recursive descent (English, noun)
expansion: recursive descent (uncountable)
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glosses: A kind of top-down parsing involving a set of mutually recursive procedures, each of which implements one of the non-terminals of the grammar, so that the structure of the parser program closely mirrors that of the grammar.
tags: uncountable
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