recursions

Noun

recursion (countable and uncountable, plural recursions)

1. The act of recurring.
   • The inhabitants predicate the recursion of these storms by numerous other signs, and are prompt to take every precaution to avoid their effects.1852, William Hastings Macaulay, chapter XIX, in Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas
2. The act of defining an object (usually a function) in terms of that object itself.
   • n! = n × (n − 1)! (for n > 0) or 1 (for n = 0) defines the factorial function using recursion.
3. The invocation of a procedure from within itself.
   • This function uses recursion to compute factorials.