recursive

About 2.03 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Drawing upon, invoking, or referring back to itself.

   the recursive nature of stories which borrow from each other

2. adjective Having to do with an object (typically a function or formula) which is defined in terms of the object itself.
3. adjective Having to do with an algorithm, program, subroutine, procedure, function, or other block of code that calls itself.
4. adjective Having to do with a function which can be computed by a theoretical model of a computer in a finite amount of time.(Can we add an example for this sense?)
5. adjective Having to do with a set whose characteristic function is recursive (sense 4).(Can we add an example for this sense?)

Similar words

algorithmic recursion recurrent recurring return recurrence appellant self-referential looping iterative

Often followed by

function call functions calls definition procedure algorithm and process

Word family

recursively recursiveness recursivenesses