recursion

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The act of recurring.

   “The inhabitants predicate the recursion of these storms by numerous other signs, and are prompt to take every precaution to avoid their effects.”

2. isim The act of defining an object (usually a function) in terms of that object itself.

   “n! = n × (n − 1)! (for n > 0) or 1 (for n = 0) defines the factorial function using recursion.”

3. isim The invocation of a procedure from within itself.

   “This function uses recursion to compute factorials.”