recursion

باللغة العربية: عَوْدِيَّة

1. The act of recurring. (countable, uncountable)
2. The act of defining an object (usually a function) in terms of that object itself. (countable, uncountable) · n! = n × (n − 1)! (for n > 0) or 1 (for n = 0) defines the factorial function using recursion.
3. The invocation of a procedure from within itself. (countable, uncountable) · This function uses recursion to compute factorials.

الجمع recursions