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recursive
  • (adjective)
    1. Drawing upon itself.
      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
      Example: the factorial function -
      f(0) = 1
      f(n) = n x f(n-1) for any natural number where n > 0
    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)