Definitions for recurrence

recurrence re·cur·rence

Spelling: [ri-kur-uh ns, -kuhr-]
IPA: /rɪˈkɜr əns, -ˈkʌr-/

Recurrence is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 77 anagrams from letters in recurrence (cceeenrrru).

Definitions for recurrence

noun

  1. an act or instance of recurring.
  2. return to a previous condition, habit, subject, etc.
  3. recourse.

Origin of recurrence

First recorded in 1640-50; recur + -ence

Examples for recurrence

There is an old Jewish joke about the recurrence of the biblical flood.

That was 15 years ago, and there has been no recurrence of the trouble.

I had my peep and then it passed, nor have I had a recurrence of a similar experience.

Worse, the recurrence of this whiny, unsympathetic caricature in a writer's work makes an unpleasant statement about the writer.

To prevent a recurrence of the accident, I keep his hoof protected by leathers.

He attributed it to a recurrence of her thoughts to her horrible past.

On its recurrence another subject is selected and the process repeated.

The 91-year-old husband of Queen Elizabeth II was rushed to hospital on Wednesday with a recurrence of the infection.

That it is a recurrence to a long-disused habit I can scarcely doubt.

It is in this recurrence that we found some of our opposition to the conventional explanation.

Word Value for recurrence
Scrable

14

Words with friends

18

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