recursively

English

Etymology

From recursive +‎ -ly.

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Adverb

recursively (not comparable)

  1. In a recursive way or manner. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
  2. (computing) Using recursion.
    • 1997, Jeffrey H. Kingston, Algorithms and Data Structures, →ISBN:
      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.
    • 1999, Martin Beran, “Decomposable Bulk Synchronous Parallel Computers”, in SOFSEM '99: Theory and Practice of Informatics[1], →ISBN, page 351:
      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 []

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