion to compute factorials.
Rekursion
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- (mathematics) an expression such that each term is generated by repeating a particular mathematical operation; also, the repeated application or execution of a pattern, function or definition; an expression that is recursive
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Origin
Borrowed from Latin recursiō (“the act of running back or again, return”), from recurrō (“Borrowed from Latin recursiō (“the act of running back or again, return”), from recurrō (“run back; return”), from re- (“back, again”) + currō (“run”).
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plural: recursions| Singular | recursion |
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