adjective
recursive
involving a procedure that repeats by calling or containing a smaller version of itself
In a sentence
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
Study recursive until you keep it
Learn English words in sentences about topics you pick, with a quick quiz. With an account, words come back for review.
Found in these word lists
- Computer Science Word ListAuthoritative
Each source is a published word list that contains recursive. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.