| 单词 | recursive |
| 释义 | recursive (once / 184677 pages) adj Something that is recursive has to do with a procedure or rule that is repeated. Think of something that "reoccurs" over and over again, like those fun house mirrors that are angled to present an infinite number of images. The adjective recursive comes from the Latin recurrere. The idea of something being recursive was first used in mathematics in 1934, its most famous application being in the recursive geometry of fractals, images that, when broken down, are created by exact copies of the whole, a continuing process. Another example of a recursive process is the Droste effect, in which a picture contains an exact copy of the picture, which contains a smaller copy, and so on. Dizzy yet? WORD FAMILYrecursive: recursively USAGE EXAMPLESThe Apple Way can never stop iterating or, in a recursive loop, it will have to smash itself. The Guardian(Sep 18, 2016) “The Complete Essays” comprises 68 texts, most of them brief, in which he presents an allusive, fragmented and recursive account of his photographic philosophy. New York Times(Jun 28, 2016) Small, red, and 96 pages—if pages were ounces, something like a baby—it elliptically, recursively interrogates the absence of these subjects from literature. Slate(May 04, 2016) adj of or relating to a recursion Syn algorithmic of or relating to or having the characteristics of an algorithm |
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