recursively

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To repeat a process that uses its own result, often in maths or computers

adverb
/rɪˈkɜr.sɪv.li/

Specialized

: recursivamente

The function calls itself recursively to solve the problem step by step.
apply our algorithm recursively
recursively defined as follows
stored recursively

And then you have smaller Mandelbrot sets recursively in this set.

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Examples

So the first step is to recursively sort that list.
OK, so first I make sure that the thing I'm inserting recursively into the structure is not the minimum, OK.
OK, so it's almost as if I want to recursively generate this right here.
We do a couple other little things with you and I'm going to do them recursively just for for practice.
And what I'm going to say is recursively layout the pieces.
The components, through their interaction, generate recursively the same network of processes that produced them.

Academic text (1991)
Oh, and I wrote it in 10 or 15 minutes, recursively in Python, and believe it to be error-free.

Blog text (20)
Finally, the matrix A22 is recursively factored.

Academic text (2000)
Thus, for a given dataset, each observation was recursively left out, and a model was trained on the remainders using bootstrap.

Academic text (2016)
Unreferencing a container causes the kernel to recursively unreference the entire subtree of objects rooted at that container.

Academic text (2011)

Surface Forms

recursively positive

Morphology

recursively = recursive (semi-transparent) = recur + sive + ly

The adverb is formed regularly from the adjective 'recursive' with '-ly'.

Etymology

The word recursively comes from the prefix re- meaning 'again' and a root meaning 'to run', the same idea you see in the words run and course. So to do something recursively is to repeat a process that 'runs' over smaller versions of the same problem, like a picture that contains a smaller copy of itself.