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English
Pronunciation
Verb
recurring
- present participle and gerund of recur
Adjective
recurring (comparative more recurring, superlative most recurring)
- Happening or occurring frequently, with repetition.
He has recurring asthma attacks.
Revenge is a recurring theme in this novel.
- (mathematics, not comparable) Of a decimal: having a set of digits that is repeated indefinitely.
Every rational number can be written as either a terminating decimal or a recurring decimal.
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Translations
happening frequently
- Catalan: recurrent (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 循环的, 反复的
- Czech: opakovaný (cs), opakující se, vracející se
- Dutch: (zich) herhalend, terugkerend (nl)
- Finnish: toistuva (fi)
- Galician: recorrente
- German: (immer, periodisch) wiederkehrend (de)
- Hungarian: visszatérő (hu), ismétlődő (hu)
- Irish: athfhillteach
- Latin: recidīvus
- Manx: aafilltagh
- Maori: huirangi
- Portuguese: recorrente (pt)
- Russian: повторяющийся (ru) (povtorjajuščijsja), периоди́ческий (ru) (periodíčeskij)
- Spanish: recurrente (es)
- Turkish: devirli (tr), (trade) tekrar eden, tekrarlayan, yinelenen
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math:having a set of digits that is repeated indefinitely
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Noun
recurring (plural recurrings)
- A recurrence; a coming round again.
2009, Martin E. Marty, A Cry of Absence: Reflections for the Winter of the Heart, page 21:Winter, here, is a dimension of all reality, not one-fourth of the spiritual year's endless recurrings.
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