recursive

adj
/ɹɪˈkɜː(ɹ)sɪv/

Etymology

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

  1. learned borrowing from recursīvus

Definitions

  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…

    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. + 2 more definitions
    1. which can be computed by a theoretical model of a computer, in a finite amount of time

    2. whose characteristic function is recursive (4)

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for recursive. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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