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  • noun The dual to recursion, that acts on the computed result, rather than the input.

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  • Incorporating concepts and results from category theory, coalgebra leads us to concepts such as corecursion and coinduction; these are in a sense duals to the more standard notions of recursion and induction.

    Non-wellfounded Set Theory Moss, Lawrence S. 2008

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