recurrent
rɪˈkɜːrənt
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Adjective

1.
repeat over timehappening repeatedly over time
  • The recurrent meetings were scheduled every Monday.
cyclical recurring repeated
2.
medicalTECH.running back toward its originTECH.
  • The recurrent nerve was carefully examined by the surgeon.
retrograde returning
3.
mathematicsTECH.non-transient in a mathematical contextTECH.
  • The recurrent state was analyzed in the stochastic process.
cyclic periodic repetitive
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Expressions with recurrent

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event that recurs at intervals
The annual festival is a recurrent event in our town.
medical condition with repeated fever episodes
The patient was diagnosed with recurrent fever after several tests.
computer system of connected units that remembers earlier inputs in a sequence
The engineer used a recurrent neural network to improve speech recognition accuracy.

Origin of recurrent

Latin, recurrere (to run back)

Terms with recurrent included in their meaning

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childbirth
recurrent pain during childbirth
medical
chronic neurological disorder causing recurrent seizures
inconsistent timing
not consistent or recurrent at fixed times
capitalist economy
recurrent fluctuation between boom and depression
economic fluctuation
recurrent fluctuation between boom and depression in economy
linguistics
recurrent sound representing a morphological form
epilepsy
disorder causing sudden and recurrent seizures
medical
hereditary disorder causing recurrent fever in Mediterranean groups

Examples of recurrent in a sentence

  • The recurrent theme in her novels is love.
  • The recurrent artery was highlighted in the anatomy class.
  • Recurrent pathways are crucial in neural networks.
  • Recurrent sequences are crucial in this mathematical theory.
  • The mathematician focused on recurrent patterns in the data.

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  1. French:récurrent, cyclique, ...
  2. German:wiederkehrend, rezidivierend, ...
  3. Italian:ricorrente, retrogrado, ...
  4. Spanish:recurrente, regresivo, ...
  5. Portuguese:recorrente, reverso, ...
  6. Chinese:反复的, 回返的, ...
  7. Japanese:再発する, 再発性の, ...
  8. Arabic:مُتَكَرِّر, رَاجِع, ...
  9. Hebrew:חוֹזֵר, רֵקוּרֶנְטִי, ...
  10. Russian:повторяющийся, возвратный, ...
  11. Ukrainian:повторюваний, повторний, ...
  12. Hindi:आवर्ती, पुनरावर्ती, ...
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