English Explanatory Dictionary

recursive

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj

drawing upon itself, referring back.
of an expression, each term of which is determined by applying a formula to preceding terms
of a program or function that calls itself
which can be computed by a theoretical model of a computer, in a finite amount of time
whose characteristic function is recursive (4)

Pronunciation

/ɹɪˈkɜː(ɹ)sɪv/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-recursive.wav

Word forms

recursive more recursive most recursive

Etymology

Learned borrowing from New Latin recursīvus. Equivalent to recurse + -ive.

Antonyms

non-recursive

Derived words

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

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