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English

Etymology

From Latin recurrens, present participle of recurrere.

Adjective

recurrent (not comparable)

1. Recurring; happening time after time.

   Synonyms: perennial, repetitious; see also Thesaurus:repetitive

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

   Synonym: persistent

   Antonym: transient

3. (anatomy) Running back toward its origin.

   Antonym: precurrent

4. (entomology) Turned back toward the base.

Derived terms

Related terms

• recurrence

Translations

Anagrams

• currenter

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin recurr?ns.

Adjective

recurrent (masculine and feminine plural recurrents)

1. recurring, recurrent

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.
• “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

Verb

recurrent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of recurr?

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin recursi? (“the act of running back or again, return”), from recurr? (“run back; return”), from re- (“back, again”) + curr? (“run”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??(r)??n

Noun

recursion (countable and uncountable, plural recursions)

1. The act of recurring.
2. (mathematics) The act of defining an object (usually a function) in terms of that object itself.

   • However, we have still not achieved our goal of devising a finite set of rules
     which will generate an infinite set of sentence structures. In order to achieve
     this goal, we need to allow for the fact that natural languages typically have
     the property that they allow potentially infinite recursion of particular struc-
     tures. For example, one Clause can be embedded inside another indefinitely
     many times, [...]

   n! = n × (n ? 1)! (for n > 0) or 1 (for n = 0) defines the factorial function using recursion.

3. (computing) The invocation of a procedure from within itself.

   This function uses recursion to compute factorials.

Derived terms

• tail recursion
• infinite recursion

Related terms

• recur
• recurrent
• recurrence
• recurse
• recursive
• recursivity

Translations

Anagrams

• coinsurer