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recursively

recursively adverb: in a recursive way or manner.

Adverb

recursively (not comparable)

  1. In a recursive way or manner.
  2. Using recursion.
    • After recursively sorting the two subsets, the situation is (11,28) 35 (45,50,62) and an append of the three pieces gives the final result.1997, Jeffrey H. Kingston, Algorithms and Data Structures, →ISBN
    • In the same computation, the computer may be decomposed repeatedly and the partitioning may vary from one split to the other. The submachines can further recursively decompose […]1999, Martin Beran, “Decomposable Bulk Synchronous Parallel Computers”, in SOFSEM '99: Theory and Practice of Informatics, →ISBN, page 351

Origin of recursively

From recursive + -ly.

Words formed from recursively

Questions about recursively

What does recursively mean?
Recursively means in a recursive way or manner.
What part of speech is recursively?
Recursively is an adverb.

Words near recursively in the dictionary

  1. recursive function
  2. recursive functions
  3. recursive neural network
  4. recursive neural networks
  5. recursive self-improvement
  6. recursively
  7. recursively enumerable
  8. recursiveness
  9. recursivenesses
  10. recursivities
  11. recursivity

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