Crossword clues for recurrence
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Recurrence \Re*cur"rence\ (r?*k?r"rens), Recurrency \Re*cur"ren*cy\ (-ren*s?), n. [Cf. F. r['e]currence.] The act of recurring, or state of being recurrent; return; resort; recourse.
I shall insensibly go on from a rare to a frequent
recurrence to the dangerous preparations.
--I. Taylor.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1640s, from recurrent + -ence. Related: Recurrency (1610s).
Wiktionary
n. 1 return or reversion to a certain state. 2 The instance of recur; frequent occurrence. 3 A return of symptoms as part of the natural progress of a disease. 4 recourse.
WordNet
n. happening again (especially at regular intervals); "the return of spring" [syn: return]
Wikipedia
Recurrence and recurrent may refer to:
- Disease recurrence, also called relapse
- Eternal recurrence, or eternal return, the concept that the universe has been recurring, and will continue to recur, in a self-similar form an infinite number of times across infinite time or space
- Historic recurrence, the repetition of similar events in history
- Poincaré recurrence theorem, Henri Poincaré's theorem on dynamical systems
- Radial recurrent artery – arising from the radial artery immediately below the elbow
- Recurrence (album), a 2008 metalcore album by Vira
- Recurrent neural network, a special artificial neural network
- Recurrence period density entropy, an information-theoretic method for summarising the recurrence properties of a dynamical systems
- Recurrence plot, a statistical plot that shows a pattern that re-occurs
- Recurrence relation, an equation which defines a sequence recursively
- Recurrent rotation, a term used in contemporary hit radio for frequently aired songs
Usage examples of "recurrence".
Its most visible sign is not so much the use of the Czech language as it is a quite singular architectonic feature: the nearly obsessive recurrence of the number seven.
Now the baronet had so far compromised between the recurrence of his softer feelings and the suggestions of his new familiar, that he had determined to act toward Richard with justness.
Black Death was, of course, a shrunken population, which, owing to wars, brigandage, and recurrence of the plague, declined even further by the end of the 14th century.
If our civilization has any hope of enduring, if we are to avoid a recurrence of the pandemoniac Cannibal Wars, we must continue to rely on this Holy Dictum.
The Romans knew that it occurred in different manifestations: quartan and tertian, and a more serious form having no regular rhythmic recurrence of the rigors.
In the region of the great lakes, throughout the vast district which feeds the market of Zanzibar, in Bornu and Fezzan, further south on the banks of the Nyassa and Zambesi, further west in the districts of the Upper Zaire, just traversed by the intrepid Stanley, everywhere there is the recurrence of the same scenes of ruin, slaughter, and devastation.
I soon began to improve and after using three bottles each of the above named remedies the pain and soreness left my ear, my hearing returned and I considered myself completely cured, and indeed there has been no recurrence of the trouble since.
Pavilion of Recurrence looks like an Arabian tent, a finespun marvel of white-and-scarlet cloth billowing in a place of sand and mirage.
Marak glowered, resting, nursing the recurrence of pain the Ila had given him.
We have already commented, in this connection, on the exacerbation or recurrence of respiratory crises, oculogyric crises, iterative hyperkineses, and tics.
As an antislavery man, I have a motive to desire emancipation which proslavery men do not have but even they have strong enough reason to thus place themselves again under the shield of the Union, and to thus perpetually hedge against the recurrence of the scenes through which we are now passing.
The fetal movements ceased, and a recurrence of these symptoms led the patient to go to stool, at which she passed blood and a seromucoid fluid.
He knew, as a matter of fact, that there had been several nasty, meticulously unpublicized, near-catastrophes at the Long Island Nuclear Reaction Plant, all involving the new Doernberg-Giardano breeder-reactors, and that there had been considerable carefully-hushed top-level acrimony before the Melroy Engineering Corporation had been given the contract to install the fully cybernetic control system intended to prevent a recurrence of such incidents.
There were three thousand Boers in all in this camp, which was shortly afterwards moved down to Natal in order to avoid the recurrence of such an incident.
At a conference which took place at the Tauride Palace late in the night of July 16-17 between some Bolsheviks and ward organisations, I supported the motion of Kamenev that everything should be done to prevent a recurrence of the demonstration on July 17th.