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Definition: Recurrence |
RecurrenceNoun1. Happening again (especially at regular intervals); "the return of spring". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "recurrence" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Health | The return of a sign, symptom, or disease after a remission. (references) |
Medicine | A not uncommon postdrug experience. . . is --, the phenomenon of some external or emotional stimulus setting off a more or less intense LSD experience even though the person has not taken the drug. . Source: European Union. (references) |
Solar | Used especially in reference to the recurrence of physical parameters every 27 days (the rotation period of the sun). (references) |
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Synonym: RecurrenceSynonym: return (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Memory | Reminiscence, recognition, recollection, rememoration; recurrence, flashback; retrospect, retrospection. |
Repetition | Noun: repetition, iteration, reiteration, harping, recurrence, succession, run; battology, tautology; monotony, tautophony; rhythm; diffuseness, pleonasm, redundancy. |
Restoration | Recurrence; (repetition); rechauffe, rifacimento. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | And Nietzsche, with his theory of eternal recurrence. He said that the life we lived we're gonna live over again the exact same way for eternity. (Hannah and Her Sisters; writing credit: Woody Allen) | |
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Health | Little information is available regarding recurrence rates. (references) | |
High nuclear grade is associated with a higher rate of recurrence. (references) | ||
Beta-blockers are given to decrease the recurrence of heart attack. (references) | ||
Economic History | Fiji | But investor confidence in Fiji has dropped significantly due to the recurrence of political instability. (references) |
Cyprus | This incident underscored the importance of continued cooperation between all concerned parties to avoid the recurrence of similar events until a lasting solution is found to the Cyprus problem. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Brazil | The program also envisions a pilot income generation program for rescued workers that aims to prevent the recurrence of forced labor. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | OCCASIONAL, adj. Afflicting us with greater or less frequency. That, however, is not the sense in which the word is used in the phrase "occasional verses," which are verses written for an "occasion," such as an anniversary, a celebration or other event. True, they afflict us a little worse than other sorts of verse, but their name has no reference to irregular recurrence. |
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James Monroe | 1817-1825 | I made that recommendation under a pledge that should the public exigencies require a recurrence to them at any time while I remained in this trust, I would with equal promptitude perform the duty which would then be alike incumbent on me. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | Our system fortunately contemplates a recurrence to first principles, differing in this respect from all that have preceded it, and securing it, I trust, equally against the decay and the commotions which have marked the progress of other governments. |
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| "Recurrence" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Recurrence" is used about 504 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 504 | 11,979 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "recurrence": have recurrence to ♦ recurrence formula ♦ recurrence phenomena ♦ regular recurrence. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "recurrence": non-recurrence. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "recurrence"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | rishfaqje (reappearance, rerun, resurgence), rikthim (reappearance, relapse, replacement, retrieval, reversion, throwback), përsëritje (encore, iterance, iteration, recapitulation, reduplication, rehearsal, reiteration, relapse, renewal, repeat, repetition, replication), kërkesë ndihme. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | تكرار (duplication, repetition), تواتر (recur), عودة (pay-book, renaissance, resumption, return, returning), رجوع (recession, renaissance, resilient, retreat, returning), ظهور جديد (retrieval). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | прибягване (recourse, repair, resort), повтаряне (frequency, iterance, recrudescence, reduplication, reiteration, repetition). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 再现 (reappear). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | recidiva (relapse, reverse), opakování (iterance, rehearsal, reiteration, repetition, retake, revision), návrat (regress, regression, return). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | pludselig tilbagevenden af usaedvanlige fysiske fornemmelser og synsindtryk (spontaneous recurrence of unusual somatic and visual sensations), paradoks angτende reversibilitet og genfremstτen (reversibility and recurrence paradoxes), flash-back (flash-back phenomena, flash-backs, recurrence phenomena), aftertrip (flash-back phenomena, flash-backs, recurrence phenomena). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | spontane herhaling van ongewone somatische en visuele belevingen (spontaneous recurrence of unusual somatic and visual sensations), paradox van de omkeerbaarheid en de terugkeer (reversibility and recurrence paradoxes), flash-backs (flash-back phenomena, flash-backs, recurrence phenomena). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | عود (Lute, Regression, Relapse, Reversion), رویدادن مجدد, بازگشت (Recess, Recession, Reference, Return), بازرخداد. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | uusiutuminen (regeneration). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | récurrence (recursion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | wiederkehr (anniversary, period, repetition, return), wiederholung (duplication, iteration, rebroadcast, recapitulation, reiteration, reiterativeness, repeat, repeating, repetition, replay, replication, rerun, retake, retaking, retry, revision, systrophe), wiederauftauchen (reappear, reappearance, resurface, to resurface), periodizität (frequency, intermittency, periodicity), erneut auftreten. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | επανάληψη (follow-up, iteration, iterative method, iterative process, lag, reiteration, repeat, repetition, replay, rerun, re-run, restatement, resumption, retry, to repeat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | "ש ות (recidivism, reiteration, repetition). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | visszatérés (come back, comeback, come-back, getting back, hark back, recovery, regress, regression, return, reversion), kiújulás (recrudescence), ismétlődés (repeat, repetition). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | keadaan kumat. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | ritorno (flyback, retrace, return, return from a procedure, return match, return pipe, reversal, reversion, run back), ricorso (appeal, application, petition, recourse, resort), ricorrenza (anniversary, rebound, rebound effect), ricomparsa, riapparizione. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 再燃 (resuscitation, revival), 回帰 (recursion, revolution). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | さいね" (resuscitation, revival), かいき (a type of thin thread, bizarre, buying mood, death anniversary, foundation of a temple, laying a foundation, outrageous, recovery, recursion, revolution, session, society by-laws, strange, total eclipse, totality, weird, wonderful). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 재발 (Recurring). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | aahaghyrt (recur). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ecurrenceray retorno (carriage return, profit, regress, return, rolled back), regresso (comeback, regress, regression, return), referência (concern, mention, reference), reaparecimento (reappearance, recrudescence), ocorrência periódica. (various references) revenire (come back, home, return, troll), repetare (encore, iteration, monotone, reiteration, repetition), recidivã (set back), reîntoarcere (repair, return). (various references) повторение (iterance, iteration, reduplication, rehash, rehearsal, reiteration, relapse, repeat, repetition, switchback). (various references) vraćanje (backtrack, refund, rehabilitation, rendering, requital, return). (various references) reaparición (reappearance, return). (various references) upprepande (reiteration, reiterative). (various references) yinelenme (repetition), tekrar sözkonusu etme, tekrar (afresh, again, all over, all over again, anew, encore, once more, over, over again, re-, recap, recapitulation, reiteration, repeat, repetition, review), tekerrür (iteration), nüksetme (return), başa dönme. (various references) рецидив (recidivism, recrudescence, relapse), повернення (backsliding, comeback, reappearance, redemption, regress, reimbursement, reinforcement, restitution, resumption, retrieval, return). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "recurrence": recurrences. (additional references) | |
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"Recurrence" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: demurrence, reccurence, reccurrence, recurence, recurrance, reocurrence, resurence, reuerence. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "recurrence" (pronounced riker"uns or rēker"uns) |
| 5 | -k er" u n s | concurrence, occurrence. |
| 4 | -er" u n s | coinsurance, deterrence, transference. |
| 3 | -u n s | abeyance, abhorrence, absence, abstinence, abundance, acceptance, accordance, acquaintance, acquiescence, adherence, admirations, admittance, adolescence, affluence, allegiance, alliance, allowance, ambiance, ambience, ambivalence, ambulance, annoyance, appearance, appliance, arrogance, ascendance, assistance, assurance, attendance, audience, avoidance, balance, belligerence, beneficence, benevolence, bioscience, brilliance, cadence, capacitance, chrominance, circumference, clairvoyance, Clarence, clearance, coexistence, cognizance, coherence, coincidence, comeuppance, competence, compliance, condolence, conference, confidence, confluence, conformance, congruence, connivance, conscience, consequence, consistence, continuance, contrivance, convalescence, convenience, convergence, conveyance, correspondence, countenance, counterbalance, counterintelligence, credence, dalliance, decadence, Defeasance, deference, defiance, deliverance, dependence, deviance, difference, diligence, disallowance, disappearance, discontinuance, disobedience, dissidence, dissonance, distance, disturbance, divergence, dominance, ebullience, elegance, eloquence, emergence, eminence, endurance, entrance, equivalence, essence, evanescence, evidence, excellence, existence, expedience, experience, extravagance, exuberance, flamboyance, Florence, forbearance, fragrance, furtherance, governance, grievance, guidance, hindrance, ignorance, imbalance, immanence, imminence, impatience, impedance, importance, impotence, imprudence, inadvertence, incidence, incoherence, incompetence, incontinence, inconvenience, independence, indifference, inductance, indulgence, inexperience, inference, influence, inheritance, innocence, insignificance, insistence, insolence, instance, insurance, intelligence, interdependence, interference, intolerance, intransigence, invariance, irrelevance, irreverence, issuance, jurisprudence, licence, license, luminance, luminescence, maintenance, malfeasance, negligence, neuroscience, noncompliance, noninterference, nonviolence, nuisance, obedience, observance, obsolescence, omnipotence, omnipresence, opulence, ordinance, Ordnance, overabundance, overconfidence, overdependence, overreliance, parlance, patience, penance, performance, permanence, persecutions, perseverance, persistence, pestilence, petulance, phosphorescence, pittance, precedence, predominance, preeminence, preference, preponderance, prescience, presence, prevalence, prominence, protuberance, provenance, Providence, province, prudence, pseudoscience, quintessence, radiance, reappearance, reassurance, recalcitrance, recognizance, reconnaissance, reemergence, reference, reinspections, reinsurance, relevance, reliance, reluctance, remembrance, reminiscence, remittance, repentance, resemblance, residence, resilience, resistance, resonance, resurgence, reticence, reverence, riddance, science, semblance, senescence, sentence, sequence, severance, significance, silence, submergence, subservience, subsidence, subsistence, substance, surveillance, sustenance, teleconference, temperance, tolerance, transcendence, transience, turbulence, unbalance, utterance, Valence, variance, vehemence, vengeance, videoconference, vigilance, violence, virulence. |
| 5 | -k er" u n s | concurrence, occurrence. |
| 4 | -er" u n s | coinsurance, deterrence, transference. |
| 3 | -u n s | abeyance, abhorrence, absence, abstinence, abundance, acceptance, accordance, acquaintance, acquiescence, adherence, admirations, admittance, adolescence, affluence, allegiance, alliance, allowance, ambiance, ambience, ambivalence, ambulance, annoyance, appearance, appliance, arrogance, ascendance, assistance, assurance, attendance, audience, avoidance, balance, belligerence, beneficence, benevolence, bioscience, brilliance, cadence, capacitance, chrominance, circumference, clairvoyance, Clarence, clearance, coexistence, cognizance, coherence, coincidence, comeuppance, competence, compliance, condolence, conference, confidence, confluence, conformance, congruence, connivance, conscience, consequence, consistence, continuance, contrivance, convalescence, convenience, convergence, conveyance, correspondence, countenance, counterbalance, counterintelligence, credence, dalliance, decadence, Defeasance, deference, defiance, deliverance, dependence, deviance, difference, diligence, disallowance, disappearance, discontinuance, disobedience, dissidence, dissonance, distance, disturbance, divergence, dominance, ebullience, elegance, eloquence, emergence, eminence, endurance, entrance, equivalence, essence, evanescence, evidence, excellence, existence, expedience, experience, extravagance, exuberance, flamboyance, Florence, forbearance, fragrance, furtherance, governance, grievance, guidance, hindrance, ignorance, imbalance, immanence, imminence, impatience, impedance, importance, impotence, imprudence, inadvertence, incidence, incoherence, incompetence, incontinence, inconvenience, independence, indifference, inductance, indulgence, inexperience, inference, influence, inheritance, innocence, insignificance, insistence, insolence, instance, insurance, intelligence, interdependence, interference, intolerance, intransigence, invariance, irrelevance, irreverence, issuance, jurisprudence, licence, license, luminance, luminescence, maintenance, malfeasance, negligence, neuroscience, noncompliance, noninterference, nonviolence, nuisance, obedience, observance, obsolescence, omnipotence, omnipresence, opulence, ordinance, Ordnance, overabundance, overconfidence, overdependence, overreliance, parlance, patience, penance, performance, permanence, persecutions, perseverance, persistence, pestilence, petulance, phosphorescence, pittance, precedence, predominance, preeminence, preference, preponderance, prescience, presence, prevalence, prominence, protuberance, provenance, Providence, province, prudence, pseudoscience, quintessence, radiance, reappearance, reassurance, recalcitrance, recognizance, reconnaissance, reemergence, reference, reinspections, reinsurance, relevance, reliance, reluctance, remembrance, reminiscence, remittance, repentance, resemblance, residence, resilience, resistance, resonance, resurgence, reticence, reverence, riddance, science, semblance, senescence, sentence, sequence, severance, significance, silence, submergence, subservience, subsidence, subsistence, substance, surveillance, sustenance, teleconference, temperance, tolerance, transcendence, transience, turbulence, unbalance, utterance, Valence, variance, vehemence, vengeance, videoconference, vigilance, violence, virulence. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-e-e-e-n-r-r-r-u" | |
-5 letters: curer, enure, recce, recur, rerun. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-e-e-e-n-r-r-r-u" | |
+1 letter: recurrences. | |
+2 letters: reoccurrence. | |
+3 letters: reoccurrences. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 65 63 75 72 72 65 6E 63 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. . -.-. ..- .-. .-. . -. -.-. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100101 01100011 01110101 01110010 01110010 01100101 01101110 01100011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R e c u r r e n c e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0065 0063 0075 0072 0072 0065 006E 0063 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)52716987848471806971 |
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