What is "recursive"

Usage examples of "recursive".

However, while the story succeeds as a humorous account of the commodification of self-reflexive postmodernism, as an attempt to expose the illusions of metafiction by a kind of meta-metafiction, the work becomes tangled in its own recursive spiral.

I meant the crack facetiously, but I heard him doing the recursive algebra in his head at the other end.

But the severe mathematics of recursive architecture are lost in the first ornament of aria.

His computer screen flared for an instant as it disconnected, the recursive Section 31 algorithms covering his exit, and then he was done.

Neither of them, however, includes a common Malzberg ingredient, the recursive element.

Over the last twenty years, the worldwide net had come to be a midden of bogus sites and recursive fraudulence.

This time it is more intensely recursive than most, and I see it in my mind as stacks of fractal growth, forming a spiky sphere.

In a castle like that, with infinite rooms and recursive stairs, he could hide forever from his grief.

He reworked stairways so that they never rose but only ran in recursive circles or ascended to the foundations or descended to the heavens.

And this recursive web of directions and labeling was, of course, subject to constant change, as the stars slid through the sky, changing their orientations to each other.

Melancholia is a recursive, self-replicating structure: it continually generates the very alienation of which it then complains.

The medical attache, at their apartment, is still viewing the unlabelled cartridge, which he has rewound to the beginning several times and then configured for a recursive loop.

Dim lights danced briefly in the black eyes of the bird as, deep in its instructional address space, bracket after bracket was finally closing,if clauses were finally ending, repeat loops halting, recursive functions calling themselves for the last few times.

In a sort of recursive fugue of dependent clauses he was, similarly, able to proclaim Drake Waterhouse to’.

As soon as he had paid the rather hefty entrance fee, he was free to climb the winding, recursive stairs, liberally provided with landings and chairs for the benefit of the unsteady devotee who might be coming this way from the House of Wine on the ground level.