🇮🇳Hindi Source WordCode: HI

पुरावर्तन

Pronunciation / Transliteration: purāvartan

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Recursion/rɪˈkɜːr.ʒən/
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🇮🇳 Example Sentence in Hindi:

"कंप्यूटर विज्ञान में पुनरावर्तन एक महत्वपूर्ण अवधारणा है।"

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The repeated application of a recursive procedure or definition, where a function calls itself directly or indirectly.

    "The algorithm uses recursion to traverse the complex directory tree."
  2. 2

    In linguistics, the capacity of language to embed clauses within clauses of the same type indefinitely.

    "The phrase 'the cat that chased the rat that ate the cheese' demonstrates syntactic recursion."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin 'recursio', meaning a running back or return, formed from 're-' (back) and 'currere' (to run). The term entered modern academic vocabulary through mathematics and logic, eventually becoming a foundational concept in computer science and linguistics during the mid-20th century.

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