Usually means: Recursion with last operation return.
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  1. tail recursion: Wiktionary
  2. tail recursion: Dictionary.com
  3. Tail-recursion, Tail recursion: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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  1. tail recursion: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. tail recursion: Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures
  3. Tail-recursion, tail recursion: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (tail recursion)

noun:  (programming) The technique of writing a function so that recursive calls are only done immediately before function return, particularly when recursive control structures are used in place of iterative ones.

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