recursion -
The act of defining an object usually a function in terms of that object itself.
recursion -
The calling of a function from within that same function.
Wikipedia
Recursion, in mathematics and computer science, is a method of defining functions in which the function being defined is applied within its own definition; specifically it is defining an infinite statement using finite components. The term is also used more generally to describe a process of repeating objects in a self-similar way. For instance, when the surfaces of two mirrors are exactly parallel with each other the nested images that occur are a form of infinite recursion.
OmegaWiki Dictionary
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recursion The definition of an operation in terms of itself.
