Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun recursion

1 sense of recursion

Sense 1
recursion -- ((mathematics) an expression such that each term is generated by repeating a particular mathematical operation)
       => rule, formula -- ((mathematics) a standard procedure for solving a class of mathematical problems; "he determined the upper bound with Descartes' rule of signs"; "he gave us a general formula for attacking polynomials")