The act or an instance of receding or withdrawing. / (economics) A period of reduced economic activity / The ceremonial filing out of clergy and/or choir at the end of a church service.

plural of recession

(obsolete, rare, of time or place) Remote, distant.

(transitive) To make a recess in. / To place in a recess. / (transitive) To suspend (formal proceedings) temporarily.

(archaic) A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back. / The state of being withdrawn. / A place of retirement, retreat, secrecy, or seclusion. / An inset, hole, hollow space or opening.

simple past tense and past participle of recess

set back; located in a hole, space, or opening. / withdrawn; secluded / having a recess or nook

present participle of recess

Going back; receding. / (genetics) Able to be masked by a dominant allele or trait. / (by extension) Not dominant; whose effect is masked by stronger effects.

(genetics) A gene that is recessive.