Definition of recursion in English:
recursion
noun rɪˈkəːʃ(ə)nrəˈkərʒən
mass nounLinguistics Mathematics 1The repeated application of a recursive procedure or definition.
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- The choice should be a function of the background of the audience, and especially their understanding of some basic concepts like iteration and recursion.
- Over the past couple of years, there's been renewed controversy about the role of recursion in human language.
- Yet even this cannot evade the vicious circle of recursion, since it ‘is not only an advancing process but a retrograde one at the same time.’
- Another component is a more mathematical concept called recursion and the ability to imbed structures within structures.
- Its used in all sorts of things in calculus where recursion is necessary, like differential equations.
- 1.1count noun A recursive definition.
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- The above recursions are numerically stable and very fast.
- Hence, under strategy A, the recursions should be computed as follows.
- Because the central linear recursions are defined over the effectively infinite-dimensioned state space of history, importance sampling is used to approximate the underlying Markov chain.
- This algorithm is based on a recursion similar to that of the peeling algorithm.
- We can now use Table 1 to derive the following recursions for the allele frequencies.
Origin
1930s: from late Latin recursio(n-), from recurrere 'run back' (see recur).