recursiveness
- noun
- /rɪˈkɜːrsɪvnəs/
- Specialized
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recursividad
- The observer arises in the recursiveness of languaging, and in crossing linguistic domains we can become observer-translators, fleetingly aware, out of the corner of the eye, on the razor's edge, of some of our former blind spots.
Examples
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The process is characterized by its recursiveness, allowing the same steps to be repeated multiple times.
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The recursiveness of such alleged explanations should therefore serve for us as the first warning: "someone is generating the future jobs for himself."
Blog text (7) -
Through this ongoing recursiveness, every world brought forth necessarily hides its origins.
Academic text (2006) -
To date, the causal order proposed in the cross-national studies of fertility, family planning, and development, and the assumption of recursiveness in these models, have not been closely examined.
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In programming, recursiveness enables functions to call themselves to solve complex problems efficiently.
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The recursiveness found in nature, such as fractals, shows how patterns can repeat at different scales.
Synonyms
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A way to solve a problem by repeating a step on a smaller copy of it
How Recursive
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word recursiveness comes from the parts re- 'again' and currere 'to run', so it originally meant 'to run again'. A helpful image is a runner who goes round the track again and again; that's why recursiveness describes a process or structure that repeats or refers to itself, like a function that calls itself.