Adjective

(en adjective)

(archaic) Timid, fearful, overly cautious.

Characterized by very precise, conscientious attention to details.

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, passage=The meticulous care with which the operation in Sicily was planned has paid dividends. Our casualties in men, in ships and materiel have been low—in fact, far below our estimate.}}

Adjective

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drawing upon itself, referring back.

The recursive nature of stories which borrow from each other

(mathematics, not comparable) of an expression, each term of which is determined by applying a formula to preceding terms

(computing, not comparable) of a program or function that calls itself

(computing theory, not comparable, of a function) which can be computed by a theoretical model of a computer, in a finite amount of time

(computing theory, not comparable, of a set) whose characteristic function is recursive (4)