recursive

/ri-kur-siv/US // rɪˈkɜr sɪv //

递归,递归的,循序渐进,递归式

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective

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- : pertaining to or using a rule or procedure that can be applied repeatedly.
- : Mathematics, Computers. pertaining to or using the mathematical process of recursion: a recursive function; a recursive procedure.

adj.returning back

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To do that, you need what’s called a recursive procedure—something that allows you to reuse and build things up in larger and larger ways.
It’s just that he thinks the hierarchal structure is flat, and therefore Pirahã doesn’t make use of this massive recursive device.
The way that Dan read the Hauser-Chomsky-Fitch paper is language is recursive.
Study participants were trained to arrange two sets of symbols in recursive patterns.
One of the two animals ended up, on average, more likely to form novel recursive sequences than about three-quarters of the preschoolers and roughly half of the Bolivian villagers.
Since then, a black miasma of recursive vengeance has descended upon Iraq.