Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of recurring, or the state of being recurrent; return.
  • noun Resort; the having recourse.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The act of recurring, or state of being recurrent; return; resort; recourse.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Return or reversion to a certain state.
  • noun The instance of recurring; frequent occurrence.
  • noun A return of symptoms as part of the natural progress of a disease.
  • noun Recourse.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun happening again (especially at regular intervals)

Etymologies

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recurrent +‎ -ence, cognate with Latin recurrentia, from recurrens (recurrēns, "returning back, recurring").

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Examples

  • "I fancy he's had what he calls a recurrence," says the doctor.

    Somehow Good William Frend De Morgan 1878

  • Eventually it goes away, but the possiblity of recurrence is high.

    Former senator Norm Coleman diagnosed with Bell's palsy 2009

  • The purpose of the eternal recurrence is to eliminate feelings of guilt, which lead to ressentiment.

    Matthew Yglesias » Eternal Recurrence 2010

  • Reducing local recurrence is a reasonable goal, because any tumor in the breast could be lethal.

    Good News and Bad News About Breast Cancer 1996

  • Reducing local recurrence is a reasonable goal, because any tumor in the breast could be lethal.

    Good News and Bad News About Breast Cancer 1996

  • The first would be that war has not been banished from this world-on the contrary, the danger of it's recurrence is a situation which we Canadians must frankly face.

    The Need for Canadian Military Preparation 1946

  • Depending upon the publication, the type of surgery performed (fasciectomy, fasciotomy, or needle aponeurotomy) and the definition of recurrence, surgical recurrence rates of up to 34% have been reported within the first two years following fasciectomy(6) and, at two years, rates range from 2% to 60% or more (7).

    unknown title 2011

  • Specifically, for this post hoc analysis, the definition of recurrence was (a) a joint contracture that was successfully treated (had previously achieved a reduction in contracture to five degrees or less at the Day 30 evaluation after the last injection of XIAFLEX) that subsequently increases by at least 30 degrees compared with the reference value with a palpable cord present or, (b) a joint which underwent correction to treat contracture in that joint.

    unknown title 2011

  • Although there is no standard methodology to measure recurrence, the literature2,3,4, on surgical treatment does reference a definition of recurrence as a 30 degree worsening of contracture following an intervention.

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  • The downside here is that there's some short - and medium-term recurrence risk.

    Baseball Prospectus 2010

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