recurrent

See also: récurrent

English

Etymology

From Latin recurrens, present participle of recurrere.

Adjective

recurrent (not comparable)

1. Recurring; happening 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

   Antonym: precurrent

Synonyms

• (math): persistent

Derived terms

• nonrecurrent
• null recurrent
• positive recurrent
• quasirecurrent
• recurrent aborter
• recurrently
• recurrent neural network
• recurrent nova
• recurrent slope linea

 

Related terms

• 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 or 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