recurrent

See also: récurrent

English

Etymology

From Latin recurrens (present participle of recurrere).

Adjective

recurrent (not comparable)

1. Recurring time after time.

   The patient complained of recurrent chest pain.

2. (mathematics, stochastic processes, of a state) non-transient.
3. Running back toward its origin.

   a recurrent nerve or artery

Synonyms

• (math): persistent

Related terms

• quasirecurrent
• recurrence

Translations

recurring time after time

• Finnish: uusiutuva (fi), toistuva (fi)
• French: périodique (fr), récurrent (fr)
• German: wiederholt (de), wiederkehrend (de)
• Irish: athfhillteach
• Italian: ricorrente (it)
• Manx: aahaghyrtagh
• Maori: auau, tāruarua, huirangi

• Portuguese: recorrente (pt) m, f
• Romanian: recurent (ro) m, reînceput m, repetat (ro) m
• Russian: повторя́ющийся (ru) (povtorjájuščijsja), возвраща́ющийся (ru) (vozvraščájuščijsja), рециди́вный (ru) (recidívnyj) (law, medicine), возвра́тный (ru) (vozvrátnyj), периоди́ческий (ru) (periodíčeskij)
• Spanish: recurrente (es)
• Swedish: återkommande (sv)
• Turkish: (medicine) nükseden, tekrarlayan, (medicine) reküran, (medicine) rekürent

math: non-transient

• German: rekurrent
• Hebrew: נשנה (nishné)

• Russian: рекурре́нтный (ru) (rekurréntnyj)
• Turkish: rekurrent

running back toward its origin

• Spanish: recurrente (es) (anatomy)

Anagrams

• currenter

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Latin

Verb

recurrent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of recurrō