recursive

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• /ɹɪˈkɜː(ɹ)sɪv/
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Learned borrowing from New Latin recursīvus. Equivalent to recurse + -ive.

47 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Dutch: recursief — drawing upon itself
• Finnish: itseään toistava — drawing upon itself
• French: récursif — drawing upon itself
• German: rekursiv — drawing upon itself
• Greek: επαναλαμβανόμενος (epanalamvanómenos) — drawing upon itself
• Greek: επανερχόμενος (epanerchómenos) — drawing upon itself
• Greek: αναδρομικός (anadromikós) — drawing upon itself
• Portuguese: recursivo — drawing upon itself
• Serbo-Croatian: рекурзиван — drawing upon itself
• Spanish: recursivo — drawing upon itself
• Ukrainian: рекурси́вний (rekursývnyj) — drawing upon itself
• Czech: rekurzivní — mathematics: of an expression, in which each term is determined by applying a formula to preceding terms
• Dutch: recursief — mathematics: of an expression, in which each term is determined by applying a formula to preceding terms
• Finnish: rekursiivinen — mathematics: of an expression, in which each term is determined by applying a formula to preceding terms
• French: récursif — mathematics: of an expression, in which each term is determined by applying a formula to preceding terms
• German: rekursiv — mathematics: of an expression, in which each term is determined by applying a formula to preceding terms
• Greek: αναδρομικός (anadromikós) — mathematics: of an expression, in which each term is determined by applying a formula to preceding terms
• Polish: rekurencyjny — mathematics: of an expression, in which each term is determined by applying a formula to preceding terms
• Portuguese: recursivo — mathematics: of an expression, in which each term is determined by applying a formula to preceding terms
• Spanish: iterativo — mathematics: of an expression, in which each term is determined by applying a formula to preceding terms
• Spanish: recurrente — mathematics: of an expression, in which each term is determined by applying a formula to preceding terms
• Chinese Cantonese: 遞迴 /递回 (dai6 wui4) — computing: of a program or function that calls itself
• Chinese Mandarin: 遞歸 /递归 (dìguī) — computing: of a program or function that calls itself
• Min Nan Chinese: 遞迴 /递回 — computing: of a program or function that calls itself
• Czech: rekurzivní — computing: of a program or function that calls itself
• Dutch: recursief — computing: of a program or function that calls itself
• Finnish: rekursiivinen — computing: of a program or function that calls itself
• French: récursif — computing: of a program or function that calls itself
• German: rekursiv — computing: of a program or function that calls itself
• Greek: αναδρομικός (anadromikós) — computing: of a program or function that calls itself
• Hungarian: rekurzív — computing: of a program or function that calls itself
• Polish: rekurencyjny — computing: of a program or function that calls itself
• Portuguese: recursivo — computing: of a program or function that calls itself
• Romanian: recursiv — computing: of a program or function that calls itself
• Spanish: recursivo — computing: of a program or function that calls itself
• Dutch: recursief — computing: of a function which can be computed in a finite amount of time
• Finnish: rekursiivinen — computing: of a function which can be computed in a finite amount of time
• German: rekursiv — computing: of a function which can be computed in a finite amount of time
• Greek: αναδρομικός (anadromikós) — computing: of a function which can be computed in a finite amount of time
• Persian: بازگشتی — computing: of a function which can be computed in a finite amount of time
• Portuguese: recursivo — computing: of a function which can be computed in a finite amount of time
• Dutch: recursief — computing: of a set whose characteristic function is recursive
• Finnish: rekursiivinen — computing: of a set whose characteristic function is recursive
• French: récursif — computing: of a set whose characteristic function is recursive
• German: rekursiv — computing: of a set whose characteristic function is recursive
• Greek: αναδρομικός (anadromikós) — computing: of a set whose characteristic function is recursive
• Serbo-Croatian: rekurzivan — computing: of a set whose characteristic function is recursive