Recurrent

Word RECURRENT
Character 9
Hyphenation re cur rent
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Definitions and meanings of "Recurrent"

What do we mean by recurrent?

Occurring or appearing again or repeatedly. adjective

Turning in a reverse direction. Used of blood vessels and nerves. adjective

In paleontology, reappearing without essential change in organic composition: used of faunas which reappear after their first disappearance from a given geological section, or of a species which thus returns after departure. The conception of recurrent faunas implies the fact of migration and temporary absence from a given geographical province with subsequent return thereto.

A recurrent verse. noun

Recurring; returning from time to time; reappearing; repeated: as, recurrent pains of a disease.

In crystallography, noting a crystal which exhibits an oscillatory combination of two sets of planes. See oscillatory.

In anatomy, turned back in its course, and running in a direction the opposite of its former one: specifically noting the inferior laryngeal branch of the pneumogastric. See the following phrases.

In entomology, turning back toward the base: as, a recurrent process.

A branch which is more or less turned toward the base of the wing, in a direction contrary to the nervure from which it arises. Many of these recurrent nervures are distinguished.

A vein of the wing which, after running toward the apex, is bent or curved back toward the base, as in many Coleoptera.

The anterior, a larger branch, arising just behind the perforation of the Interosseous membrane, and anastomosing with the lower articular popliteal arteries.

The posterior, arising a little lower than the anterior (though they often have a common origin), and communicating with the inferior profunda, the anastomotic, and posterior interosseous recurrent.

Any recurrent nerve or artery. noun

Returning from time to time; recurring. adjective

Running back toward its origin. adjective

See Relapsing fever, under Relapsing. adjective

The pulse beat which appears (when the radial artery is compressed at the wrist) on the distal side of the point of pressure through the arteries of the palm of the hand. adjective

The sensibility manifested by the anterior, or motor, roots of the spinal cord (their stimulation causing pain) owing to the presence of sensory fibers from the corresponding sensory or posterior roots. adjective

Recurring time after time. adjective

Non-transient. adjective

Recurring; happening time after time.

(stochastic processes, of a state) Non-transient.

Running back toward its origin.

Turned back toward the base.

See recurrence. Urban Dictionary

A theorem in which for example we have an apple inside a box with pure vacuum the apple would have become pure dust and in enough time the apples dust would have reformed again in the original apple with the same taste and everything Urban Dictionary

A recurrent neural network is a feedforward neural network with short term memory. Urban Dictionary

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The word "recurrent" in example sentences

The world is endlessly re-mapped and re-named, with new rules and rulers in recurrent holocausts. ❋ Leanne Goebel (2010)

And all the while the hair of his neck and shoulders bristled in recurrent waves of ferocity and wrath. ❋ Unknown (2010)

This kind of internal loop is called a recurrent net see Figure 6. ❋ Michael Chorost (2011)

The wind, which had lulled after the rain, had risen in recurrent gusts to storm violence. ❋ Unknown (2010)

With nose serrulated by continuous spasms, hair bristling in recurrent waves, tongue whipping out like a red snake and whipping back again, ears flattened down, eyes gleaming hatred, lips wrinkled back, and fangs exposed and dripping, he could compel a pause on the part of almost any assailant. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The hair on their backs and shoulders bristled in recurrent waves of anger, and the thin lips writhed and lifted into ugly wrinkles, exposing the flesh-tearing fangs, cruel and menacing. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Between these two accounts of the Kantian legacies of the aesthetic — or what one might call the Kantian insistence — Karen Swann discerns and examines a certain recurrent "shape" in Shelley's poetry, "a beautiful, slumbering human form" (1). ❋ Unknown (2005)

But to dismiss speculation despairingly as mass madness which descends the public in recurrent waves, and to insist that such mob folly is incurable, must remind one of the medievel attitude of despair toward the great plagues that then raged through Europe. ❋ Unknown (1969)

He only learns in recurrent weariness and despair that he is not this, not that. ❋ Unknown (1958)

With nose serrulated by continuous spasms, hair bristling in recurrent waves, tongue whipping out like a red snake and whipping back again, ears flattened down, eyes gleaming hatred, lips wrinkled back, and fangs exposed and dripping, he could compel ❋ Unknown (1906)

f(n) = f(n-1) + f(n-2) a [recurrence]. ❋ Sunnzzzzzz (2009)

the [poincare recurrence] of our [universe] is 10^10^10^10^2.[08] ❋ SmashHitGamuh (2023)

[Programmer] 1: Have you upgraded your [neural network] to a [recurrent neural network]? Programmer 2: Yes, it's no longer a feedforward neural network. Programmer 3: [Recurrent neural network]? Why not a long short term memory? Programmer 2: I'll upgrade it again. ❋ PkmnQ (2017)

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