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Recurse vs Recure - What's the difference?

recurse | recure |

As verbs the difference between recurse and recure

is that recurse is (computing) to execute a procedure recursively while recure is (obsolete) to cure, heal.

As a noun recure is

(obsolete) cure; remedy; recovery.

recurse

English

Verb

(recurs)
  • (computing) To execute a procedure recursively.
    • The algorithm then recurses on the children of the current tree node.

    Related terms

    (terms related to recurse) * recur * recurrent * recurrence * recursion * recursive * recursivity

    Anagrams

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    recure

    English

    Verb

    (recur)
  • (obsolete) To cure, heal.
  • * Lydgate
    • No medicine might avail his sickness to recure .
  • (obsolete) To restore (something) to a good condition.
  • *1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.v:
  • *:Phoebus pure / In westerne waues his wearie wagon did recure .
  • (obsolete) To recover, regain (something that had been lost).
  • *1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.5:
  • *:By this he had sweet life recur'd agayne [...].
  • To arrive at; to reach; to attain.
    • (Lydgate)

    Noun

    (-)
  • (obsolete) cure; remedy; recovery
  • * Fairfax
    • But whom he hite, without recure he dies.