Verb
recurse (third-person singular simple present recurses, present participle recursing, simple past and past participle recursed)
(intransitive, computing) To execute a procedure recursively.
The algorithm then recurses on the children of the current tree node.
In the algorithm above, all cases are chained in order, except in insert case 3 where it can recurse to case 1 back to the grandparent node: this is the only case where an iterative implementation will effectively loop. Source: Internet
In the algorithm above, all cases are chained in order, except in delete case 3 where it can recurse to case 1 back to the parent node: this is the only case where an iterative implementation will effectively loop. Source: Internet