recurrent
See also: récurrent
English
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Adjective
recurrent (not comparable)
- Recurring; happening time after time.
- Synonyms: perennial, repetitious; see also Thesaurus:repetitive
- The patient complained of recurrent chest pain.
- (mathematics, stochastic processes, of a state) Non-transient.
- Synonym: persistent
- Antonym: transient
- (anatomy) Running back toward its origin.
- Antonym: precurrent
- a recurrent nerve or artery
- (entomology) Turned back toward the base.
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recurring time after time
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math: non-transient
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running back toward its origin
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Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin recurrentem.
Related terms
- recórrer
- recurrència
Further reading
- “recurrent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “recurrent”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “recurrent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “recurrent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Latin
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