Usually means: Repeating a process within itself.
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General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. recursion: Merriam-Webster
  2. recursion: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. recursion: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. recursion: Collins English Dictionary
  5. recursion: Vocabulary.com
  6. Recursion, recursion: Wordnik
  7. recursion: Wiktionary
  8. recursion: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. recursion: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Recursion, recursion: Dictionary.com
  11. Recursion (computer science), Recursion (disambiguation), Recursion: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Recursion: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. recursion: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. recursion: Rhymezone
  15. Recursion: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. recursion: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. recursion: FreeDictionary.org
  18. recursion: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. recursion: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Literary Criticism (No longer online)
  2. Recursion: Lexicon of Linguistics

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. recursion: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Recursion: Cybernetics and Systems
  3. Recursion: Game Dictionary
  4. recursion: Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures
  5. Recursion: Tech Terms Computer Dictionary
  6. Webopedia (No longer online)
  7. Recursion (Concept), recursion: Encyclopedia

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

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Drug Discovery and Development (No longer online)
  2. Recursion: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  3. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

(Note: See recursions as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (recursion)

noun:  The act of recurring.
noun:  (mathematics) The act of defining an object (usually a function) in terms of that object itself.
noun:  (programming) The invocation of a procedure from within itself.

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