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Self-referential data structure:

It is a data structure, contains sequence of elements which includes at least one pointer variable in type of its own kind.

The purpose of the self-referential data structure is that each variable maintains a link to another variable of the same type to forming a non-contiguous data structure. It is otherwise called as linked list.

It can be implemented to form other data structures such as list, stacks, queues and trees...

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