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recursive

involving a procedure that repeats by calling or containing a smaller version of itself

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Six example sentences with recursive, each labelled with its topic.

  • The function calls itself on a smaller slice of the list, a recursive design that fits the problem in six lines.

    Technology

  • The dungeon generator is recursive: every room it creates splits again into two smaller rooms until the budget runs out.

    Gaming

  • Defining a sentence as a clause that may itself contain a sentence gives grammar a recursive shape with no fixed ceiling.

    Philosophy

  • The cocoa tin's label is recursive, showing a nurse holding a tray with the same tin, and the same tin again on that.

    Art

  • A fern's frond is recursive, each leaflet repeating the shape of the whole at a smaller scale.

    Science

  • The novel is recursive, since its narrator is writing a novel whose narrator is writing the book you hold.

    Literature

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