recurring

Happening or occurring frequently, with repetition.

Adjective

  1. Happening or occurring frequently, with repetition.
    • He has recurring asthma attacks.
    • Revenge is a recurring theme in this novel.
  2. Of a decimal: having a set of digits that is repeated indefinitely.
    • Every rational number can be written as either a terminating decimal or a recurring decimal.

Forms

more recurring most recurring

Synonyms

recurrent repetitive

Derived

nonrecurring recurringly unrecurring

Noun

  1. A recurrence; a coming round again.
    • Winter, here, is a dimension of all reality, not one-fourth of the spiritual year's endless recurrings. - 2009, Martin E. Marty, A Cry of Absence: Reflections for the Winter of the Heart, page 21:

Forms

recurrings

Synonyms

reiteration repeat

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of recur