recursion

Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈkɜː(ɹ)ʒən/

The English word “recursion” has 3 meanings listed here.

noun

The act of recurring.
The act of defining an object (usually a function) in terms of that object itself.
The invocation of a procedure from within itself.

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin recursiō (“the act of running back or again, return”), from recurrō (“run back; return”), from re- (“back, again”) + currō (“run”).

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