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recursive
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Definitions ofrecursive
1adjective
- Drawing upon itself, referring back.
Example: "The recursive nature of stories which borrow from each other"
- Of an expression, each term of which is determined by applying a formula to preceding terms
- Of a program or function that calls itself
- (of a function) which can be computed by a theoretical model of a computer, in a finite amount of time
- (of a set) whose characteristic function is recursive (4)
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