recursion
noun/rɪˈkɜrʒən/
Frequency rank: #17,926 most common English word
Meaning
a process in which a function or procedure calls itself as part of its own definition or execution.
Example sentence
The programmer used recursion to make the function call itself repeatedly until it reached the base case.
Synonyms & related words
- self-reference
- iteration
- looping
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