Associations to the word «Recursion»
Noun
- Cache
- Continuation
- Operator
- Graph
- Psychologist
- Mathematics
- Calculation
- Mathematic
- Vertex
- Mathematician
- Procedure
- Relation
- Query
- Array
- Numbering
- Depth
- Newton
- Processing
- Input
- Filter
- Numbers
- Language
- Divide
- Formulation
- Clause
- Forward
- Computer
- Partition
- Linguistics
- Solution
- Transformation
- Argument
- Value
- Vector
- Notion
- Handling
- Constraint
- Counting
- Sentence
- Call
- Closure
- Method
- Data
- Mu
- Structure
- Transform
- Context
- Evaluation
- Rule
- Output
- Step
- Sum
Adjective
Verb
Wiktionary
RECURSION, noun. The act of recurring.
RECURSION, noun. (mathematics) The act of defining an object (usually a function) in terms of that object itself.
RECURSION, noun. (computing) The calling of a function from within that same function.
RECURSION THEORY, noun. (logic) A branch of mathematical logic studying computable functions and Turing degrees, concerned with questions such as "What does it mean for a function from the natural numbers to themselves to be computable?" and "Can noncomputable functions be classified into a hierarchy based on their level of noncomputability?".
Dictionary definition
RECURSION, noun. (mathematics) an expression such that each term is generated by repeating a particular mathematical operation.
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