Associations to the word «Recurrence»

Wiktionary

RECURRENCE, noun. Return or reversion to a certain state.
RECURRENCE, noun. The instance of recurring; frequent occurrence.
RECURRENCE, noun. A return of symptoms as part of the natural progress of a disease.
RECURRENCE, noun. Recourse.
RECURRENCE RELATION, noun. (mathematics) an equation that recursively defines a sequence; each term of the sequence is defined as a function of the preceding terms.

Dictionary definition

RECURRENCE, noun. Happening again (especially at regular intervals); "the return of spring".

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky