recur : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: recur	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
recur v happen or occur again; "This is a recurring story" [syn: recur, repeat] return in thought or speech to something Synonym(s): recur, go back have recourse to; "The government resorted to rationing meat" Synonym(s): fall back, resort, recur
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Recur \Recur"\ (r?k?r"), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Recurred} (-k?rd"); p. pr. & vb. n. {Recurring}.] [L. recurrere; pref. re- re- + currere to run. See {Current}.] 1. To come back; to return again or repeatedly; to come again to mind. When any word has been used to signify an idea, the old idea will recur in the mind when the word is heard. --I. Watts. 2. To occur at a stated interval, or according to some regular rule; as, the fever will recur to-night. 3. To resort; to have recourse; to go for help. If, to avoid succession in eternal existence, they recur to the [bd]punctum stans[b8] of the schools, they will thereby very little help us to a more positive idea of infinite duration. --Locke. {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.