recursive

adjective

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Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈkɜː(ɹ)sɪv/

Etymology: Learned borrowing from New Latin recursīvus. Equivalent to recurse + -ive.

drawing upon itself, referring back.
“The recursive nature of stories which borrow from each other”
of an expression, each term of which is determined by applying a formula to preceding terms
of a program or function that calls itself
which can be computed by a theoretical model of a computer, in a finite amount of time
whose characteristic function is recursive (4)