noun🔗ShareThe act of recurring."The child's constant questioning was a perfect example of recursion; each answer only led to another, similar question. "processcomputingmathlogicsciencetechnologyChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareThe act of defining an object (usually a function) in terms of that object itself."n! = n × (n − 1)! (for n > 0) or 1 (for n = 0) defines the factorial function using recursion."computingmathlogictechnicalfunctionscienceChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareThe invocation of a procedure from within itself."This function uses recursion to compute factorials."technologycomputingmathlogicscienceChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading