Meaning

• A break, pause or vacation.

  "Spring recess offers a good chance to travel."

• An inset, hole, space or opening.

  "Put a generous recess behind the handle for finger space."

• A time of play during the school day, usually on a playground; break, playtime.

  "Students who do not listen in class will not play outside during recess."

• A decree of the imperial diet of the old German empire.

• A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat.

  "the recess of the tides"

• The state of being withdrawn; seclusion; privacy.

• A place of retirement, retreat, secrecy, or seclusion.

• A secret or abstruse part.

  "the difficulties and recesses of science"

• A sinus.

Meaning

• To inset into something, or to recede.

  "Recess the screw so it does not stick out."

• To take or declare a break.

  "Class will recess for 20 minutes."

• To appoint, with a recess appointment.

• To make a recess in.

  "to recess a wall"

Meaning

• Remote, distant (in time or place).