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recurrence
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See also: récurrence
English
Etymology
From recurrent + -ence, cognate with Latin recurrentia, from recurrēns (“returning back, recurring”), form of recurrō (“I return, I recur”) (English recur).
Noun
recurrence (countable and uncountable, plural recurrences)
- Return or reversion to a certain state.
- The instance of recurring; frequent occurrence.
- 1860, Isaac Taylor, Logic in Theolog, Without Controversy:
- I shall insensibly go on from a rare to a frequent recurrence to the dangerous preparations.
- A return of symptoms as part of the natural progress of a disease.
- Antonym: remission
- Hyponyms: rebleed, rebleeding
- Near-synonym: relapse
- Recourse.
Synonyms
- (process of recurring): recurrency
- (instance of recurring): reoccurrence; see also Thesaurus:reoccurrence
Hyponyms
Derived terms
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Translations
return or reversion to a certain state
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the instance of recurring; frequent occurrence
a return of symptoms as part of the natural progress of a disease
recourse — see recourse
References
- Douglas Harper (2001–2025), “recurrence”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
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