recurrence
nounUS /rəˈkɝ.əns/
Etymology From recurrent + -ence, cognate with Latin recurrentia, from recurrēns (“returning back, recurring”), form of recurrō (“to return, to recur”) (English recur).
1
Return or reversion to a certain state.
2
The instance of recurring; frequent occurrence.
- I shall insensibly go on from a rare to a frequent recurrence to the dangerous preparations.1860, Isaac Taylor, Logic in Theolog, Without Controversy:
3
A return of symptoms as part of the natural progress of a disease.
- Near-synonym: relapse
4
Recourse.
- Synonyms
- recurrency, reoccurrence
- Derived terms
- eternal recurrence, nonrecurrence, null recurrence, oligorecurrence, Poincaré recurrence time, positive recurrence, postrecurrence, prerecurrence, recurrence relation, recurrence time
- Related terms
- recur, recurrent, recursive, recursivity, recursion
- Hyponyms
- recrudescence, reemergence, resurgence