recurrent

---

Adjective

recurrent (not comparable)

1. Recurring; happening time after time.

   The patient complained of recurrent chest pain.

   Synonyms: perennial, repetitious, Thesaurus:repetitive

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

   Synonyms: persistent

   Antonyms: transient

3. (anatomy) Running back toward its origin.

   a recurrent nerve or artery

   Antonyms: precurrent

4. (entomology) Turned back toward the base.

Related terms

• recurrence

Translations

• French: périodique, récurrent
• German: wiederholt, wiederkehrend
• Italian: ricorrente
• Portuguese: recorrente
• Russian: повторя́ющийся
• Spanish: recurrente

Translations

• German: rekurrent
• Russian: рекурре́нтный

Translations

• Spanish: recurrente (anatomy)

---

This text is extracted from the Wiktionary and it is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license | Terms and conditions | Privacy policy 0.002