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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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6 words match “RECURRENT”

RECURRENT a. 2 definitions
Returning from time to time; recurring; as, recurrent pains.
NONRECURRENT a.
Not recurring.
INTERMITTENT a.
Coming and going at intervals; alternating; recurrent; periodic; as, an intermittent fever. Boyle. Intermittent fever (Med.), a disease with fever which recurs at certain intervals; -- applied particularly to fever and ague. See Fever. -- Intermittent gearing (Mach.), gearing which receives, or produces, intermittent…
NONRECURRING a.
Nonrecurrent.
PERIODICITY n.
The quality or state of being periodical, or regularly recurrent; as, the periodicity in the vital phenomena of plants. Henfrey.
RECURRENCE; RECURRENCY n.
The act of recurring, or state of being recurrent; return; resort; recourse. I shall insensibly go on from a rare to a frequent recurrence to the dangerous preparations. I. Taylor.