RECURSIVE

recursive

Adjective

  1. drawing upon itself, referring back.
    The recursive nature of stories which borrow from each other
  2. of an expression, each term of which is determined by applying a formula to preceding terms
  3. of a program or function that calls itself
  4. which can be computed by a theoretical model of a computer, in a finite amount of time
  5. whose characteristic function is recursive (4)


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