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recursion
Noun
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Recursion is the act or process of going back and happening again.
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Recursion is the use of a function inside itself to generate an infinite number of results.
The following function exhibits recursion.
mathF(0) = a/math
mathF(n + 1) = f(F(n))/math
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Recursion is the use of one kind of linguistic unit inside itself.
An example of recursion is when a clause appears inside a larger clause, as in the following:
The cat uthat I saw/u was black.
recursion
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noun
(mathematics) an expression such that each term is generated by repeating a particular mathematical operation
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