simple past tense and past participle of recurse

present participle of recurse

(heraldry) Having its back towards the observer; said especially of an eagle.

An acronym in which a word (often the first) of the phrase represented by the acronym is the acronym itself.

(programming) Employing tail recursion.

(computing) Any function that uses recursion and can call itself until a certain condition is met

(mathematics) Of a function, capable of being constructed from the zero function, successor function, and projection functions, by a finite number of applications of composition and recursion.

(computing theory) Of a set, such that there exists a deterministic algorithm which will list all the items in the set and no others.

plural of recursive acronym

(semantics) A definition of a term within which the term itself appears, and that is well-founded, avoiding an infinite regress.