recurrent

See also: récurrent

English

Etymology

From Latin recurrens, present participle of recurrere. Morphologically recur +‎ -ent.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, Australia) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈkʌɹənt/

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• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈkɝənt/

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• Rhymes: -ʌɹənt

Adjective

recurrent (not comparable)

1. Recurring; happening time after time.

   Synonyms: perennial, repetitious; see also Thesaurus:repetitive

   The patient complained of recurrent chest pain.

2. (mathematics, stochastic processes, of a state) Non-transient.

   Synonym: persistent

   Antonym: transient

3. (botany, anatomy) Running back toward its origin.

   Antonym: precurrent

   a recurrent nerve or artery

4. (entomology) Turned back toward the base.

Derived terms

• interrecurrent
• nonrecurrent
• null recurrent
• oligorecurrent
• positive recurrent
• quasirecurrent
• recurrent aborter
• recurrent laryngeal nerve
• recurrently
• recurrent neural network
• recurrent nova
• recurrent slope linea
• unrecurrent

Related terms

• recurrence

Translations

recurring time after time

• Bulgarian: повтарящ се (povtarjašt se)
• Catalan: recurrent (ca)
• Finnish: uusiutuva (fi), toistuva (fi)
• French: périodique (fr), récurrent (fr)
• Galician: recorrente
• Georgian: განმეორებითი (ganmeorebiti), პერიოდული (ṗerioduli), დროდადრო განმეორებადი (drodadro ganmeorebadi), პერიოდულად განმეორებადი (ṗeriodulad ganmeorebadi), რეგულარულად განმეორებადი (regularulad ganmeorebadi)
• German: wiederholt (de), wiederkehrend (de)
• Irish: athfhillteach
• Italian: ricorrente (it)
• Japanese: 再発性の (saihatsusei no)
• Manx: aahaghyrtagh
• Māori: auau, tāruarua, huirangi
• Portuguese: recorrente (pt)
• Romanian: recurent (ro), reînceput, repetat (ro)
• 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

• Bulgarian: рекурентен (rekurenten)
• German: rekurrent
• Hebrew: נשנה (nishné)
• Russian: рекурре́нтный (ru) (rekurréntnyj)
• Turkish: rekurrent

running back toward its origin

• Georgian: შექცევითი (šekceviti)
• Portuguese: recorrente (pt)
• Spanish: recurrente (es) (anatomy)

Anagrams

• currenter

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin recurrentem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern) [rə.kuˈre̞n]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [rə.kuˈrent]
• IPA^(key): (Central) [rə.kuˈren]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [re.kuˈrent]
• IPA^(key): (Northwestern) [re.kuˈren]

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Adjective

recurrent m or f (masculine and feminine plural recurrents)

1. recurring, recurrent

Related terms

• recórrer
• recurrència

Further reading

• “recurrent”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “recurrent”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “recurrent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “recurrent”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

Latin

Verb

recurrent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of recurrō