referential

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Right now the system is self-referential, as the output is evaluated by the same one that facilitated the inputs.

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  1. Relating to or having reference; relating to or containing a reference or references. Any one might take down a lecture, word for word, for his own referential use. Athenæum, No. 2944, p. 411.

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  • Are we hopelessly self-referential or does the world truly speak to us? —  F ;SF; - vol 102 issue 05 - May 2002
  • Her game is recursive and self-referential, and she takes it to the max with Adventures in Time and Space with Max Merriwell , which begins as newly divorced Susan Galina and her friend Pat Murphy board a cruise ship. —  Analog, March 2002
  • Ancient specimens can lapse into odd conditions if they are left too long to their own devices, but those maladies are largely self-referential: the integrator lapses into a circular conundrum, endlessly chasing its own conclusion. —  FSFMagazine,June2007
  • Taking place is a typically PDK police state in the US and amusingly self-referential (if you're the main character how can you not be), Nicholas receives incomprehensible information that slowly forms into a coherent message. —  Evolving Web
  • So leading a disorganized, self-referential, and failed campaign for President is not enough to define the GOP in McCain's image? —  Latest Articles
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  1. from reference (Middle Latin *referentia) + -al.
 

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