different between recurse vs recourse

English

Etymology

Back-formation from recursion.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??(?)s

Verb

recurse (third-person singular simple present recurses, present participle recursing, simple past and past participle recursed)

1. (intransitive, computing) To execute a procedure recursively.

   The algorithm then recurses on the children of the current tree node.

Related terms

Translations

Anagrams

• recures, rescuer, securer

Latin

Participle

recurse

1. vocative masculine singular of recursus

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French recours, from Latin recursus, past participle of recurr?.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: r?kôs?, IPA^(key): /???k??s/
• (General American) enPR: r??kôrs, IPA^(key): /??i?k??s/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: rik?rs?, r??k?rs, IPA^(key): /???ko(?)?s/, /??i?ko(?)?s/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /???ko?s/, /??i?ko?s/
• Rhymes: -??(?)s

Noun

recourse (countable and uncountable, plural recourses)

1. The act of seeking assistance or advice.
   • 1678, Nathaniel Wanley, The Wonders of the Little World

     Thus dyed this great Peer in the thirty sixth year of his age compleat, and three days over, in a time of great recourse unto him, and dependence upon him

   • 1929, M. Barnard Eldershaw, A House Is Built, chapter VIII, section ii:

     Nor were the wool prospects much better. The pastoral industry, which had weathered the severe depression of the early forties by recourse to boiling down the sheep for their tallow, and was now firmly re-established as the staple industry of the colony, was threatened once more with eclipse.

2. (obsolete) A coursing back, or coursing again; renewed course; return; retreat; recurrence.
3. (obsolete) Access; admittance.

Derived terms

Related terms

• recur
• recursion
• recursive

Translations

Verb

recourse (third-person singular simple present recourses, present participle recoursing, simple past and past participle recoursed)

1. (obsolete) To return; to recur.
2. (obsolete) To have recourse; to resort.
   • (Can we find and add a quotation of Bishop Hacket to this entry?)

Synonyms

• (to recur): repeat; see also Thesaurus:repeat

Anagrams

• resource