different between itself vs recursive

English

Etymology

From it +? -self.

Pronunciation

• (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?t?s?lf/
• Rhymes: -?lf

Pronoun

itself (the third person singular, neuter, personal pronoun, the reflexive form of it, masculine himself, feminine herself, plural themselves)

1. (reflexive) it; A thing as the object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject

   The door closed by itself

2. (emphatic) it; used to intensify the subject, especially to emphasize that it is the only participant in the predicate

   The door itself is quite heavy.

3. (emphatic, archaic) it; used to refer back to an earlier subject

Synonyms

• itsself (obsolete)

Derived terms

• in-itselfness
• thing-in-itself

Translations

See also

Anagrams

• filets, fistle, fliest, flites, stifle

English

Etymology

Taken from the stem of Latin recursus. Equivalent to recurs +? -ive

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???k??(?)s?v/

Adjective

recursive (comparative more recursive, superlative most recursive)

1. drawing upon itself, referring back.

   The recursive nature of stories which borrow from each other

2. (mathematics, not comparable) of an expression, each term of which is determined by applying a formula to preceding terms
3. (computing, not comparable) of a program or function that calls itself
4. (computing theory, not comparable, of a function) which can be computed by a theoretical model of a computer, in a finite amount of time
5. (computing theory, not comparable, of a set) whose characteristic function is recursive (4)

Antonyms

• non-recursive

Hypernyms

• (of a set, whose characteristic function is recursive): recursively enumerable

Hyponyms

• (of a function): primitive recursive, tail recursive

Derived terms

• co-recursive
• recursive acronym
• recursive conundrum
• recursively
• recursiveness

Related terms

Translations

See also

• recursive on Wikipedia.Wikipedia