recurrence

See also: récurrence

English

Etymology

From recurrent +‎ -ence, cognate with Latin recurrentia, from recurrēns (“returning back, recurring”), form of recurrō (“I return, I recur”) (English recur).

Noun

recurrence (countable and uncountable, plural recurrences)

1. Return or reversion to a certain state.
2. The instance of recurring; frequent occurrence.
   • 1860, Isaac Taylor, Logic in Theolog, Without Controversy:

     I shall insensibly go on from a rare to a frequent recurrence to the dangerous preparations.

3. A return of symptoms as part of the natural progress of a disease.

   Antonym: remission

   Hyponyms: rebleed, rebleeding

   Near-synonym: relapse

4. Recourse.

Synonyms

• (process of recurring): recurrency
• (instance of recurring): reoccurrence; see also Thesaurus:reoccurrence

Hyponyms

• recrudescence
• reemergence
• resurgence

Derived terms

• eternal recurrence
• null recurrence
• Poincaré recurrence time
• positive recurrence
• recurrence relation
• recurrence time

 

Related terms

• recur
• recurrent
• recursive
• recursivity
• recursion

Translations

return or reversion to a certain state

• Bulgarian: връщане (bg) n (vrǎštane), повторение (bg) n (povtorenie)
• Esperanto: reokazo
• French: récurrence (fr) f
• German: Rückfall (de) m, Wiederholung (de) f
• Japanese: 回帰 (ja) (kaiki), 復帰 (ja) (fukki)
• Portuguese: reversão (pt) f, retorno (pt) m, volta (pt) f
• Romanian: repetare (ro) f, reîncepere (ro) f, reîntoarcere (ro) f
• Russian: возвраще́ние (ru) n (vozvraščénije), повторе́ние (ru) n (povtorénije)
• Spanish: recurrencia f

the instance of recurring; frequent occurrence

• Bulgarian: повторение (bg) n (povtorenie)
• French: récurrence (fr) f
• German: Rekurrenz (de) f, Rückfall (de) m
• Japanese: 再現 (ja) (saigen), 再発 (ja) (saihatsu)
• Manx: aahaghyrt m
• Portuguese: recorrência (pt) f
• Russian: рециди́в (ru) m (recidív)

a return of symptoms as part of the natural progress of a disease

• Bulgarian: рецидив (bg) m (recidiv)
• Finnish: uusiutuma, uusiutuminen (fi)
• French: récurrence (fr) f
• German: Rekurrenz (de) f, Rückfall (de) m
• Japanese: 再発 (ja) (saihatsu)
• Maori: matahoki
• Portuguese: recorrência (pt) f
• Spanish: recaída (es) f

recourse — see recourse

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “recurrence”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.