recursive

adj

1. drawing upon itself, referring back.

   “The recursive nature of stories which borrow from each other”

2. (not-comparable)of an expression, each term of which is determined by applying a formula to preceding terms
3. (not-comparable)of a program or function that calls itself
4. (not-comparable)which can be computed by a theoretical model of a computer, in a finite amount of time
5. (not-comparable)whose characteristic function is recursive (4)