Definition of "recurse" [recurse]

• To execute a procedure recursively. (verb)

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• ""recurse" all the way to the leaf calls because the calls are actually being made external to the function and state is being preserved in the with_a/with_b closures."
• "The generation of writers that Bukiet is deriding simply recurse that cynicism, apply it to itself."
• "My first instinct, of course, was to write a function that would recurse over the tree structure that's used to store a key stream within the archive because if a key stream is too large to fit in a block, it needs to be split into blocks, and then another higher-level smaller key stream used to collect that list of blocks..., building up a list in memory which it would return."