OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 8248

recursion

/ɹɪˈkɜː(ɹ)ʒən/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
recursión
The act of recurring.
The inhabitants predicate the recursion of these storms by numerous other signs, and are prompt to take every precaution to avoid their effects.
recurrencia
The act of defining an object (usually a function) in terms of that object itself.
However, we have still not achieved our goal of devising a finite set of rules which will generate an infinite set of sentence structures. In order to achieve this goal, we need to…
n! = n × (n − 1)! (for n > 0) or 1 (for n = 0) defines the factorial function using recursion.
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