The Collaborative International Dictionary
recurring decimal
Decimal \Dec"i*mal\, n. A number expressed in the scale of tens; specifically, and almost exclusively, used as synonymous with a decimal fraction.
Circulating decimal, or Circulatory decimal, a decimal fraction in which the same figure, or set of figures, is constantly repeated; as, 0.354354354; -- called also recurring decimal, repeating decimal, and repetend.
WordNet
recurring decimal
n. a decimal with a sequence of digits that repeats itself indefinitely [syn: circulating decimal, repeating decimal]
Usage examples of "recurring decimal".
Death, the Recurring Decimal, by Hercule Poirot, One of his well-known monographs.
One might edge a wall-paper or fringe a robe with a recurring decimal.