recursion

(redirected from Recursivity)
Also found in: Dictionary, Encyclopedia.
Graphic Thesaurus  🔍
Display ON
Animation ON
Legend
Synonym
Antonym
Related
  • noun

Words related to recursion

(mathematics) an expression such that each term is generated by repeating a particular mathematical operation

Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection. © 2003-2012 Princeton University, Farlex Inc.
References in periodicals archive ?
Carruthers, The Recursivity of Law: Global Norm Ma\ing and National Lawmaking in the Globalization of Corporate Insolvency Regimes, 112 Am.
The one-year delay avoided the recursivity problem that would have existed under a tax-exclusive current-payment income tax.
Scoping Recursivity. A Comment on Franklin and Napier.
Rhetoric of recursivity, iteration, and oscillation aside, Piper, Long and So, and Cordell are invested in Willard McCarty's sense of modelling as described in Humanities Computing (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005): "an attempt to capture the dynamic, experiential aspects of a phenomenon rather than to freeze it into an ahistorical abstraction" (23).
The iterative comparison provides lower and upper bounds for the extremes a' and b' for which (1.4)-(1.6) has a non-trivial solution, bounds which converge to the values of these extremes a' and b' as the recursivity index grows.
This description of TLO theory characterizes it as an outgrowth of analytical work that has delved into what it has called "recursivity of law" (Halliday and Carruthers 2009).
In a chapter of her book on Romantic Imagination and Astronomy, "Rossetti: Reconciliation and Recursivity," (Palgrave, pp.
In being against empathy as we know it today, yet through that embodying Lee's conception of empathy instead, the very problem Common Place performs is its imaginative recursivity: it cannot get beyond the self of the poet, and the poet's desire is violating, as Halpern acknowledges.