Explore Recursion through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like rule or formula. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Recursion meaning
- The act of recurring.
- The act of defining an object (usually a function) in terms of that object itself.
- The invocation of a procedure from within itself.
Using Recursion
- The main meaning on this page is: The act of recurring. | The act of defining an object (usually a function) in terms of that object itself. | The invocation of a procedure from within itself.
- Useful related words include: rule, formula.
- In the example corpus, recursion often appears in combinations such as: of recursion, recursion pharmaceuticals, recursion is.
Context around Recursion
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 10 start, 9 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Recursion
- In this selection, "recursion" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 24.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, mutual, direct, tail, pharmaceuticals, emphasises and tail stand out and add context to how "recursion" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include shares of recursion pharmaceuticals in and anticipate that recursion pharmaceuticals inc. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "recursion" sits close to words such as abacha, acetate and adl, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with recursion
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Recursion Pharmaceuticals () was a new buy in the portfolio last week. (11 words)
Recursion Pharmaceuticals) – A promising tech company utilizing AI to fabricate and accelerate treatments. (13 words)
Recursion Pharmaceuticals): Recursion shares trade at half their 2023 high despite Nvidia’s commitment. (14 words)
The MSD-based algorithm uses the extra memory buffer as the output on the first level of recursion, but swaps the input and output on the next level of recursion, to avoid the overhead of copying the output result back to the input buffer. (44 words)
Kleene's definition of "general recursion" (known now as mu-recursion) was used by Church in his 1935 paper An Unsolvable Problem of Elementary Number Theory that proved the "decision problem" to be "undecidable" (i. (35 words)
Based on the fixed exchange ratio, Recursion shareholders will own approximately 74% and Exscientia shareholders will own approximately 26% of the combined company, in each case assuming no additional issuance by either company before closing. (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
As with direct recursion, tail call optimization is necessary if the recursion depth is large or unbounded, such as using mutual recursion for multitasking.
Recursion Pharmaceuticals): Recursion shares trade at half their 2023 high despite Nvidia’s commitment.
Additionally, no tail recursion ever occurs on a child node, so the tail recursion loop can only move from a child back to its successive ancestors.
Any mutual recursion between two procedures can be converted to direct recursion by inlining the code of one procedure into the other.
Kleene's definition of "general recursion" (known now as mu-recursion) was used by Church in his 1935 paper An Unsolvable Problem of Elementary Number Theory that proved the "decision problem" to be "undecidable" (i.
Recursion and fixed points main seeAlso Recursion is the definition of a function using the function itself.
The copy back step could be avoided if the recursion alternated between two functions so that the direction of the merge corresponds with the level of recursion.
The MSD-based algorithm uses the extra memory buffer as the output on the first level of recursion, but swaps the input and output on the next level of recursion, to avoid the overhead of copying the output result back to the input buffer.
This is simply a difference of emphasis, not a different notion: "indirect recursion" emphasises an individual function, while "mutual recursion" emphasises the set of functions, and does not single out an individual function.
Transfinite recursion Transfinite recursion is similar to transfinite induction; however, instead of proving that something holds for all ordinal numbers, we construct a sequence of objects, one for each ordinal.
Before Paris, there is a chance to see his latest paintings at the Morningside Gallery in Edinburgh in an exhibition called Recursion which represents a refinement of his previous work.
Recursion Pharmaceuticals () was a new buy in the portfolio last week.
Bank of New York Mellon Corp boosted its stake in Recursion Pharmaceuticals by 1.7% in the first quarter.
Based on the fixed exchange ratio, Recursion shareholders will own approximately 74% and Exscientia shareholders will own approximately 26% of the combined company, in each case assuming no additional issuance by either company before closing.
Benjamin F. Edwards & Company Inc. bought a new position in shares of Recursion Pharmaceuticals during the 1st quarter worth approximately $26,000.
Equities research analysts anticipate that Recursion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. will post -1.63 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.
Needham & Company LLC reaffirmed a “buy” rating and issued a $11.00 price objective on shares of Recursion Pharmaceuticals in a report on Wednesday, December 11th.
Needham & Company LLC reissued a “buy” rating and set a $11.00 price target on shares of Recursion Pharmaceuticals in a research report on Wednesday, November 20th.
On Tuesday, February 6th, Blake Borgeson sold 11,447 shares of Recursion Pharmaceuticals stock.
Recursion Pharmaceuticals) – A promising tech company utilizing AI to fabricate and accelerate treatments.
Common combinations with recursion
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- of recursion 18×
- recursion pharmaceuticals 11×
- recursion is 11×
- the recursion 7×
- tail recursion 6×
- recursion and 6×
- recursion theory 5×
- mutual recursion 4×
- transfinite recursion 4×
- direct recursion 3×