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Recursive

//ɹɪˈkɜː(ɹ)sɪv// adj

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    drawing upon itself, referring back.

    "The recursive nature of stories which borrow from each other"

  2. 2
    of an expression, each term of which is determined by applying a formula to preceding terms not-comparable
  3. 3
    of a program or function that calls itself not-comparable
  4. 4
    which can be computed by a theoretical model of a computer, in a finite amount of time not-comparable
  5. 5
    whose characteristic function is recursive (4) not-comparable
Adjective
  1. 1
    of or relating to a recursion wordnet

Etymology

Learned borrowing from New Latin recursīvus. Equivalent to recurse + -ive.

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