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Definition of recursive
1 : of, relating to, or involving recursion a recursive function in a computer program
2 : of, relating to, or constituting a procedure that can repeat itself indefinitely a recursive rule in a grammar
recursively
adverbrecursiveness
nounFrom the M-W Editors
Recent Examples of recursive from the Web
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French public culture has a cycling, recursive past: something as simple as a barricade on a Paris street today alludes to the barricades of 1968, which themselves echo the barricades of 1945, and 1871, and 1848, and 1830.
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This kind of recursive reasoning is why one cannot easily reason about game situations in isolation, which is at the heart of local search methods for perfect information games.
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The specific mechanism the hackers used is known as a recursive call vulnerability, — essentially a malicious transaction that moves money away from the D.A.O. into a side fund in an endlessly repeating loop.
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Lately Apple is trying to throw itself down a recursive rabbit-hole.
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First Known Use of recursive
1934
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