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re·cur·rent

(rĭ-kûr′ənt)

adj.

1. Occurring or appearing again or repeatedly.

2. Anatomy Turning in a reverse direction. Used of blood vessels and nerves.

re·cur′rent·ly adv.

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recurrent

(rɪˈkʌrənt)

adj

1. happening or tending to happen again or repeatedly

2. (Anatomy) anatomy (of certain nerves, branches of vessels, etc) turning back, so as to run in the opposite direction

reˈcurrently adv

reˈcurrence n

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re•cur•rent

(rɪˈkɜr ənt, -ˈkʌr-)

adj.

1. occurring or appearing repeatedly.

2. turned back so as to run in a reverse direction, as a nerve, artery, branch, etc.

re•cur′rent•ly, adv.

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Adj.

recurrent - recurring again and again; "perennial efforts to stipulate the requirements"

repeated, perennial

continual - occurring without interruption; chiefly restricted to what recurs regularly or frequently in a prolonged and closely spaced series; "the continual banging of the shutters"

recurrent

adjective periodic, continued, regular, repeated, frequent, recurring, repetitive, cyclical, habitual buildings in which staff suffer recurrent illness
isolated, one-off

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recurrent

adjective

Happening or appearing at regular intervals:

cyclic, cyclical, isochronal, isochronous, periodic, periodical.

Idiom: like clockwork.

Translations

مُتَكَرِّر، مُعاوِد

opakovaný

tilbagevendende

ítrekaîur

recurrent

[rɪˈkʌrənt] ADJ [problem, feature] → repetido, constante (Anat, Med) → recurrente
it is a recurrent theme → es un tema constante or que se repite a menudo

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

recurrent

[rɪˈkʌrənt] adj [illness, symptoms, injury, problem] → récurrent(e); [dream, nightmare] → récurrent(e); [work., thought] → qui revient; [pattern] → qui se répète

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

recurrent

adj

idea, theme, illness, symptom(s), dream, nightmare → (ständig) wiederkehrend attr; error, problem → häufig (vorkommend); event(s) → sich wiederholend attr; expenses → regelmäßig wiederkehrend

(Anat) → sich zurückziehend

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

recurrent

[rɪˈkʌr/ənt] adj → ricorrente

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

recur

(riˈkəː) – past tense, past participle reˈcurred – verb

to happen again; to come back again. This problem keeps recurring.

reˈcurrence (-ˈka-) , ((American) -ˈkə:-) noun

He has had several recurrences of his illness.

reˈcurrent (-ˈka-) , ((American) -ˈkə:-) adjective

happening often or regularly. a recurrent nightmare.

re·cur·rent

a. recurrente, que reaparece temporalmente; repetido, constante;

___ cystitis → cistitis ___;

___ pain → dolor constante.

recurrent

adj recurrente

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In looking at Nature, it is most necessary to keep the foregoing considerations always in mind--never to forget that every single organic being around us may be said to be striving to the utmost to increase in numbers; that each lives by a struggle at some period of its life; that heavy destruction inevitably falls either on the young or old, during each generation or at recurrent intervals.

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The sinking, moreover, whether continuous, or recurrent with intervals sufficiently long for the corals again to bring up their living edifices to the surface, must necessarily have been extremely slow.

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But the first glad moment in our first love is a vision which returns to us to the last, and brings with it a thrill of feeling intense and special as the recurrent sensation of a sweet odour breathed in a far-off hour of happiness.