Recursion - Wikipedia A recursive step — a set of rules that reduces all successive cases toward the base case For example, the following is a recursive definition of a person's ancestor
RECURSIVE Definition Meaning | Dictionary. com Recursive has very specific meanings in math, computer programming, and linguistics, but in each case it involves some form of repetition, especially when part of a sequence or formula relies on previous parts
Recursive definition - Wikipedia In mathematics and computer science, a recursive definition, or inductive definition, is used to define the elements in a set in terms of other elements in the set (Aczel 1977:740ff)