Usually means: Repeatedly applying the same process.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word recursive:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. recursive: Merriam-Webster
  2. recursive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. recursive: Collins English Dictionary
  4. recursive: Vocabulary.com
  5. Recursive, recursive: Wordnik
  6. recursive: Wiktionary
  7. recursive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. recursive: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. recursive: Dictionary.com
  10. Recursive (computer science), Recursive: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. recursive: Rhymezone
  12. recursive: FreeDictionary.org
  13. recursive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. recursive: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. recursive: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. recursive: CCI Computer
  3. recursive: Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures
  4. recursive: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. recursive: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. The Computational Beauty of Nature (No longer online)
  2. recursive: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  3. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)

(Note: See recursively as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  drawing upon itself, referring back.
adjective:  (mathematics, not comparable) of an expression, each term of which is determined by applying a formula to preceding terms
adjective:  (computing, not comparable) of a program or function that calls itself
adjective:  (computing theory, not comparable, of a function) which can be computed by a theoretical model of a computer, in a finite amount of time
adjective:  (computing theory, not comparable, of a set) whose characteristic function is recursive (4)

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