non-recursive

Definitions

Not involving or capable of being defined by a process that refers back to itself.

Characterized by a structure or algorithm that does not call itself during execution.

Examples

The algorithm was redesigned to use a non-recursive approach to prevent stack overflow errors.

Unlike the previous version, this non-recursive function processes the data using a simple loop.

Synonyms

iterative linear non-repeating finite straightforward

Antonyms

recursive self-referential nested circular iterative-looping