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recur

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Verb (usu participle)
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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Verb recur has 3 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

recurv. i. [L. recurrere; pref. re- re- + currere to run. See Current.].
  •  To come back; to return again or repeatedly; to come again to mind.  [1913 Webster]
    "When any word has been used to signify an idea, the old idea will recur in the mind when the word is heard."  [1913 Webster]
  •  To occur at a stated interval, or according to some regular rule; as, the fever will recur to-night.  [1913 Webster]
  •  To resort; to have recourse; to go for help.  [1913 Webster]
    "If, to avoid succession in eternal existence, they recur to the “punctum stans” of the schools, they will thereby very little help us to a more positive idea of infinite duration."  [1913 Webster]
Recurring decimal (Math.), a circulating decimal. See under Decimal. -- Recurring series (Math.), an algebraic series in which the coefficients of the several terms can be expressed by means of certain preceding coefficients and constants in one uniform manner.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

recur, v.intr. (recurred, recurring)
1 occur again; be repeated.
2 (of a thought, idea, etc.) come back to one's mind.
3 (foll. by to) go back in thought or speech.

Idiom
recurring decimal a decimal fraction in which the same figures are repeated indefinitely.
Etymology
L recurrere recurs- (as RE-, currere run)

THESAURUS

recur

alternate, be here again, circle, come again, come and go, come around, come back, come round, come round again, come up again, continue, cycle, echo, go back, intermit, keep coming, occur often, oscillate, pulsate, pulse, react, reappear, reoccur, repeat, resound, resume, return, return to mind, reverberate, revert, revolve, roll around, rotate, turn, undulate, vibrate, wheel, wheel around

ROGET THESAURUS

recur

Repetition

VB repeat, iterate, reiterate, reproduce, echo, reecho, drum, harp upon, battologize, hammer, redouble, recur, revert, return, reappear, recurse, renew, rehearse, do over again, say over again, ring the changes on, harp on the same string, din in the ear, drum in the ear, conjugate in all its moods tenses and inflexions, begin again, go over the same ground, go the same round, never hear the last of, resume, return to, recapitulate, reword.

Frequency

VB recur, do nothing but, keep, keep on.

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