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" Suffering produces a recursion to the tribe, to one's own kind. When a lot of people suffer, tribes lose their head."
Giles Foden

Meaning of "recursion" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD RECURSION

From Latin recursio, from recurrererecur.
Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF RECURSION

rɪˈkɜːʃən


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF RECURSION

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Recursion is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES RECURSION MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Recursion

Recursion is the process of repeating items in a self-similar way. For instance, when the surfaces of two mirrors are exactly parallel with each other the nested images that occur are a form of infinite recursion. The term has a variety of meanings specific to a variety of disciplines ranging from linguistics to logic. The most common application of recursion is in mathematics and computer science, in which it refers to a method of defining functions in which the function being defined is applied within its own definition. Specifically this defines an infinite number of instances, using a finite expression that for some instances may refer to other instances, but in such a way that no loop or infinite chain of references can occur. The term is also used more generally to describe a process of repeating objects in a self-similar way.

Definition of recursion in the English dictionary

The definition of recursion in the dictionary is the act or process of returning or running back. Other definition of recursion is the application of a function to its own values to generate an infinite sequence of values. The recursion formula or clause of a definition specifies the progression from one term to the next, as given the base clause f = 0, f = f + 3 specifies the successive terms of the sequence f = 3 n.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH RECURSION

aspersion · assertion · aversion · coercion · conversion · decursion · discursion · dispersion · diversion · excursion · exertion · immersion · incursion · insertion · inversion · overexertion · Persian · seroconversion · subversion · version

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE RECURSION

recurred · recurrence · recurrency · recurrent · recurrent expenditure · recurrent fever · recurrently · recurring · recurring decimal · recurringly · recursion clause · recursion formula · recursive · recursive function · recursive subroutine · recursively · recursiveness · recurvate · recurve · recurvirostral

WORDS THAT END LIKE RECURSION

American Standard Version · barn conversion · bioconversion · commission · cover version · emersion · energy conversion · eversion · extraversion · extroversion · interconversion · King James Version · reconversion · reversion · Revised Standard Version · Revised Version · submersion · the Authorized Version · the Dispersion · the King James Version · torsion

Synonyms and antonyms of recursion in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «recursion» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF RECURSION

Find out the translation of recursion to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of recursion from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «recursion» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

递归
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

recursividad
570 millions of speakers
en

English

recursion
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

प्रत्यावर्तन
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

العودية
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

рекурсия
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

recursão
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

পুনরাবৃত্তির
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

récursivité
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Rekursi
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Rekursion
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

再帰
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

재귀
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Rekursor
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

đệ quy
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

மறுநிகழ்வு
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

पुनरावृत्ती
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

yineleme
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

ricorsione
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

rekurencja
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

рекурсія
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

recursivitate
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αναδρομή
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

rekursie
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

rekursion
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

rekursjon
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of recursion

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «RECURSION»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of recursion
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about recursion

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QUOTES WITH «RECURSION»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word recursion.
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Giles Foden
Suffering produces a recursion to the tribe, to one's own kind. When a lot of people suffer, tribes lose their head.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «RECURSION»

Discover the use of recursion in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to recursion and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Recursion
Herb returns to the remote planet he has been furtively trying to build a city on, to find it a swarming nightmare of self-replicating machinery.
Tony Ballantyne, 2011
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Logic, Sets, and Recursion
The new Second Edition incorporates a wealth of exercise sets, allowing students to test themselves and review important topics discussed throughout the text."--BOOK JACKET.
Robert L. Causey, 2006
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Classical Recursion Theory: The Theory of Functions and Sets ...
1988 marked the first centenary of Recursion Theory, since Dedekind's 1888 paper on the nature of number. Now available in paperback, this book is both a comprehensive reference for the subject and a textbook starting from first principles.
P. Odifreddi, 1992
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Recursion and Human Language
In this volume, the issue of recursion is tackled from a variety of angles.
Harry van der Hulst, 2010
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Recursion
Government conspiracy is running rampant, and the one-time mecca of public health and welfare, the CDC, has become a pawn in a game of biological terror.
James Cavell, 2000
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Computability Theory: An Introduction to Recursion Theory
The text includes both the standard material for a first course in computability and more advanced looks at degree structures, forcing, priority methods, and determinacy.
Herbert B. Enderton, 2010
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Interfaces + Recursion = Language?: Chomsky's Minimalism and ...
With contributions by Noam Chomsky and other experts, this volume evaluates the minimalists' proposal against evidence from syntax and semantics by asking questions like the following: What kind of recursive structures can the core ...
Uli Sauerland, Hans-Martin Gärtner, 2007
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Recursion Via Pascal
This book is devoted to recursion in programming, the technique by which the solution to a problem is expressed partly in terms of the solution to a simpler version of the same problem.
Jeffrey Soden Rohl, 1984
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Recursion Theory, Its Generalisations and Applications
This book is a collection of advanced research/survey papers by eminent research workers in the Recursion theory.
F. R. Drake, S. S. Wainer, 1980
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Recursion Theory and Computational Complexity: Lectures ...
S. Homer: Admissible recursion theory.- B.E. Jacobs: Computational complexity and recursion theory.- D. Normann: A survey of set recursion.- G.E. Sacks: Priority arguments in Higgler recursion.
G. Lolli, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «RECURSION»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term recursion is used in the context of the following news items.
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Suzuki patents Recursion Concept's turbocharger design; is this the …
At the 2013 Tokyo Motor Show, Suzuki unveiled the Recursion, a futuristic concept powered by a 588cc parallel-twin engine with an intercooler turbo. At that ... «Motoroids, Mar 15»
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Recursion Pharmaceuticals Announces Funding Support for Ataxia …
Recursion today announced a grant from the AT-Children's Project to advance it's innovative drug discovery work towards identifying novel treatments for ... «PR.com, Mar 15»
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CORRECTING and REPLACING Recursion Pharmaceuticals Wins …
SALT LAKE CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--First paragraph, first sentence of release dated February 25, 2015, should read: Recursion Pharmaceuticals, ... «Business Wire, Feb 15»
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Utah startup offers new hope for treating orphan diseases
A University of Utah startup company called Recursion aims to have an impact on orphan diseases in a very different way. In a 10-foot-by14-foot room and some ... «KSL.com, Feb 15»
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Listening Party: Yesterday's Saints, 'Recursion'
Vipers doesn't come out until next week, but to satiate your hellish hunger, we have a new song from the album, “Recursion.” Thick guitar riffs and low, coarse ... «DCist.com, Jan 15»
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Sci-fi Short ReCURSION Is About a Terrible Best Man Using Time …
ReCURSION went on the festival circuit for much of 2014 and won tons of different accolades, but for the past week you've been able to glimpse this short film for ... «Gizmodo, Jan 15»
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Suzuki Recursion production version - Rendering
The Suzuki Recursion motorcycle is slated to be launched with a 588 cc turbocharged parallel twin that would be good to pump out 100 bhp of power and 100 ... «Indian Autos Blog, Jan 15»
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Turbocharged Suzuki Recursion to Enter Production? Japanese …
Believe it or not, it looks like the chances to see another forced-intake production motorcycle have just increased. We're speaking about Suzuki's Recursion ... «autoevolution, Jan 15»
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Recursion Pharmaceuticals Announces Robert Lollini as the …
SALT LAKE CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Recursion Pharmaceuticals, a biotech start-up in Salt Lake City, today announced the appointment of Robert Lollini, MBA ... «Business Wire, Nov 14»
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To Infinity… and Beyond!
It's called recursion, and children begin to grasp it around age 9, according to a fascinating study published in the October issue of Cognition. What's more, a ... «National Geographic, Aug 14»
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